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Now I'm reading about insurance. Basically, you never want to turn on your drone unless you have paid for insurance. Even privacy insurance in case your neighbor hears it start and immediately calls the cops and a lawyer to sue you for breach of privacy even though she's ugly and nobody would want to peek in her windows.
There's even an app that sells you insurance per hourly use of the drone. You draw the flight area on a map, choose the level of coverage you want, and pay before you ever fire up the drone. If you skewer Mittens the kitten with your prop blades, well, you're covered for at least $500,000.
I swear, THIS is the reason we don't have and never will have flying cars. F-ing government bureaucrats and insurance adjusters.
So I'm looking at getting a drone to do some videography for commercial purposes. I've been researching all the FAA regulations, dos and don'ts, tips for flying, videography, etc. My finger is hovering over the "buy now" button on BestBuy.com.
But, there's an exam you have to take to certify to fly for commercial purposes that, I thought, was supposed to test you on the Part 107 regulations. I pull up a list of sample test questions from the FAA's own website and it has questions on it that, for all intents and purposes, apply only to MANned aircraft, not UNmanned aircraft. Crap like "What airport is located approximately 47 (degrees) 40 (minutes) N latitude and 101 (degrees) 26 (minutes) W longitude?"
And I'm sitting here like, "WTF! I don't live anywhere near there! I just want to take pictures of some friggin trees and houses in my metro area!"
"Welcome to the FAA website, where we're not happy until you're not happy."
rant
faa rules suck