Power company employees use an sUAS to inspect a long stretch of high voltage powerlines. Due to muddy conditions, their vehicle must stay beside the road and the crew must use binoculars to maintain visual line of sight with the aircraft. Is this sUAS operation in compliance with 14 CFR Part 107?

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Yandel Hooper

8 February, 03:35

Power company employees use an sUAS to inspect a long stretch of high voltage powerlines. Due to muddy conditions, their vehicle must stay beside the road and the crew must use binoculars to maintain visual line of sight with the aircraft. Is this sUAS operation in compliance with 14 CFR Part 107?

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Raymond Baird · Answer 1

No, the operation is not compliant with part 107.

Explanation:

The acronym sUAS refers to the US unmanned aircraft system. To ensure functionality and safety in the handling and operation of the USAS, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has formulated and recast various regulations in accordance with Title 14 of the Code of Federal Regulations.

Regarding the regularization outlined in question aicma, we can say that this regularization is not in compliance with 14 CFR Part 107. Because the regularization shown above is a special traffic condition of sUAS, and 14 CFR Part 107 is not takes care of special traffic conditions, who takes care of it is 14 CFR Part 93.