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What is required to fly a Part 107 drone within 30 minutes after official sunset?

Anti-collision lighting, because it is civil twilight.

  1. A transponder
  2. Operation in a rural area
  3. Lighted anti-collision lighting ✔

Why: Outside Alaska, the 30 minutes after official sunset is civil twilight. Part 107 requires lit anti-collision lighting visible for 3 statute miles during civil twilight.

Huh, didn't know that: Outside Alaska, morning civil twilight is the 30 minutes before official sunrise.

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Why did the drone put on its lights at sunset? It wanted to be the bright spot in everyone's evening.
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Sources

  1. 14 CFR 107.29 Operation at night (eCFR) https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-14/section-107.29

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