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Category 3 drones may fly over people at a closed or restricted-access site if those people are what?

On notice that a drone may fly over them.

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  1. Wearing hard hats
  2. On notice that a drone may fly over them ✔
  3. All over 18 years old

Why: Category 3 allows flight over people inside a closed or restricted-access site when everyone there knows a drone may fly overhead. It is never allowed over open-air assemblies.

Huh, didn't know that: Outside such a site, a Category 3 drone may not hover over anyone except participants or people under cover or in stopped vehicles.

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Answer: On notice that a drone may fly over them. Category 3 allows flight over people inside a closed or restricted-access site when everyone there knows a drone may fly overhead. It is never allowed over open-air assemblies.

  1. 14 CFR 107.125 Category 3 operating requirements www.ecfr.gov/current/title-14/chapter-I/subchapter-F/part-107/section-107.125
    all human beings located within the closed- or restricted-access site must be on notice that a small unmanned aircraft may fly over them
    Checked 2026-10-09.

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