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New FAA drone rules restrict flying near 10 major US landmarks

Published Sep 29, 2017 | Brittany Hillen

The FAA has released a new set of drone rules that restrict UAV flight near 10 major Department of Interior landmarks in the United States, including the Statue of Liberty, Mount Rushmore, and the Hoover Dam.

According to the FAA, it has decided to exercise its authority under Code of Federal Regulations Title 14 § 99.7 to establish these new restrictions after receiving multiple requests from both law enforcement and national security agencies. Starting October 5th, when these new rules go live, drone owners will no longer be allowed to fly their drones within 400ft of the following 10 monuments:

Statue of Liberty National Monument, New York, NY
Boston National Historical Park (U.S.S. Constitution), Boston, MA
Independence National Historical Park, Philadelphia, PA
Folsom Dam; Folsom, CA
Glen Canyon Dam; Lake Powell, AZ
Grand Coulee Dam; Grand Coulee, WA
Hoover Dam; Boulder City, NV
Jefferson National Expansion Memorial; St. Louis, MO
Mount Rushmore National Memorial; Keystone, SD
Shasta Dam; Shasta Lake, CA

Anyone who violates these new rules could face criminal and/or civil penalties. The FAA says that there are "a few exceptions" to the restriction, though it doesn't specify what they are, instead saying that the drone operator has to coordinate their plan with the FAA and/or the landmark site specifically if they wish to fly within 400ft of the above landmarks.

Drone operators can view a full list of restricted airspace on the FAA's website.

Via: sUAS News

Tags: drone-news, drones, faa, regulations

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John Koch

This is not a severe restriction at all. 400' is too close to photograph the entirety of any of these very large structures, even with a wide-angle lens. Greater distance is required to render any perspective or majesty. One could crop or zoom for details. But none of this matters if the spaces around the landmarks prohibit drone launches. Liberty State Park, adjacent to the Statue of Liberty, allows no drones.

The best "landmarks" should be creative shots of little known or overlooked places that are not on any short lists. The trouble is that viewers prefer the iconic and recognizable. Selfie shots with iconic backgrounds take the prize.

Oct 2, 2017permalink

Trundling

Those who give up (the statue of) liberty for (national) security deserve neither.

Oct 1, 2017*permalink

Ed Ingold

Pithy, but inappropriate. How, exactly, is this a Constitutional issue?

Oct 1, 2017permalink

Sine_Nomine

For those who find this an unnecessary restriction, I find it ironic that scrolling thru the article history here, I find "Master drone pilot captures video while flying around, inside, and under a moving train" with a subtitle mentioning "highly illegal" posted on 11/25. Many (most?) laws are a restriction of freedom in some sense, to protect society from itself. We cannot drive our cars as fast as we'd like because some people drive too fast and kill themselves and others. And some people abuse drones. About a year ago there was a news item about a baby losing an eye to a drone blade. Civilization has a history of creating technology before society as a whole is mature enough to use it. These laws protect the many from the few. I don't like restrictions on freedom more than anyone else, but we must live under a common set of laws to function as a society.

Oct 1, 2017permalink

Morris Trichon

Well Thought out and said!

Oct 2, 2017permalink

Najinsky

...because who would want to look at a landmark, right?

Reminds me of that Swiss village no one had heard of that banned photography because the village was too photogenic.

Oct 1, 2017*permalink

brn

The Swiss village example was nothing more than a clever marketing ploy.

Oct 1, 2017permalink

Mike CH

... and it's still working. Just think about it :-)

Oct 3, 2017permalink

Najinsky

CH? Isn't that the abbreviation for, er, Switzerland? ;)

Oct 3, 2017permalink

Mike CH

Its the abbreviation of the Latin name for Switzerland - Confederatio Helvetica - also the ISO 2-character data code for Switzerland, yes.

And, no, I was not involved in that - rather stupid - stunt :-)

Oct 3, 2017permalink

straylightrun

This is a good thing. We dont need any more self entitled American videographers/photographers being obnoxiously annoying and loud and putting people in danger flying things they dont know how to full control.

Oct 1, 2017permalink

davids8560

All this drone talk is likely to go over most people's heads.

Sep 30, 2017permalink

Najinsky

Flies in the face of all that dynamic range talk.

Oct 1, 2017permalink

davids8560

Drones might be able to take photography to new heights.

