Wednesday, June 11, 2014

Man loses one drone on top of AT&T Stadium, flies another way too high over downtown Dallas

A local drone-cam operator’s catching a lot of flak today after he lost his DJI Phantom Vision on top of AT&T Stadium. And it’s not because he lost his expensive toy.

Per Federal Aviation Administration operating standards, model aircraft operators cannot “fly model aircraft higher than 400 feet above the surface.” AT&T Stadium’s only about 300 feet tall, so no problem there — other than the fact he was also in violation of another FAA rule that says model aircraft must keep a “sufficient distance from populated areas.”

Read more here:   http://thescoopblog.dallasnews.com

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