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What if I fly a helicopter 10 feet off the ground, in the area of the park. Is that 'over' or 'through'?
by patmcc 3y ago
What if I fly a helicopter 10 feet off the ground, in the area of the park. Is that 'over' or 'through'?
- Qwertious 3y agoGiven that a helicopter at that speed is a clear hazard to anyone below it and will blow a person below it off their feet, and could easily be pushed around or into the ground at any time (sudden gusts of winds do happen, although I have no real experience with helicopters so I may be wrong on some specifics), that is through. "the park" includes not only the ground, but also a certain area above the ground - otherwise someone riding a bike through the park wouldn't be in the park (as they are not touching the ground) but their bike would be. That would be absurd.
- patmcc 3y agoOk. What about 20ft off the ground? 50? 100? 200? 350? You see the issue, yah?
- notyoutube 3y agoGiven that the whole point of the website and the discussion is the fuzziness that any such rule implies, I'm pretty sure they _do_ see the point, but decided to play the interpretation game anyway. What's your point?
- kazinator 3y agoLet's say we imagine a dome over the park which is geometrically a convex hull that encloses all the tree tops. Everything in that dome is in the park.
- dahart 3y agoYour list of altitudes didn’t go high enough to change the answer. ;) Drones (in the US and the UK) must be limited to 400ft/120m and are still considered “in” the airspace of the ground they’re over. Commercial aircraft flying at 35,000ft AGL are not considered to be in the airspace of a specific park or private property when over the U.S. (and most of the world, I suspect), but they are considered to be inside the country’s airspace, since park & private property airspace has a limited ceiling, but country airspace extends up to space.
- fragmede 3y agoWhat if it's using antigravity technology or magic to hover instead, posing no threat to the people below due to wind.
- ckolkey 3y agoThrough, no question. If someone in the park is able to interact with it, you're in it.
- fragmede 3y agoWhat if it is a digital vehicle? If we're all wearing AR glasses, and can interact with it, is it there?
- flaminHotSpeedo 3y agoDepends on how you word the question. If you say the helicopter is flying 10 feet over the park, by the rules of this game it's objectively not a violation. If you say it's 10 feet above the ground inside the park, objectively a violation.
- dahart 3y agoIn the U.S., by FAA law, flying a helicopter 10 feet off the ground in a public park is both over the ground and through (or “in”) the park. There’s no either-or.