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