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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Aside from the airport scenario it is very easy to jam the drone connection without disrupting the normal operations of the event and make it crash or automatically land. People don’t want to risk their drone or getting caught.
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A football (soccer) game between Serbia and Albania was abandoned because a drone flew in with a “Greater Albania” flag. As you can imagine, there was quite a shitstorm afterwards. The debate whether UEFA handled the situation properly will never end.
A football (soccer) game between Serbia and Albania was abandoned because a drone flew in with a “Greater Albania” flag. As you can imagine, there was quite a shitstorm afterwards. The debate whether UEFA handled the situation properly will never end.
A football (soccer) game between Serbia and Albania was abandoned because a drone flew in with a “Greater Albania” flag. As you can imagine, there was quite a shitstorm afterwards. The debate whether UEFA handled the situation properly will never end.
It’s pretty easy to prevent drones from flying where they shouldn’t. Most commercial ones have no fly zones programmed into them and this can’t always be easily circumvented on those that fly using a GPS system. There are also drone jammers available that many facilities use to prevent most commercial drones from being able to fly in those areas.
Those are the most common methods employed which prevents the majority of people from flying a drone where they shouldn’t. Then again there’s a countermeasure for seemingly everything if someone is dead set on doing it. After all drones can be highly customisable and if someone knows what measure they’re trying to get past they can make a drone that circumvents it.
But that leads us to the issue of motive. Why would someone go through so much trouble to fly a drone in the super bowl or over a golf course. What do they stand to gain from it? They do have a lot to lose if caught and just like they can circumvent security measures, they can also be tracked and caught. A drone can’t have infinite range and even if it has enormous range this makes it easier to track the control signal. Do not doubt that people are using drones for nefarious purposes, such as drug trafficking, spying, or other things, but those drones you won’t see flying on national tv.
It’s pretty easy to prevent drones from flying where they shouldn’t. Most commercial ones have no fly zones programmed into them and this can’t always be easily circumvented on those that fly using a GPS system. There are also drone jammers available that many facilities use to prevent most commercial drones from being able to fly in those areas.
Those are the most common methods employed which prevents the majority of people from flying a drone where they shouldn’t. Then again there’s a countermeasure for seemingly everything if someone is dead set on doing it. After all drones can be highly customisable and if someone knows what measure they’re trying to get past they can make a drone that circumvents it.
But that leads us to the issue of motive. Why would someone go through so much trouble to fly a drone in the super bowl or over a golf course. What do they stand to gain from it? They do have a lot to lose if caught and just like they can circumvent security measures, they can also be tracked and caught. A drone can’t have infinite range and even if it has enormous range this makes it easier to track the control signal. Do not doubt that people are using drones for nefarious purposes, such as drug trafficking, spying, or other things, but those drones you won’t see flying on national tv.
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