Drone Delivery Tracker: who flies over your town, where, and what has come down

The FAA controls the airspace and the operator's certificate; a town cannot ban overflight or require a parachute. Where a hub needs a permit, a town controls its siting, its conditions and the ground facility, and it controls its own zoning code either way. Nobody can compel an operator to answer these, which is the point of asking in public and publishing what comes back. How approval works sets out the whole process and which levers are real.

1. 01
   Weight and payload. What does the aircraft weigh empty and at takeoff, and what does it carry? How many pounds of aircraft fly over a home for each pound of cargo?
2. 02
   Recovery system. Does it carry a parachute or other recovery system? If not, was one evaluated, and why was it excluded?
3. 03
   After a collision. What is the designed descent behavior after striking a fixed object, and which systems keep working on the way down?
4. 04
   Single points of failure. Which single failures can bring the aircraft down? What happens when one motor, the battery, GPS or the radio link fails, and how many motors can it lose and still return or land under control?
5. 05
   Delivery method. How does the package reach the ground: landing, tether, or a drop from height? From what height, and how is that height safe for the items carried?
6. 06
   Drop zone. How is the delivery point verified clear of water, people and pets before release, and what happens when the check fails?
7. 07
   Incident record. How many times has this aircraft come down outside its hub in the US, where, and what did it hit? Provide dates.
8. 08
   Who gets the call. Who at the town is notified when an aircraft comes down, and how fast? Who recovers it, and who cleans up?
9. 09
   Sound level. How loud is the aircraft at 50, 100 and 250 feet, in hover and in cruise, in dBA? Your FAA filing's Technical Noise Report has these numbers; provide them and say what each compares with.
10. 10
    Pitch. What frequency does the aircraft produce? Two drones at the same dBA can sound very different, and a high whine carries and annoys more than a low hum. Has annoyance been measured, not only level, and where?
11. 11
    Overflight frequency. How many flights a day will pass over a given street at full build-out, and how often will one home be overflown? The FAA daily cap and operating area make this calculable.
12. 12
    Cameras and data. What do the aircraft's cameras and sensors record over private property, who can see it, how long is it kept, and is any of it shared with police or sold?
13. 13
    Liability. If an aircraft or package damages property, injures someone or starts a fire, who pays, under what insurance, and how does a resident file a claim?
14. 14
    Weather limits. At what wind speed, rain, temperature and visibility do flights stop, and who decides? What happens to aircraft already airborne?
15. 15
    Show up. Will the operator send an engineer, not only a communications representative, to a public meeting, and who is the on-record contact afterward?

Every operator gets the same set on the same terms. Answers publish in full, on the operator's page, the day they arrive.