From the course: Working Professionally with Your Drone

Waivers: Which one you need and how to get

From the course: Working Professionally with Your Drone

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Waivers: Which one you need and how to get

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- After you get your part 107, there are some rules that we do need to follow. But depending on the situation sometimes we need to break those rules. - Absolutely. Sometimes you need to fly beyond visual line of sight, for example. Well, if you need to break one of the rules that are stated in part 107, you need a waiver. Now, how do we get waivers Francis? - You get a waiver by applying it through the FAA's website, The Drone Zone - The Drone Zone again. Yes. Let's go over how to apply for an operational waiver. Once you are in here, go ahead and click where it says, create part 107 waiver authorization. And from here, what you want is an operational waiver. Remember, before we used authorization and you don't want an airspace waiver. What you want is an operational waiver. Click there and click on Start Application. And now you are going to tell them what time of day you're going to be using this, if it's for night, what kind of anti-collision lighting, et cetera, et cetera. So everything that you're going to fill this out is going to be relevant to whatever waiver you're applying for. For example, I have a waiver to fly above people. In the waiver application, once you go to Next, et cetera, et cetera, what you need to do is tell the FAA how you plan to maintain safety. What specific procedures are you going to use to maintain safety? For example, in my waiver to fly above people, my way to maintain safety is a parachute that is attached to the drone. So there's a lot more to that, but in essence that's what it is. We explain it like that. We hit Submit. And then the FAA is going to take about 90 days to approve or deny your waiver.

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