ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Flyover rights

Okay kiddo, so imagine you're playing with your toy airplanes and you want to fly from your room to your friend's house across the street. But what if your toy airplane can't fly over your neighbor's house because they don't want you to fly over their yard?

That's where flyover rights come in. Flyover rights are basically permission to fly over someone else's property. Think of it like asking your neighbor if you can fly your toy airplane over their yard to get to your friend's house.

But in real life, flyover rights are more complicated. For example, airplanes need to fly in certain routes to get from one place to another. Sometimes these routes go over private property or even other countries! So instead of asking individual people for permission, governments and airlines negotiate flyover rights with each other.

This means that if a plane wants to fly over a country, they need permission to do so. Governments can set rules and charge fees for planes to fly over their land, just like how you might ask for a dollar from a friend to use their toy airplane in a game.

So there you have it, flyover rights are basically the permission to fly over someone else's property or land. Whether it's for toy airplanes or real airplanes, it's important to follow the rules and get permission from those who own the land.