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FAA Fining 'drone' Operator. First I've heard of this.

Old 10-09-2013, 01:06 PM
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Default FAA Fining 'drone' Operator. First I've heard of this.

From a Wired article;

"...the agency (FAA), that supervises everything from air-worthiness to passenger gadget use has taken legal action for the first time against an on-ground pilot — an operator of a styrofoam, 4.5-pound Ritewing Zephyr-powered glider. The $10,000 levy (.pdf) invokes the same code section that governs the conduct of actual airline-passenger pilots, charging modeler Raphael Pirker with illegally operating a drone for commercial purposes and flying it “in a careless or reckless manner so as to endanger the life or property of another.”

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/201...-a-crossroads/

..first I've also heard of FAA sending out cease and desist letters to commercial operators.
Old 10-09-2013, 02:36 PM
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Sounds to me like he deserves the fine! That's the kind of activity that will lead to major restrictions on our models. I bet this was in response to a number of complaints from people on the ground.
Old 10-09-2013, 03:07 PM
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"flying it “in a careless or reckless manner so as to endanger the life or property of another.”
Is going to be the catch all that will be used if the drone commercial use bit gets thrown out.
It's going to be an interesting case that may impact us all.
Old 10-10-2013, 04:35 AM
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Deserving though he may be, what I found interesting, if true, is that the FAA is delivering cease-desist orders (prior to this incident), to commercial interest that have a bit more skin in the game than this guy.
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http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/th...nToDismiss.pdf

Very interesting reading, enjoy.

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