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I know what the rules are. It took quite a while but we finally forced the power companies to mark their met towers. They were intentionally building them 2 feet short so they wouldn’t have to mark them. Serval pilots died because of their murderous attitude. As a pilot, I can tell you for a fact if the tower sticks up 2 feet above the tress, it is dangerous. There is a collection of 5(?) north of the runway at Hannibal, MO that I have to fly around because they are a little taller than the trees. They are hard to spot and I nearly hit them the first time I flew out of there. The most damage I ever done to an airplane was when I flew through a dead limb sticking out above the leaves. I knocked the leading edge of the wing back to the spar and I never saw it. Dead limbs are easier to spot than a tower.
maybe so, however in my back yard and two of neighbors i have to look up at the trees when i am at the top of my tower, many pine trees in excess of 100ft in my area. lowest thing i ever saw was a drone when my back yard pool was full of strippers and all of em naked out in the sun.. the drone kinda stayed there and i bet the guys at camp lejeune had a eyefull. i had to leave, was getting kind of hard to take ...... left them there and went to my boat, put some pictures here but would probably violate a rule or two