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Hollywood Man Arrested For Crashing Drone Into LAPD Chopper
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) – A Hollywood man was arrested Thursday on federal charges that he operated a drone which slammed into a Los Angeles Police Department helicopter back in September, forcing it to make an emergency landing. Andrew Rene Hernandez, 22, was arrested by FBI agents on one count of unsafe operation of an unmanned aircraft, the U.S. Attorney’s Office reports. Authorities say it’s the first criminal case in the nation in which a person has been charged with unsafely operating a drone. (losangeles.cbslocal.com) Plus d'info...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
This is nonsense and all of you know it all’s are falling for it. From the looks of it, it appears to be a DJI Mavic Air, which weighs 430 grams. That’s less than 1 pound....you’re going to tell me that less than 1 pound of plastic is going to do any damage to any aircraft? Common sense tells me this is bs. Ok, so the FBI is involved...I don’t think I’d hang my hat on their credibility lately, either. Sounds like a guy flying his quad in the wrong place at the wrong time and the LAPD saw the drone (if they really saw it...I doubt it) and they’re using this guy as an example for the wrong reasons. There is ZERO evidence that one of these can take down an aircraft. Pilots hit birds, geese all of the time - many of which are much heavier than a little one pound plastic drone. It’s popular to be anti-UAV, especially during these hyper-safety focused times where we’ve allowed ourselves to believe EVERYTHING that we’re told by the government under the guise of safety. And to the old codgers who brag about how great model RC are and how people there are “trained” and they have “fun”. Get real. Not everyone needs to hang around other flyers on your membership only paid flight area where you only allow one at a time to fly and everyone else is forced to stand around and wait and listen to old men tell war stories The freedom a quad brings a pilot is unmatched. I agree, some people are stupid with them. But they’re few and far between but get all of the bad press. Quads with GPS and built in fail safe measures are exponentially safer than any so called “real” rc aircraft that you fly at your fake airport that you go to for BBQ picnics and to collect dues from members. That’s all you do. You guys (the AMA) got your rears handed to you by lobbyists for Amazon and retailers who seek to control the airspace that is now still safe for all and was before. The only thing changing is they want total control over the airspace 400 feet and below so THEY can manipulate it and they don’t want any liability or any recreational fliers in their way. And you let them win. No new AMA model fields are to ever be built in the future. None. Zero. Not the fault of drone fliers because we NEVER fly at your stupid bbq fund raising fake airports. It’s your fault you didn’t fight for your rights. We can still fly and still will within the legal limits, although more restricted than it should be. Little plastic drones do NOT take down giant metal aircraft. There is ZERO proof that they do. Enough of the paranoia and piling on.
This is nonsense and all of you know it all’s are falling for it. From the looks of it, it appears to be a DJI Mavic Air, which weighs 430 grams. That’s less than 1 pound....you’re going to tell me that less than 1 pound of plastic is going to do any damage to any aircraft? Common sense tells me this is bs. Ok, so the FBI is involved...I don’t think I’d hang my hat on their credibility lately, either. Sounds like a guy flying his quad in the wrong place at the wrong time and the LAPD saw the drone (if they really saw it...I doubt it) and they’re using this guy as an example for the wrong reasons. There is ZERO evidence that one of these can take down an aircraft. Pilots hit birds, geese all of the time - many of which are much heavier than a little one pound plastic drone. Round those birds up and throw them in jail for endangering everyone’s safety. It’s popular to be anti-UAV, especially during these hyper-safety focused times where we’ve allowed ourselves to believe EVERYTHING that we’re told by the government under the guise of safety. And to the old codgers who brag about how great model RC are and how people there are “trained” and they have “fun”. Get real. Not everyone needs to hang around other flyers on your membership only paid flight area where you only allow one at a time to fly and everyone else is forced to stand around and wait and listen to old men tell war stories or bitch about stuff. The freedom a quad brings a pilot is unmatched. I agree, some people are stupid with them. But they’re few and far between but get all of the bad press. Quads with GPS and built in fail safe measures are exponentially safer than any so called “real” rc aircraft that you fly at your fake airport that you go to for BBQ picnics and to collect dues from members. That’s all you do. You guys (the AMA) got your asses handed to you by lobbyists for Amazon and retailers who seek to control the airspace that is now still safe for all and was before. The only thing changing is they want total control over the airspace 400 feet and below so THEY can manipulate it abd they don’t want any liability or any recreational fliers in their way. And you let them win. No new AMA model fields are to ever be built in the future. None. Zero. Not the fault of drone fliers because we NEVER fly at your stupid bbq fund raising fake airports. It’s your fault you didn’t fight for your rights. We can still fly abd still will within the legal limits, although more restricted than it should be. Little plastic drones do NOT take down giant metal aircraft. There is ZERO proof that they do. Enough of the paranoia and piling on.
The 90% of all drone operators that are out there doing stupid crap like this make it really difficult for the 10% of us who are properly licensed, who follow the regs, and who use common sense. We keep getting lumped in with those idiots and those idiots have alienated the AMA and R/C flyers to the point that they don't even want to hear anything you say after, "I fly a drone..." They hear those words and in their mind you're automatically an idiot, an ahole, and just generally a target for derision and abuse. You could be the safest, most highly trained, rule® following maniac and it doesn't matter to them.
I used to fly my drones at my buddy's place, a 400-acre farm surrounded by woods and well clear of any local airport. We always stayed above his property, never went above treetop height, and got nothing but grief for it from some of the local R/C flyers. They called the sheriff on us twice, made up complaints about us supposedly breaking all kinds of regs, then started harassing us, buzzing his house a couple of times with their planes. Eventually, we just stopped flying. My drones have been sitting packed away in their hardcases for a couple of years now.
I used to fly my drones at my buddy's place, a 400-acre farm surrounded by woods and well clear of any local airport. We always stayed above his property, never went above treetop height, and got nothing but grief for it from some of the local R/C flyers. They called the sheriff on us twice, made up complaints about us supposedly breaking all kinds of regs, then started harassing us, buzzing his house a couple of times with their planes. Eventually, we just stopped flying. My drones have been sitting packed away in their hardcases for a couple of years now.
Wow, you need to be your own protected class. Maybe a college fund or something...intolerance is destroying the US.
What the heck are you talking about with a college fund? I got my degrees more than 35 years ago.
It was a joke...what "Protected Class" does not have a college fund? ;-)