Drones: The Rules and How-To's of Flying Unmanned Aircraft Systems

B4UFLY app The FAA website has a downloadable APP for your smartphone to navigate away areas you want to fly with restrictions or to adhere to effective requirements in an area you are flying.

The FAA also has some guidelines how to fly safe - 

• Getting started.
• Recreational Flyer guidelines - If you fly for fun and personal enjoyment
• Educational User
• Certificated Remote Pilot - If you fly for commercial or any other non-recreational purposes
• Public Safety or Government User
• Where can you fly your drone?
• How to create a business account on FAA DroneZone

Register your drone

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Critical Infrastructure and Public Venues  - Drones are prohibited from flying over designated national security sensitive facilities. Operations are prohibited from the ground up to 400 feet above ground level, and apply to all types and purposes of UAS flight operations.

• Airspace Restrictions
• Where Can I Fly?
• Airport Safety and Airspace Hazard Mitigation and Enforcement (Section 383

Here's a snapshot of the current state of drones in the United States as of Jan 2022:

• 854,864 drones registered
  • 317,177 commercial drones registered
  • 534,084 recreational drones registered
  • 3,603 paper registrations
• 275,565 Remote pilots certified
• 244,495 TRUST completion certificates issued by test administrators
• UAS quarterly activity reports

2022 Drone Safety Day Saturday, June 18

Learn more about Drone Safety Day.

The illustration is from Design Bundles (we're a brand ambassador).

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