Matthew Brown, attorney and founder of USDroneLaw.com, told DTN the new regulation likely will lead to more drone use in agriculture. Rather than getting caught up in all the details of the regulation, he said, farmers likely will be in compliance by following a few set rules.
Generally speaking, he said, a farmer will be legal if he or she is not flying a UAS above other people, is operating with a remote pilot certificate, performs a pre-flight inspection of the device and flies in daylight at lower than 400 feet of altitude.
The rules provide a number of exemptions that could be useful to farmers, Brown said, including an operator's visual line-of-sight [...]
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