Helicopters near the Super Bowl are cleared to be there and are flown by vetted professional pilots. A human pilot in a helicopter presumably has some kind of qualification to be there while a drone (although I don't like that word) could be flown by any moron with a couple hundred bucks. I also think the government is going completely overboard with the "drone threat" but in the case of the Super Bowl, there should definitely be a reasonable restriction on drone flights, ANY flight for that matter. I think reasonable drone pilots would agree with that.
Steven Naslund Chicago IL -----Original Message----- From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of valdis.kletni...@vt.edu Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2016 9:46 AM To: Rafael Possamai Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: ICYMI: FBI looking into LA fiber cuts, Super Bowl On Tue, 19 Jan 2016 15:41:31 -0600, Rafael Possamai said: > I fail to see how drones relate to fiber cuts and the superbowl. Did > the article author just throw that in there? The news helicopter > getting aerial footage also poses a risk, so not sure what's special about > drones. Drones don't cost $200 per hour to keep in the air, and they're not as obvious as a helicopter. So it becomes a lot easier to get in there and grab some unauthorized video....
