Hi, and welcome to Section two, where we'll be talking about countries and their specific drone laws and how to find them. So just in case you're not aware, each country in the world has their own drone laws, and they can vary quite wildly throughout the world. It's shouldn't be too much of a surprise. Every country has their own laws for different things. So why should drones be any different? Now I could go through and list each country and their drone laws, but besides the fact that it would take me literally forever to do, I'm not going to do that because a month down the road, they'd all be outdated because things are changing very quickly.

So instead, I'll be actually showing you how to go and look up drone laws for any different country out there and sort of see what it is and, you know, things that are updated in real time so that no matter when you're viewing this video, you know that those Laws are up to date, and you're confident that you can go to that country and not be breaking the law. So some countries have really, really strict drone laws, some lot out band, and they can actually, like, arrest you and put you in prison or flying a drone in some circumstances, those sorts of countries, it's, it's a huge shame because obviously, there's, you know, recreational flying of drones and getting all those fantastic videos and photos that we're wanting to get. But in case you don't know, there's a huge, huge section of drones that is for industry.

So things like doing site inspections, or, you know, surveying or agriculture is another absolutely huge section for drones and they simply just don't have access to that. So if you're in one of those countries, I'm very sorry, but it's just yeah, until they get their laws in check. It's unfortunately what has to happen. So there's not too many countries. Thankfully that flat out drones, a lot of them have very similar rules. And we'll get into that later.

And a few of them have absolutely no rules whatsoever. Some, you know, drones are pretty new on the block, they're 567 years old kind of thing. Sometimes law doesn't move that quickly, regulations don't get created overnight. So some of them just have absolutely no rules. So once you know what country you're actually traveling to, I would recommend that you go to this fantastic website, which is UI v coach.com. Now, this site, as I said, regularly updates These rules are even if they change within a month, they'll be updated, and you will have the latest information.

I'll also tell you how to double check that but go to their site and you want to click on the guide and then drone laws guides up the top and that will take you down to a page that will have a list of all the countries by name and you can just simply go to the country that you're wanting to fly or join in the country. I'm going to, and click on that, that'll take you to a separate page where it'll list out, you know, a very simplified version of the the general rules that you'll be facing when you go to that country and you want to fly drones. So you can see a example here from Australia. And if you want to be absolutely sure, like 100%, you know, just in case this website has gone out of date, or something strange like that, or maybe there's not a huge amount of information on the page for your specific country, they usually at the very least list the local authority, so the Aviation Authority for that country, and the website that I have, so you can click through to that and you can, you know, have a look at their website and make sure that the two are the same.

And maybe you as a coach has been out of date, or maybe they've just updated their regulations and it hasn't been updated yet. Or you can just verify that what's on the website is actually correct. Usually the slight you know, Aviation Authority will put things a little more complicated. So it's really handy to have that UID coach website to just sort of simplify it and drill down to the actual basic stacks. Now, while looking at these pages and looking at the various different countries, maybe you go into multiple countries, you'll probably notice that most laws are sort of split into two separate categories. The first one is surrounding identification, security and, you know, insurance, they'll demand that you maybe have your drone secured and insured, so that if it crashes into something, they know that you've got the money to pay for what you're damaging.

They also might demand that you register you know, entering all your details, who you're who you are, what your type of drone is, and give you an identification number that you can then attach to your drone. Some of them even require them to be like fireproof, just in case it pops out of the sky burst into flames, they can still get an identification officer. And the other category is more about flying natural drones. So you're making sure that inside Visual line of sight on the LMS, that's a very common one to enhance safety. Other ones also involve things like maximum flight altitude, so not going higher than 100 meters or not going higher than 150 meters. And then you've got the sort of privacy sorts of things where, you know, not taking photos of people if they don't want you to stand further than 30 or 50 meters away from a group of people not flying over the beaches, not flying over, you know, residential properties that you don't own, all those sorts of general flying and privacy laws.

So those are the two main categories that you'll find with these sorts of rules and laws that each country has. And they'll just be a variation of those things most of the time, so it's good to get familiar with them. And to sort of look at the website go, Okay, this country allows me to fly up to 150 meters, but I have to register it on this page register at usually isn't too much of a painful process.