"Drone" at the White House
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First thing is a violation of a TFR.
FAA can't legally do anything more than that.
Now for what punishment the SS could swing, not too sure.
But to do it at 3am is very suspect.......
FAA can't legally do anything more than that.
Now for what punishment the SS could swing, not too sure.
But to do it at 3am is very suspect.......
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It's not the first time someone has crashed a plane into the White House. It wasn't the "end of aviation" when it happened...but times have changed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Eugene_Corder
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Eugene_Corder
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Spotted by a guy on the ground? What happened to the rooftop surveilance and detection system? And I as I recall there are supposed to be something like Phalanx systems up there.
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I think we should bring back tarring and feathering for all the Drone Idiots out there....line them up at Joe Knoll and let everybody take shots at them. Jeez our reactionary government will surely do something to restrict model aviation. The average person, including government bureaucrats, has no knowledge of the AMA and will certainly blame ALL modelers for this type of behavior. Restrictions ARE coming, just a matter of time
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I don't buy that it was a DJI. I was under the impression that DJI had programing (maybe only the new inspire?) that did not allow their craft to fly at all within a radius of airports and other restricted areas.
Unless the alleged pilot did not read the instructions and tried to fly anyway, without calibrating the GPS. That would also explain the crash..........Also what I don't buy is the fact
that 3am a government employee was flying a multi-rotor. I smell a cover story.........
Unless the alleged pilot did not read the instructions and tried to fly anyway, without calibrating the GPS. That would also explain the crash..........Also what I don't buy is the fact
that 3am a government employee was flying a multi-rotor. I smell a cover story.........
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http://www.dji.com/fly-safe/category-mc
The White House is just over 3 miles from Reagan National, so a Phantom could easily be flown around the White House area and at altitudes up to a couple of hundred feet.
In addition, this software is only operative on the Phantom 2 series of DJI quads and only if the most current software is uploaded to the quad.
The DJI "Fly Safe" is a joke. In the LA area only LAX, John Wayne and Ontario are in the database. Long Beach, Bob Hope, Van Nuys, Los Alamitos, Torrance, Chino, Whiteman, Hawthorne, Santa Monica, and El Monte are all absent from their database. So an uninformed DJI owner could fire it up and fly near any of those airports thinking he is good to go based on DJI's flawed "Fly Safe" software.