Update:
On Thursday, 1/22/2026, I was contacted by an FAA official and engaged in a short telephone interview to clarify the facts I presented in the initial report. Soon after the telephone call, I received an email informing me to confirm that...
Here's an example of someone shining a laser at a manned aircraft and you can compare that to shining a laser at an unmanned aircraft when you think about federal prosecutors or juries. I'll leave this here...
I might be out of line here but I've said it in previous posts before. If you put a strobe light on top of your drone (day or night) in an attempt to catch the attention of all the manned flights all around you (for 3 miles) then you might be...
From 2000 ft, the plane wouldn't have seen your drone or had any way to know you were flying there.
The minimum safe altitude rules allow flight below 500 feet in sparsely populated areas and over open water, so what would you report the pilot for?