The Legal Skies: How We Use Drones Without Landing in Hot Water
We love our drones, but we love admissible evidence even more. After we ace the FAA’s Part 107 test, the real game begins: tip-toeing around the “reasonable expectation of privacy” minefield. Hover too low over a backyard or warehouse bay and your footage could get tossed faster than yesterday’s coffee. That’s why we run every flight plan past legal counsel, map altitudes like chess moves, and treat curtilage, fenced yards, and semi-private venues as no-fly zones unless we have permission—or a judge’s blessing. When we say our intel is court-ready, it’s because we’ve already fought the privacy battle before takeoff.