Jesse Tahirali, CTVNews.ca
Published Sunday, December 28, 2014 7:05PM EST
Published Sunday, December 28, 2014 7:05PM EST
Trying to make money with a drone can be costly, as one Montreal man recently found out.
Julien Gramigna was slapped with a $1,000 fine for using his unmanned aircraft to take a video of a house for sale last June.
Though he had permission from the homeowner and the real estate agent, Transport Canada wasn’t happy with the fly-by. According to the government, Gramigna didn’t have permission to operate the aircraft for commercial purposes.
Read more: http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/drone-flyover-lands-montreal-man-1-000-fine-1.2164432#ixzz3NG9xoJvH
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Seems like the current Canadian UAS regulation is primarily aimed at covering FAA bureaucrats asses. Any incident occuring will constitute a regulations breach, hence their asses are clear; "Not our fault - he broke the law!"
I would love to propose that everyone file daily SFOC, but that would most likely make it impossible to get one when you actually need it.
He is lucky he didn't have a pilots license TBH, transport Canada would have come down on him harder.
Sean, yep. My club field is 500m from down, and they fly 1/3rd scale gassers. Yet, I could not fly an H107 for pay at the same field.
John, yes that would be the hope. Unfortunately we have a terrible track record in Canada for rationalization of regualtions. For example, we have pretty strict environmental rules for air emissions from factories. It used to be something that could be undertaken by any engineer willing to put in the effort. However, since an application was required for any minor change to a factory, they became backlogged. Up to a year for approval, and you were supposed to seek approval for any little thing.
So they tried to revamp it, make it easier. They actually made it harder. Now you have to hire a specialist. And the backlog is 2 years.
F1P, if only it were that easy. All of populated Canada would be a no-fly zone now. Even sparsely populated areas. It's pretty hard to get 9km away from any instance of 2 or more buildings grouped together.
https://www.mapbox.com/blog/dont-fly-here/
It is funny, here in the greater Vancouver Area there are number of municiply authorised R/C flying parks and none of them meet the Transport Canada Regulations.
Rob, you can hope they will be so swamped with SFOC applications that they suddenly start to see the need for a simplified process.
That's exactly what happened in my country. Previously you had to apply using the same process as an commercial airline, with tons of papers on safety procedures, equipment certificates etc.
But when the workload went from a handful of applications a year to well, a lot more.. Then suddenly there was room for a MUCH simplified small UAS applications process. Basically a one time thing that is totally manageable and gives you right to operate commercially under 400ft and LOS. And a 3-4 day application process to apply for flights in restricted airspace if need be. This works out great, since most places you should not fly without careful planning (like in a city for example) are restricted airspace.
In UK and South Africa and possibly elsewhere areas in yellow in air charts are built up areas.
I know that the rules are and will be a work in progress for some time. Unfortunately as long as we see reports of "flyaways" here and on other sites, they are going to be extra cautious.
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