Comment by Harry on September 7, 2012 at 3:04pm

Man, I love Beligian Ales but I dont think I'd want to live there if the drone police are gonna bust me for hovering in the garden.

Developer Comment by John Arne Birkeland on September 7, 2012 at 3:05pm

Have you ever driven faster then the speed limit? People break rules and laws every day. Especially inconsequent and out of touch ones. it is almost impossible not to, in today's society.

This will only cause problems for commercial usage.

Comment by Harry on September 7, 2012 at 4:53pm

That is a good point, of course.  It'll end up too expensive and prohibitive to make a buck with a simple drone.  Pity, with all the unemployment, that people cant pull themselves up by providing a useful service that typically has nothng to do with spying on people.  Governments are the ones looking to peep.

Comment by Superwalloon on September 7, 2012 at 11:22pm

Whatever law situation in Belgium, my country, has never prevented me from taking off from my garden or any field, shooting movies & stills everywhere I want. Yes obviously I do not use my hexa to break privacy rules "on purpose". In these last 2 years, I've been only requested once to land immediately and go away - the owner of the castle I was shooting from the air did not want it to happen - I didn't argue of course.

Last week I was shooting a video in a street for a real estate project against which the residents of that street wanted to fight. So not a problem either, as all of that street's residents *asked* me to shoot it for them. And with such agreement there is now law that stands.

Moderator Comment by Gary Mortimer on September 8, 2012 at 12:17am

In the long run its a good thing Europe is finally harmonizing. There are parts of the world where even testing UA would be illegal. Rules have to be put in place to regulate commercial use.

Comment by Perecastor on September 8, 2012 at 2:17am

@John  I'm agree with you but there's a little difference betwenn driving too fast ( and i love that ....) with a car and "just playing" with an "expensive toy" (all my friends says that about me :/ ) i think.

Comment by robert bouwens on September 9, 2012 at 2:20am

the rules are clear - there is way too much traffic in the air.

and quite a few people are violating the rules...

Comment by Superwalloon on September 9, 2012 at 3:07am

The simplest rule which makes the most sense is to simply get the approval from the owner of the land you are flying above. And the second rule is to use common sense, such as :

• don't fly next to GSM towers
• don't fly over railways
• don't fly over highways
• don't fly over your neighbour's garden to take still of her daugther in bikini

But our belgian rules like "you can only fly over an approved r/c club field" ? Naaaaaaaaaaaa.

Comment by robert bouwens on September 9, 2012 at 3:25am

>But our belgian rules like "you can only fly over an approved r/c club field"

this makes shure no problems are ahead.

you can call this an area where flying is allowd ;-)

now you have to find the spots...

Comment by Simone Chiaretta on September 10, 2012 at 1:03am

As always the problem I think is the "one law to rule them all" approach: I agree that fixed wings drones might fly so high and far from the takeoff position that can interfere with normal aircrafts, but multicopter only have a 10 min fly time, so it more unlikely that this will happen, and even more the toy drones (like the AR.Drone which everyone in the original document talks about but is shown in the image in the news).

Furthermore, areas where normal aircraft fly are already marked and you cannot fly there anyway.

That is if the problem was the air safety.

If the problem they try to address is privacy, why big tele lenses are still allowed since they make it possible to take stills of anything (and your not so close neighbor's daughter) from hundreds of meters?

I think this will turn out in nobody respecting this rule, unless they make it dead easy to ask for permissions for non commercial usage.

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