That boundry line extends up to the minimum altitude limits of the FAA. Yes you do own the air above your property.
Patently false. A property owner's air rights
do not extend 'up to the minimum altitude limits of the FAA'. Where do you get this stuff? As already stated, you own the airspace for 'reasonable use'. There's nothing to stop an aircraft fromflying lowover your property, keeping the 500' limit from people or structures. By the same token, a property owner can't put up a 200' windmill and not expect FAA (or local) review.
This defines the navigable airspace and the limits of property air rights as it pertains to overflying aircraft. When you are flying a UAV below 400 feet you are, in most places, flying in non navigable airspace and thus trespassing the property you are overflying.
FALSE. You are aware that there is uncontrolled airspace is the USA that extends from the surface to 18,000' (FL180), aren't you?
But by the same token it is not legal to fly closer than 500 feet from a house.
Which is what I said. A house is a 'structure'.
With the exception of class A airspace FAA control starts at the surface and extends to FL 600.
phlpsfrnk, sorry, not true. PCA (Positive Control Airspace) overlies the US 18,000-60,000', below that are several classes of airspace to include uncontrolled airspace which in some areas are ground level to 18,000'.
This is straying from the thread subject, so I'll discuss via PM.
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