Posted on 07/09/2014 4:51:02 AM PDT by FlJoePa
Someone is doing something! Quick- does he need a license for that? No? Quick- create a regulation and design a pretty license layout!
As for danger to aircraft- hello, it’s a fireworks display!
So no one was aware or pissed May 4 or until a video appeared letting the world know the FAA failed to see the remote controlled device so now the FAA is playing catch-up.
Figures
Control! We must have control!
Someone did something new! We must imprison them!
“The FAA is looking into multiple incidents in which unmanned aircraft flew into fireworks displays to determine if there was any violation of federal regulations or airspace restrictions,” the agency said in a statement to The Palm Beach Post.”
Do they regulate kites and paper planes too? How about
helium party balloons? The only thing more painful than
a tooth ache to a government bureaucrat is any unregulated
freedom.
I envision a bank of cubicles with a dozen or so well-paid FAA employees scouring youtube and other videos for inappropriate use of drones. Of course, most of their time is probably spent watching porn and kitten videos.
So if the plane was in the approved and regulated fire works display then what is the issue..I don’t get it.
Awesome!
Awesome
The airspace was cleared for incendiary explosions, not a non-exploding toy plane.
Or, someone achieved excellence and made all other drone pilots look bad. Can't have that. lol
interesting that it is not patriotic music for the fourth of July fireworks.
Pull up Captain. I believe we’re takin’ flack.
The video was taken in May during SunFest over the intracoastal waterway. WPB on the left, Palm Beach on the right. I didn’t listen to the audio, but I’m sure it was edited in after the footage was shot.
Here’s a better video of the same thing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9KZ3jgbbmI&feature=youtu.be
Ooops, dupe of #10.
I can understand if there were 50 of them flying around. That could cause a problem. It may get to the point where there are just too many flying around. Rules will have to made for safety reasons only.....SAFETY ONLY. I just hope the DHS (lol) doesn’t start in with terrorist labels on this hobby..especially when our borders are wide open.
The purpose of any such regulations is to prevent collisions between drones and planes. No pilot is going to fly his plane through a fireworks display, so the presence of the drone is irrelevant to flight safety.
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