County Public vs County Private Property

[Schnauzergeek]

Here in Southern California (L.A. County in particular) it is not permitted to fly any UAV on county PUBLIC property.
An instructor in an aerial photography class advised us that although it may be forbidden to fly from county PUBLIC property, it IS permissible to fly from County Private property. For instance you can’t fly from a L.A. County Parking lot, but you CAN fly from a private residence 20 feet away from that lot. (You just better know the owner and get permission).
Is there anyone here that can verify for certain that this is true and provide documented proof?

 

[Just Mark]

Here in Southern California (L.A. County in particular) it is not permitted to fly any UAV on county PUBLIC property.
An instructor in an aerial photography class advised us that although it may be forbidden to fly from county PUBLIC property, it IS permissible to fly from County Private property. For instance you can’t fly from a L.A. County Parking lot, but you CAN fly from a private residence 20 feet away from that lot. (You just better know the owner and get permission).
Is there anyone here that can verify for certain that this is true and provide documented proof?

You will have to get a copy of the municipal codes for L.A. County. Most likely they will say something about not operating aircraft from public land, and if it is anything at all like up here in Marin County north of San Francisco, you are supposed to have WRITTEN permission from the owner of private property to operate your drone.

Remember that County Public Property would be any street, park, beach, sidewalk in any area of unincorporated LA County. See the pink shaded areas on this map:

http://ceo.lacounty.gov/forms/lacmap.pdf

The white areas are the cities and they might (or might not) allow flying drones from their public land. I would imagine most cities WOULDN'T allow it, but some might have certain areas designated to operate from. Probably the law is similar; you might be able to operate a drone from private property with permission of the owner in a particular municipality.

LA County seems like a tough place to fly. There are a LOT of airports and there is a LOT of controlled airspace starting at the surface in the whole LA / OC / SD corridor.

One more thing: Check with your state parks and national parks because they might or might not allow you to operate a drone in them.