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Dovepass tool checks drone flight legality in San Francisco
Original: Show HN: Dovepass – can I legally fly a drone along this exact path in SF?
A new tool called Dovepass lets drone pilots enter an exact flight path in San Francisco and find out whether flying it is legally permitted. It addresses the patchwork of FAA rules, local restrictions and airspace zones that make drone legality hard to figure out. Hacker News commenters are discussing the utility, its data accuracy, and how regulators could integrate such path-based checks.
Why now: Recreational and commercial drone operators face confusing, overlapping rules, so an automated path-specific legality check is immediately useful.
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