Oct 1, 2017permalink

(unknown member)

Look already everyday a swarm of tourist helicopters swarm around the statue of liberty. I was shooting out west a few months ago and saw someone flying a drone directly above and into hundreds of birds in a wildlife refuge. I can see that they are cool, fun toys but I am totally in favor of very strict regulations especially in crowded air spaces and near refuges. We are already overwhelmed by an amazing amount of noise and light pollution.

Sep 30, 2017permalink

Quisquis

I really push for free drone use...

And this is a great restriction. 400 feet is a perfectly reasonable restriction around these places.

Sep 30, 2017permalink

Hugo600si

What I can’t follow with these rules stating security/terrorists is that a terrorist may perhaps decide to break this rule... or will they have devices to take the drones down? Without such infrastructure for take-downs I don’t see the national safety aspect.

That said, I am pleased there would be less noise, and no need to photoshop out all those drones when photographing these sites, if popularity keeps going up it would become problematic at some point.

Sep 30, 2017permalink

Sharlin

The point is, of course, making the environment less target-rich. Now they have less false positives to worry about —first of all there will be fewer drones, and the pilots of those drones that do enter the perimeter are breaking the law, so appropriate measures can be taken even if they turn out not to have nefarious intents.

Sep 30, 2017permalink

Hugo600si

Thanks Sharlin, makes sense

Sep 30, 2017permalink

davids8560

Is it just the Statue of Liberty, or any representation of the Statue of Liberty, anywhere we might encounter one?

Sep 30, 2017*permalink

MikeFairbanks

That's an extensive list of dam places.

Sep 29, 2017*permalink

falconeyes

The tone on DPR will change entirely.
Now, only a minority of photographers fly drones. By the interest I receive from fellow photographers from my Spark, I'd guess it won't be long to invert.

And then a "photography ban" for US landmarks will trigger an upcry from citizens. It is hard to believe that the US has turned into a no freedom society this much already ...

Sep 29, 2017permalink

Vik2012

Why would restrictions on flying devices in close proximity to vulnerable structures, or potential targets of attack, equate to a general "photography ban"?

Photography has been restricted on many types of property for years and it didn't result in "an 'upcry' from citizens".

Tripods are much more common in a photographer's kit than drones will ever be, and they are also restricted (for other reasons). People can and do adjust.

As for freedoms... There are usually different ways you can look at those.

For example, I prefer the freedom to fly with minimal risk of a terrorist bringing down my plane in exchange for the removal of my freedom to walk on to the plane without comprehensive security checks and restrictions.

Sep 29, 2017*permalink

KrisAK

In the US, driving is considered a privilege, not a right. You pretty much need a car in order to have a job (in most places); yet it's tightly regulated, with all sorts of rules for what constitutes a road-worthy vehicle, and if you screw up enough, you lose the privilege entirely. Yet for some reason with think the operation of a drones should be immune to similar rules, and is somehow emblematic of a Constitutionally protected "freedom."

I don't understand that logic.

Sep 30, 2017*permalink

Toni Salmonelli

I think the Ban is not (only) about protecting the monuments itself but also for the protection of the tourists. Remember, those are all pretty crowded places.

Sep 30, 2017permalink

falconeyes

I guess the distribution of Likes answers my last question ...

Oct 4, 2017permalink

KrisAK

I get what you're saying. But I think using drones as an exemplifier of "Freedom" is dubious. If you made a Venn diagram, the people who are fervently pro-drone would be in the same segment as those who buy performance exhaust systems for their Camry, or support open-burning of lawn waste, or keep dogs tied to a post in their back yard.

I think adopting an easy iconography for "Freedom" is ultimately harmful to the concept itself. Witness the frothing at the mouth some people exhibit when someone else burns a flag.

Oct 4, 2017*permalink

falconeyes

@KrisAK, you may be correct. My point actually was that this is going to change, with new technology I see the average photographer of today becoming a drone operator. Or the average camera becoming a drone, if you like.

What I was going to say is that all these "authorities" (air space, park, county, ... you name it) which exist in the US which all believe that they all can individually ban drones or sell permits for, must be against some higher principle in any meaningful law system.

I remember some US train station "authorities" which tried to ban photography in their stations. And it turned out to be illegal because it was considered public space.

If too many parties are in a rally to forbid something, my instinct for freedom gets triggered ...

Oct 4, 2017*permalink

fmaxwell

It remains to be seen whether this will withstand a court challenge. Section 336 of the FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012 states that the “Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration may not promulgate any rule or regulation regarding a model aircraft, or an aircraft being developed as a model aircraft.”

