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There's a minimum flight altitudes over populated areas of 1000ft in the US. https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/14/91.119 https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/tex
by chinathrow 5y ago
There's a minimum flight altitudes over populated areas of 1000ft in the US.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/14/91.119 https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/14/91.119
- upofadown 5y agoIf it counted as not a "congested area" than that drops to 500 feet.
- _moof 5y agoIt's a city. It's congested. Here's a fun (?) fact: the FAA explicitly refuses to define the term "congested." In one case, they actually claimed that an area with one person was congested. Not sure if that held up on appeal. In any event, they've stated their desire to retain "enforcement flexibility" which, to me, is kinda BS. I've flown over a lot of areas where it wasn't obvious whether it counted as congested or not, and that 500' made a difference. (Next to a mountain, for example.) This area, though, is definitely congested.
- mwint 5y agoDo you have a link to that case? Sounds really interesting.