Recommended Safety Practices for Microdrones

In plain language

To fly safely, Transport Canada strongly recommends keeping your microdrone in sight at all times, flying below 400 feet, keeping a safe distance from people and airports, avoiding critical infrastructure, and checking your drone before takeoff.

Requirement as structured

Transport Canada recommends that microdrone pilots fly within visual line of sight, below 400 feet, away from people, aerodromes, critical infrastructure, and other aircraft, and perform pre-flight inspections.

Original regulatory text

As a recommended practice, you should always: - fly your drone where you can always see it . - fly your drone below 400 feet in the air - keep a safe distance between your drone and any person - stay far away from aerodromes, airports, heliports and water aerodromes - avoid flying near critical infrastructure (utilities, communication towers, bridges, etc.) - stay clear of all aircraft at all times - do a pre-flight inspection of your drone - keep the drone close enough to maintain the connection with the remote controller

Applies when

country

Canada

max mtom kg

0.249

regulatory category

General