Sep 29, 2017permalink

Vik2012

I believe you are correct, even though those rules were updated in 2016 by the FAA.

In May of this year, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled in favor of Maryland attorney John Taylor, a drone hobbyist, in his action against the FAA's new rules on registration.

It appears that this applies to recreational use only, and not commercial use of those drones.

Sep 29, 2017*permalink

AlephNull

Drones aren't model aircraft. A model aircraft is a reduced-size copy of something, like a Cessna. Drones aren't models of fullsize aircraft - they are a new class of aircraft.

Oct 1, 2017permalink

fmaxwell

@AlephNull, I've been flying RC models for many years, so it's a subject that I know well. Some RC model aircraft are scale models of full-size planes and others are original designs for which no full-size counterpart exists.

A drone is any unmanned remotely or robotically piloted aircraft. You aren't exempt from the FAA no-drone-zone rules simply because you are flying an accurate scale model of a Bell Huey Cobra or a WWI Nieuport 11.

I recommend that you read this article entitled "FAA Shuts Down All Model Airplane And Drone Clubs Near Washington DC":

https://www.popsci.com/faa-shuts-down-all-model-airplane-clubs-near-washington-dc

Oct 1, 2017permalink

rbach44

Personal anecdote:

I was enjoying local park here in NYC this summer when someone started flying a drone in the middle of said park. Someone with a baby politely told the operator that he really prefers that they don’t fly it over his baby’s head. An argument ensued, someone cried.

I’m not sure exactly what my point was. But the less places any unskilled moron can fly a a heavy device with spinning propellers over my head to record me and everyone else without us knowing, the better.

Sep 29, 2017permalink

Piotr M

"record me and everyone else without us knowing, the better."
Wrong argument. There is no privacy in public space like a park.

Sep 29, 2017permalink

Simon Zeev

Is not a problem of privacy, is a problem of safety.

Sep 29, 2017permalink

Quisquis

And yet arguments about privacy are being made...

Sep 30, 2017permalink

(unknown member)

Saw same near Audubon site in NE. And earlier this year out west. Am not sure why no one understands that we don't want to see another visual, noise pollutant when we look at the sky.

Sep 30, 2017permalink

Trundling

@rbach44

So you are okay if a SKILLED moron with shoulder marks and a security clearance does that?

Oct 1, 2017permalink

Simon Zeev

Yes

Oct 1, 2017permalink

Rensol

Can amyone explain what drone can do to a DAM?
Make an invisible scratch?

Sep 29, 2017permalink

Rensol

I know someone will write somethibg like that. So what you said can be dome only fron closer then 400ft while can not be done from 450ft?

Sep 29, 2017permalink

AustinMN

A drone can make dam authorities complain to the FAA.

Sep 29, 2017permalink

racenviper

It is not the damage, but the drone will in up in a place the user will try to retrieve it, risking their life and others to retrieve the drone.

Sep 29, 2017permalink

Vik2012

Consumer level drones are already being used with alarming effect in middle east conflicts. For example, drones are routinely used to drop grenades and IED's on what was supposed to be the "safe" areas in Mosul, despite the no fly zones in operation. The Iraqi army have reported on daily efforts to shoot down (consumer level) drones and the seemingly endless supply their enemies have.

I am not sure why so many people still think that the only thing a drone can do is "scratch" something. They clearly have not been keeping up to date with the multiple uses that increasingly sophisticated and capable drones can be put to. Drones are now also a very cheap way to get into the air for surveillance or, as the aforementioned describes, attack.

These new no fly zone rules reflect a growing concern among law enforcement and national security analysts that the first major misuse of drones in the West is just around the corner.

Sep 29, 2017permalink

Rensol

Still.
Here is the main question.
How 410 feet are acceptable and 400 feet are not?
What can be done at 390 feet but can not be done from 410 feet away?
You see the point?

Sep 29, 2017permalink

Vik2012

They have to set an limit of some value that restricts flying in very close proximity, or making contact with a structure or those working at or visiting that location.

Obtaining prior permission to fly in close proximity also helps control who is permitted, and how prepared officials are to respond to any possible issue, safety, security or other.

That exact distance would probably be increased following any incident that shows it to be ineffective.

I think that those no-fly restrictions will also increase as drones become easier to fly greater distances remotely without an operator being easily identified or apprehended at the scene, where that is deemed necessary.

