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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As someone who works at a ballpark, they do fly them in. On average we get one per game. They have software that tracks it and locates the operator. The police are very quick to go have a chat with them.
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.
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.
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.
Because most people aren’t malicious by nature, and most people just generally are to lazy to actually actively try and cause havoc just for the laughs.
Like would it be cool to shut down LAX by flying a drone? Hell yeah, but would I do it? Hell nah, cus then I’d have to learn how to fly a drone, afford a drone, not crash the drone, and plan when I’d actually want to shut LAX down.
That’s not including preventing myself from being caught and what not.
Basically the answer for “why doesn’t someone commit this obviously easy to get away with crime?” Is because crime isn’t complicated and takes effort if you don’t want to go to prison.
Because most people aren’t malicious by nature, and most people just generally are to lazy to actually actively try and cause havoc just for the laughs.
Like would it be cool to shut down LAX by flying a drone? Hell yeah, but would I do it? Hell nah, cus then I’d have to learn how to fly a drone, afford a drone, not crash the drone, and plan when I’d actually want to shut LAX down.
That’s not including preventing myself from being caught and what not.
Basically the answer for “why doesn’t someone commit this obviously easy to get away with crime?” Is because crime isn’t complicated and takes effort if you don’t want to go to prison.
Because most people aren’t malicious by nature, and most people just generally are to lazy to actually actively try and cause havoc just for the laughs.
Like would it be cool to shut down LAX by flying a drone? Hell yeah, but would I do it? Hell nah, cus then I’d have to learn how to fly a drone, afford a drone, not crash the drone, and plan when I’d actually want to shut LAX down.
That’s not including preventing myself from being caught and what not.
Basically the answer for “why doesn’t someone commit this obviously easy to get away with crime?” Is because crime isn’t complicated and takes effort if you don’t want to go to prison.
As someone who owns a drone and half of my property is in our municipal airports airspace, they can take over the drone. Whatever channel it’s on can be overridden. They give you plenty of fair warning first.
As someone who owns a drone and half of my property is in our municipal airports airspace, they can take over the drone. Whatever channel it’s on can be overridden. They give you plenty of fair warning first.
As someone who owns a drone and half of my property is in our municipal airports airspace, they can take over the drone. Whatever channel it’s on can be overridden. They give you plenty of fair warning first.
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