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Flight Plan: Charting a Course for Drones
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Flight Plan: Charting a Course for Drones

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Civilian drones are cheap enough now that hobbyists in Washington State fly $400 to $3000 rigs over open fields just to get an aerial shot, and the FAA lets them do it without commercial oversight as long as they stay under 400 feet, five miles from an airport, and within sight of the operator. TVW's special tracks how fast that hobby has turned into a business, following growers who want drones to survey vineyards and agents who want them to shoot real estate listings, then heading inside a Washington manufacturing facility building unmanned aerial systems for military buyers. The privacy fight gets equal time: state representative Jeff Morris pushes legislation to limit how police and other government agencies can deploy drones, while civil liberties advocates argue the technology is already outpacing any rules meant to contain it. The film moves from backyard flyers to factory floors to a legislative hearing room, treating drones as an industry, a surveillance question, and a hobby all at once, without settling which one matters most.