Originally Posted by init4fun

And do you really think the feds would have brought those charges if this rich celebrity had blasted the spying intruder drone on his own property , really ? Sorry RG , I don't . I think since he's a rich celebrity he'd have been let go Scot free and the drone operator would be the one facing charges . This nonsense of a hobbyist's model plane or a hobbyist's drone being a "real aircraft" akin to full scale manned craft as defined by law is perfectly ripe to be shot down by the next hotshot "F Lee Bailey" type lawyer who takes a case of some trespassing unmanned picture taking toy getting blasted outta the sky , and to me it can't happen soon enough so we stop hearing the "toy plane = real aircraft" nonsense the FAA has chosen fit to hide it's latest regulatory power grab under the guise of .