Originally Posted by
Sport_Pilot
Actually I have, when I lived in Myrtle Beach there were a lot of issues with some of the banner tow operators. Some of them were cited for flying too low over boats and assemblies. Seems they did not want to be 1000 feet over or 2000 feet from the beach. Lots of residents complained about the banner tow planes flying too low over their houses as well, Seems they did not wait till they got to altitude before turning into land. Thing is that at first the FAA did nothing but argue with local authority about jurisdiction as the local police were charging them with disturbing the peace, reckless endangerment, etc. IMO the FAA and IRA need to go.
Sounds like the FAA at it's best.
The banner operators got fined piles of money? Went to jail? Were told to stop doing it? Or just told to follow the rules?