{"id":9081,"date":"2017-03-16T22:23:38","date_gmt":"2017-03-17T06:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/al6400.com\/blog\/?p=9081"},"modified":"2017-03-16T22:23:38","modified_gmt":"2017-03-17T06:23:38","slug":"canada-drone-laws-making-almost-illegal-recreational-flyers-made-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/canada-drone-laws-making-almost-illegal-recreational-flyers-made-think\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada Drone Laws Making It Almost Illegal For Recreational Flyers Made Me Think"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well today in Canada there were some new laws that made it almost virtually impossible for a hobbyist flyer to fly a drone for fun.  Under the new rules through Transport Canada it states the following new rules announced today by Transportation Minister Marc Garneau.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Effective immediately recreational users will face a fine of up to $3,000 if drones weighing more than 250 grams are caught flying:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Higher than 90 metres.<br \/>\n-Within 75 metres of buildings, vehicles, vessels, animals or people.<br \/>\n-More than 500 metres away from the user.<br \/>\n-At night, in clouds or somewhere you can&#8217;t see it.<br \/>\n-Within nine kilometres of somewhere aircraft take off or land, or a forest fire.<br \/>\n-Without your name, address and phone number marked on the drone itself.<br \/>\n-Over forest fires, emergency response scenes or controlled airspace.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Now as expected many people who have never flew a drone in their life are for the rules whereas many experienced people find it a bit crazy.  In many ways I was actually planning for this kind of thing where this was one of the reasons why I wanted to build my skills daily this year in case some kind of restrictive law gets passed.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Y6uOOP9vn0Q\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Of the question is what does one do now?  I was actually thinking even from a business perspective there are actually many people who would just give up where if it was like a stock market it sounds like the right time to sell as they say.  But for me it\u2019s often about the journey.  I was actually interested in the commercial aspect of drone flying where in many ways this is like an incentive to research it more now.  I was even watching a video the other day where often a lot of people found success during depressing times or like in a recession as that creates the most opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>So in that sense funny enough I am kind of motivated to keep going forward and see where this journey takes me.  Wouldn\u2019t that be funny if I actually did end up doing say drone flying commercially because of this?  That would be something and it always reminds why I love to document my journey on how I ended up doing various opportunities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well today in Canada there were some new laws that made it almost virtually impossible for a hobbyist flyer to fly a drone for fun. Under the new rules through Transport Canada it states the following new rules announced today by Transportation Minister Marc Garneau. Effective immediately recreational users will face a fine of up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9082,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[224,4799,3741],"class_list":["post-9081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-canada","tag-drones","tag-laws"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/droenews.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6VnHC-2mt","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9083,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9081\/revisions\/9083"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}