Originally Posted by
porcia83
Nice, perhaps it would have come in handy for dealing with this kind of person:
http://nypost.com/2016/07/25/drone-p...t-jfk-airport/
Perhaps a chance for authorities to make an example of.....in a very public, expensive, and painful way. If he's an AMA member and convicted, yank the membership as well.
I like the guy saying he was flying it as a hobby, not for profit. He's going to jail and/or paying a huge fine and there's nothing anyone can do to save him. With all the news reports about "drones" and close calls with aircraft, he can't say he didn't know any better. My bigger concern with this situation is the pilot said "within 50 feet and 20 feet down" and flying at roughly 200MPH while on final. With the amount of suction those engines have, the jetliner is lucky it didn't eat that quad and force the pilot to have to land on one engine