Originally Posted by
combatpigg
Officer O'Malley pulls up to the club field and spots a man sitting at a table, staring into a TV monitor and wiggling the sticks of his transmitter. There is no airplane anywhere in sight.
Officer O'Malley is presented with a clear cut case of drone style flying and he informs this pilot of the NOTAM. He tells this man to land the plane ASAP.
Officer O'Malley witnesses the plane gradually appear from beyond a tree line that separates this field from a shopping center, a school and the interstate highway just 4 miles away. O'Malley knows that a presidential motorcade is due to pass through some time during the day.
Officer O'Malley then proceeds to the next field and spots a man flying a 4 channel RC plane. He watches the entire flight without the pilot's awareness and notices that the plane never flys beyond what look like the boundaries of the field. After the pilot lands, the officer asks the pilot if he is aware of the NOTAM and if he is involved with flying planes out of his field of view. The pilot ensures him that he does not have any equipment with him that could make that possible. The pilot adds that the boundaries of this field and the relatively small size of the model limit him to flying no more than roughly 1000 feet in any direction before it is time to turn around and "fly home". The officer is satisfied with this pilot's answers and so he drives off to the last RC field in his territory to pass on word of the NOTAM.
Just put a box of donuts and a thermos of coffee at the gate to the field and they will never get to the flight line.