Posted on 07/17/2018 7:04:58 AM PDT by RitchieAprile
After almost a year of deliberation, Kitsap County has unveiled a draft of an ordinance that seeks to limit drone activity near the five Naval Base Kitsap installations in the county.
“The Navy appreciates the effort in Kitsap County to develop this draft ordinance," said Naval Base Kitsap commanding officer Capt. Alan Schrader. "As the number of (drone) sightings increase in and around Naval Base Kitsap, this ordinance will allow the Navy and local officials to have the authorities needed enforce and comply with FAA and Department of Defense rules to ensure base security."
The Federal Aviation Administration banned the flight of unmanned aerial vehicles, commonly known as drones, in the airspace above the boundaries of military installations in April 2017, yet the problem still persists.
This year alone, there have already been 16 drone overflight incidents in the airspace above Naval Base Kitsap installations, according to records recently obtained by the Kitsap Sun through a Freedom of Information Act request.
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No launching, landing within 3,000 feet of Navy installations
As it stands now, the county's proposed ordinance would establish a "protection overlay" that would extend approximately 3,000 feet from the fence lines of each Navy installation in Kitsap — Naval Base Kitsap-Bremerton and Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Jackson Park and Naval Hospital Bremerton, Bangor's submarine base, Keyport's Naval Undersea Warfare Center and and Manchester's fuel depot.
(Excerpt) Read more at kitsapsun.com ...
This paper used to be called the Bremerton Sun.
JohnnyP, West High, class of ‘65.
If you can’t use a drone within 3000 feet of an installation fence in Kitsap county and you don’t have much room to fly. /S...sorta.
Sure you do. I used to live 2 mi from Keyport, 5 mi from Bremerton shipyard and same from Bangor base.
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