3 Flying Safely and Legally

If you’re a photography enthusiast with experience operating a conventional still or video camera, the first thing you may do when you get your hands on a new piece of gear is take it out and put it through its paces. The tendency is to want to see what your equipment can do right off the bat, and resort to the manual only after you’ve discovered that certain operations aren’t quite as intuitive as you’d thought, or that you’ll need some help understanding all the options of a particular feature. With conventional cameras there are few limits on where or when you can take pictures, within the restrictions of privacy and private property rights.

So, serious photographers can venture out with a new camera and experiment ...

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