Any flying anything over 1000 I believe feet is faa. LA police will hunt you down if you hit an lapd chopper flying at 250feet. If you take pictures of private property with a drown in many states thats jail time especially LA county.
"The current legal status of using drones for photography is extremely nebulous. There has been some movement towards them being outside of the grasp of the FAA, but densely packed cities are not looking too fondly on their use, and after a crash in New York, a drone controller was arrested for reckless endangerment. Given that fact, you can see why it might not be the best idea to take your drone for a spin at the location of a disastrous building collapse in Harlem—but that's exactly what happened yesterday."
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