Comment by volk45
13 hours ago
PA restricts drone take/off and landing to only 6 parks in the whole state.
So for example, Washington’s crossing state park with its 3.7thousand acres, restricts drone/take off and landing by state law.
I’ve politely reached out to the park, and being a federally licensed commercial pilot with insurance coverage doesn’t pry that jar open.
The airspace classification is the limit, so I can fly over as much as I want - problem is all surrounding property is privately owned and I need to maintain 3 statue miles of visual line of site.
^ All of the above makes it impossible to capture up close aerial imagery of colonial period houses and barns for photogrammetry.
Smaller single structure county owned properties only hand out photography permits if events are being held, or the photography/videography is associated with a production company.
I may need to expand my municipal and county outreach further away from the county I reside in. Which is a shame since there are some beautiful historically preserved farmlands and structures in my home county.
A lot of people, myself included, find quadrotor drones in peaceful natural settings to be incredibly annoying. If anyone who isn't aware of the rules sees you breaking them, they will assume that they can do it too and will gleefully bring their loudest, most annoying quadrotor everywhere they can because "they saw someone else do it once." It also opens the floodgates to all kinds of permitting and other process questions for different kinds of activities and they have to justify why they let you do it but not someone else.
Tried approaching any of the adjacent private landowners, and seen if some of them are either sympathetic to your cause and/or the type who'd love a chance to stick a finger to the relevant authorities?