Sep 29, 2017*permalink

Ed Ingold

A terrorist bent on sabotaging a dam or national monument with a drone would be hard to defend against. Perhaps if security were equipped with goose guns ....

I suspect the restrictions are related to use of drones to identify security measures not easily visible from unrestricted areas, and more important to prevent injuries to crowds of people in attendance. Drones have an annoying sound, like large mosquitos, which detract from visitors' enjoyment.

Sep 29, 2017permalink

RedFox88

Recon for terrorism

Sep 30, 2017permalink

Jon555

Having a 400' limit means the authorities could shoot down or otherwise engage a drone when it was within 200' and the drone owner wouldn't have an argument. Or just arrest the drone owner.

They have chain link fences round many military bases. They aren't difficult to get through, just hard to explain why you were inside them accidentally and you would certainly expect to be arrested there. Also the authorities can safely arrest people which is trickier on the outside of the fence. Having a nice "boundary" that says what is illegal can be very handy.

Sep 30, 2017permalink

NG Resonance

The U.S. homeland insecurity apparatus is obsessed with dams. Ever try visiting one these days? The paranoia is absurd.

Sep 29, 2017permalink

camcom12

Yes and I experienced it first hand. Toured a Bureau of Reclamation Dam this year and it was no different than the TSA line at major airports. Plus the tour has been 'watered down' as they no longer allow the public in the inner tunnels. However it was free and they made the tour as interesting as possible, and surprisingly, cameras were just fine.

I'm not sure how a drone could harm a dam either, but I think it may be the surveillance aspect that the feds are concerned with, in addition to aesthetics, noise, & public safety, so agencies have deferred to the FAA for authority to limit nearby flights.

Sep 29, 2017permalink

Vik2012

Dams, by their nature, are both difficult and extremely important to protect. An attack that breaches a Dam can have widespread consequences for those in the path of the flooding as well as knocking out hydropower stations.

According to FEMA's executive summary "There are now over 10,000 dams in the United States that are classified as high-hazard potential, meaning that their failure from any means, including an attack, could result in loss of life, significant property damage, lifeline disruption, and environmental damage. "

Sep 29, 2017permalink

Travis Butler

Visiting Hoover Dam this spring, there is an auto security checkpoint a couple of miles from the dam; reasonable enough given the road. (The original two-lane US highway between Vegas and Phoenix runs right on top of the dam; there is the rather nasty possibility of truck bombs.)

At the dam itself, though, security theater was absent; I went there before dawn to catch the sunrise, and had no trouble wandering around any of the public areas. The visitors' center was closed, of course, but I could walk anywhere around the dam itself, the memorial right next to it, or any of the scenic outlooks in the surrounding area.

That said, I completely understand why they banned drones; the power generators are at a turbine house at the base of the dam, with lots and lots of high-voltage cables running from the turbine house to the transformers on the bluffs. (See https://flic.kr/p/TFTVk8 ). It would be pretty easy for a drone to drift in there and short out something.

Sep 29, 2017*permalink

Jon555

I remember flying in a helicopter past the Hoover Dam, the pilot came in downstream and low and swooped up (and over) as we approached the dam. Of course if he'd got it wrong we'd just have been a greasy mark on the concrete. I suspect they don't get to go so close these days.

Sep 30, 2017permalink

mcshan

I am thankful they are obsessed. I would not be surprised to learn that captured intelligence showed dams as a possible target. The world has changed.

Sep 30, 2017permalink

Vanitas Photo

Glad they did set this regulation, better safe than sorry before someone crashes a drone on a statue, historic building or landmark/monument.

Sep 29, 2017permalink

stevo23

It's a start. One place they forgot was "anywhere happen to be trying to enjoy the peace and quiet of the outdoors".

Sep 29, 2017permalink

AustinMN

It has nothing to do with peace and quiet of those enjoying the outdoors.

It has everything to do with FAA officials trying to enjoy peace and quiet while other authorities are calling them complaining about drones. There are plenty of very large dams not on this list. Why? because those dam authorities are not calling the FAA every time they think they see a drone.

Sep 29, 2017permalink

stevo23

@Austin - like I said, that's what they forgot.

Sep 29, 2017permalink

PhotoUniverse

Maybe DJI and other manufacturers should have those restricted in the firmware/OS.

Sep 29, 2017permalink

Stefan Sobol

Probably coming soon (at least to DJI and their GeoFence app).

Sep 29, 2017permalink

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