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Originally Posted by Lubicon
A quick Google of the FAA regs show this regarding minimum altitude:
" c) Over other than congested areas – An altitude of 500 feet above the surface except over open water or sparsely populated areas. In that case, the aircraft may not be operated closer than 500 feet to any person, vessel, vehicle, or structure. "
Bit of a grey area in this case as he was over open water. I have only viewed the one video on TMZ but from that it's really difficult to say whether he was within 500' of boats etc.
https://www.faa.gov/about/office_org...g_Aircraft.pdf |
It's an amphibious aircraft, it routinely flys close to water. I really think there's more to this story than people are assuming or speculating.