GOP investigating why drones were shut down over migrant camp

[Drone_Pilot]

GOP investigates FAA drone ban that shut down coverage of migrant camp

Republican investigators demanded answers Tuesday from the Federal Aviation Administration over its decision last week to impose a ban on drone flights near the Texas migrant camp that sprang up on the banks of the Rio Grande.

www.washingtontimes.com

 

[clackey]

Just a reminder - no politics in the comments, please

 

[Deleted member 103366]

Surely common sense says "too many people underneath" i.e. if something goes wrong and a drone crashes then there is an increased chance of someone getting hurt. Especially if you have multiple fliers buzzing around trying to capture 'must have' footage for their social media broadcast.
Isn't it also a working bridge?

 

[Drone_Pilot]

It has nothing to do with the bridge or how many people were under it. It has to do with the FAA implementing a TFR which then became publicized in the news and the FAA lifted the TFR and FOX NEWS drone resumed their news coverage.

They were not allowing photographers in the ground to cover the story but they were not prepared for fox news drone to be up in the air.

 

[zeusfl]

I agree. I guess the fact is too many people and in case of a crash can hurt somebody.

 

[sar104]

It has nothing to do with the bridge or how many people were under it. It has to do with the FAA implementing a TFR which then became publicized in the news and the FAA lifted the TFR and FOX NEWS drone resumed their news coverage.

They were not allowing photographers in the ground to cover the story but they were not prepared for fox news drone to be up in the air.

Well that's a whole lot of misinformation packed into a short post. The TFR was not lifted - it is still in force, currently with an expiration date of September 30. What presumably happened was that Fox News applied for authorization to fly for news reporting purposes, as detailed in the NOTAM, and their request was granted.



Additionally, there was no restriction on news helicopters, so the assertion that it was done to prevent reporting makes no sense.

 

[Vic Moss]

The TFR was never political. And the press should have never started saying it was.

 

[silveij]

Without the TFR there would be many questionable drone pilots "transiting" over the migrants and LEO's increasing the chance of collisions between drones and helicopters. Authorization granted to news sources shows that there are exceptions for valid news reporting.

 

[dirkclod]

Ok guys with what the Admin posted in post # 2 seems lots just
don‘t get it .7 post deleted and not sure without taking to much

time to count the reports. This is over.
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