How to Fly Drone

How to Fly Drone Droning in Cities by  Lt Col CR Sundar

How to Fly Drone

    There was a query wondering how one can fly drones in urban and built areas which are mostly shown as Red/Yellow Zones.

So far not sufficient thought has been given to flying drones in cities and other built up areas.

It is worth noting that out right blanketing city areas as red or yellow zones is meaningless. This defeats the very purpose of dronery and those areas will be denied drone services. This would be an unfortunate situation.

What needs to happen is that above the city-scape ‘Drone Highways’ have to be earmarked. Drones will be allowed to fly up and down along these highways at a height of 500 feet to 3500 feet.

Drone Streets / Drone Roads 

At various points along the highway ‘Drone Roads’ will branch off in different directions. ‘Drone Streets’ will take off from ‘Drone Roads’ and so on.

These drone routes will replicate the same concept that we see on earth in a different dimension. Rules will need to be written about these routes.

People and the droning community will have to claim these areal Highways, Roads, Street, Lanes and By-lanes. The authorised government department will register them if there is no objection. In case of an objection they can give diversions or alternative routes.

For example a droning community may claim a ‘Done Highway’ across the city of Chennai from Tambaram in the South to Royapuram in North Chennai. If the Highway avoids the IAF Station, Airport, Rajbhavan, IIT and the State Assembly it should be acceptable. ‘Drone Roads’ can branch off from Chromepet, Pallavaram, Guindy and so on.

Such a design can be replicated in all towns and cities across India.

That would make our country ‘drone ready’.