MarkB_MI said: (quoted from post at 05:35:20 07/30/15) A little selective editing, Cooter.
91.119c actually says "An altitude of 500 feet above the surface, except over open water or sparsely populated areas..." Given that the vast majority of the US land mass could be considered "sparsely populated", that's a pretty big loophole. The FAR doesn't define "sparsely populated", so I've always interpreted it to mean "anywhere you're not likely to violate the 500 foot separation requirement if you descend below 500 ft AGL". Which gets back to my point that the real requirement is to maintain 500 feet between your plane and any buildings, vehicles or people.
Regardless of how you want to parse FAR 91.119, I think we can both agree it doesn't confer any sort of "ownership" of airspace above one's property.
Not to belabor the point but you said no such rule exists, which it does. There are exceptionswhich I pointed out. The rule would broadly apply east of the Mississippi. Sparsely populated would refer to areas that resemble open water, like the desert out west or the Appalachians in the east. Those areas are pretty recognizable from above. Where I live in Missouri, although rural, wouldn't apply. Sparsely populated is the exception, not the rule.
This post was edited by Cooter143 at 06:42:12 07/30/15.
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