Uploaded April 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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FAA Regulations and Drone Law Enforcement

This video covers the intersection of Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) regulations and drone law enforcement. It discusses what rules the FAA is working to administer under Part 107 and how these are commonly violated by RC and drone pilots. Note that the FAA regulations are part of administrative law that usually involves fines or certificate actions.

The FAA is still in the early stages of working to apply these regulations to the modeling public, so I'd call the effort a work in progress. This will likely take on more focus as Remote ID comes on line in late 2023.

For now, the best approach would be to know when you are flying under Part 107 and comply with the regulations. Avoid controlled airspace violations and flying over people, and anything that can be considered reckless operation.

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Tim

F-22 video:

youtu.be/Ya9bT2I4-AY

Part 107 regulations:

ecfr.gov/current/title-14/chapter-I/subchapter-F/part-107

TFR video:

youtu.be/8SKkHnuoItI

Chapters:

00:00 - Intro
00:20 - Overview
06:43 - Certificate actions
07:27 - 7 common Part 107 violations
14:48 - Airspace violations
15:31 - TFR airspace