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🎒 What you need
- the shared phone to look up your own country's rules
- paper to write your own pilot's pledge
- a grown-up to talk it through with
✋ Do this
- Learn the big one first: never fly near an airport or where aeroplanes take off and land. This is banned almost everywhere, and it is dangerous, not just naughty.
- Learn the second: in many African countries — Kenya, Nigeria, Ghana, Rwanda, South Africa and others — drones must be registered and you need permission before flying. Rules differ by country, so you must check YOUR country's civil aviation authority.
- Search on the phone for your own country's civil aviation authority drone rules. Write down two real rules you find.
- Now the people rules: do not fly over crowds, do not fly over someone's home or compound without asking, keep the drone where you can see it.
- Ask yourself the question that matters: 'How would I feel if a stranger's camera hovered over my yard?' Write your answer down.
- Write and sign your own Pilot's Pledge: five rules in your own words. Stick it somewhere you will see it.
💡 Why it works
Drones are genuinely useful in Africa — carrying blood and medicine to clinics, counting cattle, checking crops and finding people after floods — and all of that depends on pilots being trusted. One careless flight near an airport or over a private compound damages that trust for everybody. Rules are what keep a good tool from being banned.
🔥 Challenge
Find out one real, useful job drones do in your own country and one thing that is banned. Tell someone both facts.
📖 New words
airspacethe sky above a place, and who is allowed to use it
registrationofficially recording a drone with the authorities, which many countries require
privacya person's right not to be watched or filmed without permission
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Sky Guardian
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