Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Re: Beautiful video from a trike

Plus that 500 foot rule does not in fact apply to trikes any way. Trikes can fly closer than that.
Abid

--- In Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com, "Ed Burkhead" <ed@...> wrote:
>
>
> Steve asked:
> > I really loved the video, but is flying so close
> > to the ground safe, and legal?
>
> Legal? I've looked and never found nor heard of a minimum altitude limit in
> the FARs. The FARs do require that we maintain at least 500' separation
> from any person, vehicle or structure.
>
> In that entire video, I only saw one vehicle and the trikes banked away from
> it. It's a bit hard to tell from the very wide angle lens but it looked to
> me like about a thousand foot separation (WAG).
>
> So, that's fully legal.
>
> Ed Burkhead
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> ed -at- edbur???khead (dot) com (You can fix it up, as needed)
>
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>
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