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General control line discussion => Open Forum => Topic started by: Ward Van Duzer on October 07, 2015, 07:29:28 AM
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FAA fines drone startup SkyPan $1.9 million for illegal drone flights - Fortune
Ward
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Read the article and they had been warned several times over the last several years.
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is there an article missing ??
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It was on Yahoo & MSN internet news. If I could remember how to copy and paste again it would be here.
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It was on Yahoo & MSN internet news. If I could remember how to copy and paste again it would be here.
go to that page and push Crtl+A then Crtl+C then come to here and in your post push Crtl+V then post
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Look here
http://fortune.com/2015/10/06/faa-drone-fine-skypan/
Cheers!
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FAA fines drone startup SkyPan $1.9 million for illegal drone flights - Fortune
Ward
Good. I wonder if the AMA is going to pay it for them. D>K
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Good. I wonder if the AMA is going to pay it for them. D>K
Maybe! Then they will have an excuse to raise the membership fees again!!! %^@
Randy Cuberly
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Companies that want to use drones for commercial purposes currently have to seek FAA approval and abide by a series of guidelines, including not flying the aircraft out of the view of operators and making sure the drones don’t fly higher than 500 feet. Amateur drone enthusiasts are not regulated by the FAA, however, and the administration does not require hobbyists to obtain authorization to fly.
Looking at the last paragraph of the article is interesting in that those rules only apply to comercial use of drones.
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Another one,
http://wtop.com/dc/2015/10/drone-crashes-on-ellipse-near-white-house/
the article says it is illegal to fly a drone inside the beltway without FAA approval. As a former resident of Northern VA I am not surprised and not surprised that this happened,
I guess this is where my $75 is going to go.
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I am an AOPA member and this just arrived in my mailbox:
October 8, 2015
By Jim Moore
Some predict the number of drones sold in the U.S. will exceed 1 million by the end of the holiday season.
With a million drones expected in consumer hands by Christmas, a $1.9 million fine now sought by the FAA from one drone operator, and a growing mountain of sighting reports from pilots, members of a House committee with jurisdiction over civil aviation vented frustration and urged action during an Oct. 7 hearing.
Members of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee’s Subcommittee on Aviation also voiced concern about disrupting an unmanned aircraft industry that is already producing growing numbers of jobs and economic activity, with potential for much more.
“The key is balance, and I believe that this committee, as well as the FAA and stakeholders, continue to strive for just that,” Subcommittee Chairman Frank LoBiondo (R-N.J.) said in his opening. “The answers to these questions will be complex, though I am confident that our country can and will address them.”
One congressman suggested making drone misconduct a federal crime, subject to a year in jail and “significant” fines, though FAA Deputy Administrator Michael Whitaker said it has proved very difficult to find the perpetrators breaking rules and laws that are already on the books. Unlike laser pointers, Whitaker noted, drones are not visibly linked to their operator in a way that affected pilots can see, and report.
“One of the challenges with this issue is actually locating UAS operators," Whitaker told the lawmakers. “You look at the pilot reports… they don’t tell us where the (drone) operator is.”
Bob Z.