Drone Question

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Originally Posted by garysanfran

For flying a drone over the 49r's game and then an hour later, over the Raiders game. Not sure how they found him. Some potential scary stuff...Yes, my question about flying over Comm Ave. was a serious one.

There's a drone race on TV that I've seen a few times with total amazement. Very talented pilots.

He was located by utilizing a number of high resolution security cameras that ring the stadium. Because of signal interference near the stadium, do to the spectrum in use, he was fairly close to the event and easily identified.

Again, there are FAA regulations (and APP would have shown those restrictions) that prevented his flight (without a waiver) and the authorities responded quickly and made a swift arrest. Great job by the local authorities!

As with anything is life, there are people that will abuse this technology. But given that it is estimated that there are well in excess of 7 million drones flying in the US, as always the very few violators get way too much exposure by an audience seeking media....