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Before today it was not a rules it was just basic guidelines, it was perfectly legal to fly close to buildings, or within 9km to airports, as long as you were not a danger to the aviation.
Very poorly and non-educated drafting of new rules and regulations for recreational drone enthusiasts.
Just a knee jerk reaction by those who have no clue when it comes to operation of these units. Basing their findings on exaggerated, unsubstantiated media reports regarding the amount of "incidents' - yes incidents not accidents.
Citing....."incidents relative to flying drones recreationally have increased by 3x since 2014" ----- that is just irresponsible hog wash when you don't take into consideration the exponential growth in drone ownership and recreational flying! Obviously the incident reporting will increase with regard to the number of drones in the air! No different that increased ground traffic will without doubt increase incident and accident reporting on same.
If they did the math on how many recreational drones there were in....2014 to 2017..... Vs....... pre 2014 then calculate and compare how many "reported incidents" relative to the number of drones over those two time frames.............I would bet the ratio of number or drones Vs reported incidents is no doubt higher but likely pretty insignificant.
They are imposing this now and will again review it in June/July 2017? What is that all about? With the kind of restrictions they have employed here now - the "incident" reporting is going to increase tremendously since hobbyists are going to fly sometimes without even realizing they are "breaking the law" (I know not law yet but...). Maybe that's the whole idea behind reviewing it in 3-4 months - more incidents for them to use against us.
Not impressed by the ever increasing "nanny state laws and regulations" that are just arbitrarily thrown out there - just because "they can"! Pathetic and a total embarrassment for Canada.