Volume: 2Date: 2024-01-01Original Date: 2024-01-01Title: Section 107.125 - Category 3 operations: Operating requirements.Context:
Title 14 - Aeronautics and Space. CHAPTER I - FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION (CONTINUED). SUBCHAPTER F - AIR TRAFFIC AND GENERAL OPERATING RULES. PART 107 - SMALL UNMANNED AIRCRAFT SYSTEMS. Subpart D - Operations Over Human Beings.
§ 107.125Category 3 operations: Operating requirements.To conduct Category 3 operations, a remote pilot in command—(a) Must use a small unmanned aircraft that—(1) Is eligible for Category 3 operations pursuant to § 107.130(a);(2) Is listed on an FAA-accepted declaration of compliance as eligible for Category 3 operations in accordance with § 107.160; and(3) Is labeled as eligible for Category 3 operations in accordance with § 107.130(b)(1);(b) Must not operate the small unmanned aircraft over open-air assemblies of human beings; and(c) May only operate the small unmanned aircraft above any human being if operation meets one of the following conditions:(1) The operation is within or over a closed- or restricted-access site and all human beings located within the closed- or restricted-access site must be on notice that a small unmanned aircraft may fly over them; or(2) The small unmanned aircraft does not maintain sustained flight over any human being unless that human being is—(i) Directly participating in the operation of the small unmanned aircraft; or
(ii) Located under a covered structure or inside a stationary vehicle that
can provide reasonable protection from a falling small unmanned aircraft.
Code of Federal Regulations /
Title 14 - Aeronautics and Space /
Vol. 2 / 2024-01-01912
[Amdt. No. 107-8, 86 FR 4382, Jan. 15, 2021, as amended by 86 FR 62473, Nov. 10, 2021]