How do male bees find caves? On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 5:54 PM, Terry Holsinger via Texascavers < texascavers@texascavers.com> wrote:
> A short PSA for those cavers going/caving in Mexico and looking at using a > Drone while in country. > > Reading a recent page about "Drone laws by country" I noted that the > recreational use of a drone in Mexico is RESTRICTED for foreigners. > > I.E. it is illegal for foreigner to use a drone without a permit. > > There is little to no enforcement of this BUT IF the authorities decided > to, they can legally take your drone and fine/jail you. > > Going a little deeper and looking for a bit more information I found the > following discussion of this matter, here lifted from a drone flyers forum: > > "The Mexican regulation does not allow giving a permit to fly a Foreign > Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS) drone in Mexico. This prohibition > is established in Circular Obligatoria CO AV-23/10 R3 paragraph 7.2.y). For > your information the Circular Obligatoria aforementioned establishes the > requirements and limitations to operate RPAS in Mexican airspace and it is > in Spanish only. If you want, you could obtain a copy of the Circular > Obligatoria in the following link: > > http://www.sct.gob.mx/fileadmin/DireccionesGrales/DGAC- > archivo/modulo3/co-av-23-10-r3.pdf > > A direct question of so it IS illegal for any US citizen to operate a > drone in Mexico: > > His first reply: > > "It is correct, it is not possible to grant authorization for pilots and > US companies to provide services to Drones to Mexico, until there is a > bilateral agreement where the rules for their acceptance are established > for both countries." > > I asked if this applied to both commercial and rec fliers; he replied: ' > > "Is correct, it that applies to both commercial & recreational fliers, and > so is necessary obtain Bilateral Agreement between FAA and DGAC, for > established the conditions and limitations for do it." > > > BTW these reply's came from this guy: > > ng. Pablo Carranza Plata. > Director General AdjuntO de Aviación > DIRECCION GENERAL DE AERONAUTICA CIVIL > Tels. (+52 55) 5723-9300 / 5482-4100 Ext. 18070, > Blvd. Adolfo López Mateos 1990, 2º piso > <https://maps.google.com/?q=Blvd.+Adolfo+L%C3%B3pez+Mateos+1990,+2%C2%BA+piso&entry=gmail&source=g> > Col. Los Alpes Tlacopac, Del. Álvaro Obregón, > C.P. 01010, en México, D. F." > > Original page link: > > https://petapixel.com/2017/09/20/heres-map-date-drone-laws-every-country/ > > forums thread link: > > https://phantompilots.com/threads/flying-in-mexico-prohibite > d-for-americans.104976/ > _______________________________________________ > Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com > Texascavers@texascavers.com | Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/te > xascav...@texascavers.com/ > http://lists.texascavers.com/listinfo/texascavers > -- Charlie Loving
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