Per LA times:
— The FAA has issued a temporary ban on flights around the Oroville Dam. Stated reason: to allow emergency aircraft to operate safely.
This ban goes to May 17. Yet today there is no helicopters operating.
The ban includes drones.
I understand a flight safety concern, but this cuts off a valuable source of news video images. If it weren’t for the Fox 10 copter video the “bubbles” in the water near the emergency spillway would not have been captured (& be public).
I guess we’ll have to “trust” our government to keep us accurately appraised..
Thanks. One of our younger relatives had heard of a no fly zone up there somewhere.
I told him, that I wasn’t aware of it.
Now I know.
Wonder if any of the private U2’s can be hired by a Brit news agency to keep us posted on what really is happening.