Illegal or not, people do things they shouldn’t. I’m surprised we’ve never seen a drone interfering at the Super Bowl or buzzing a golfer this weekend at Augusta. Seems like they could fly in from a long way away, zip out and dodge any police and even land far away if piloted from a moving car. Almost impossible to catch mid flight. So why hasn’t some nefarious individual done this yet? Transponder type identification on those things?
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It happens all the time in Canada in national parks. It’s very illegal to fly drones without permits for alot of reasons. But spooking a heard of elk into a picnic area, or across a highway isnt great. Accidentally corner a grizzly on a trail with people on it etc.
What happened last year was bad, though: major forest fires near a townsite and primary road. Primary control was water bombers and helicopter access to bring in wildfire firefighters. Jackasses kept putting drones up to watch and forcing the bombers to pull off course and not drop where needed. And then special antidrone teams teams needed to come in and set up jammers that kills commss for everyone.
But the answer your question, in a Canadian national park it’s a 25,000 fine. And interfering with active air ops is up to 5 years in jail.
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