There are very specific laws for overflight, continued overflight and overflight of gatherings of people.Kid wrote:What does the law say about minimum height restrictions for man carrying aircraft in uncontrolled areas? I am sure I read somewhere something like 500” or 700” and 2000” over built-up areas.
This does vary for helicopters which are given more latitude and lower height restrictions - in a chopper you largely have to not be posing a risk to people or property and be able to recover from an engine failure, there isn't actually a minimum height specified. (common sense should apply).
In the latter case you would hope that a twin engined chopper would be in use for very low level flight.
Outside of this specific operations can be executed with permission from the director of the CAA.