{"id":4739,"date":"2019-06-07T10:28:33","date_gmt":"2019-06-07T17:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/3d.coldstreams.com\/?p=4739"},"modified":"2019-06-07T10:28:33","modified_gmt":"2019-06-07T17:28:33","slug":"canada-now-requires-a-written-exam-for-rc-model-aircraft-flying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/3d\/2019\/06\/07\/canada-now-requires-a-written-exam-for-rc-model-aircraft-flying\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada now requires a written exam for RC model aircraft flying"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The topics covered on the exam are fairly extensive. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tc.gc.ca\/en\/services\/aviation\/publications\/tp-15263.html\">Take a look<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I suspect this is where we are headed in the U.S. The FAA has yet to release details of the U.S. exam, which was required by last year&#8217;s Congressional vote to re-authorize FAA funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally, the FAA has postponed to later this year, a proposal for remote identification of all flying model aircraft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Important note<\/strong>: If you are not a Canadian resident, such as a U.S. resident making a trip to Canada, if you wish to fly your drone in Canada, <a href=\"https:\/\/dronereviewsandnews.com\/taking-your-drone-to-canada-heres-what-you-need-to-know\/\">you must apply for a Special Flight Operations Certificate before you go to Canada<\/a>. If you do not comply with the new rules, you may face fines of thousands of dollars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canada now requires pilots of model aircraft to pass an extensive written exam, online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/3d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/3d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/3d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/3d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/3d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/3d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/3d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/3d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/3d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}