Spain Drone Fine

[EricJT]

In the email you received, hover over the "from" email address and see what it says.....more than likely, not from the Spanish government.....otherwise, ignore it and never travel to Spain again.

Thx Mark...my memory span is becoming more inverse to my age.

 

[MARK (LI)]

OP says he got it "in the mail"...not by email....I still think he made this up

 

[MS Coast]

OP says he got it "in the mail"...not by email....I still think he made this up

Exactly. There have been no further posts from @Kellyjb . And I've just noticed that this was their first and only post here.

I assume he/she is amused at how seriously some folks have taken the fable.

 

[Bad Santa]

Exactly. There have been no further posts from @Kellyjb . And I've just noticed that this was their first and only post here.

I assume he/she is amused at how seriously some folks have taken the fable.

Yeah, I'd agree.
One and done. Joined, one post, never heard from again.

 

[paulhackerllc]

OP says he got it "in the mail"...not by email....I still think he made this up

This is somewhat related. A few years ago, I rented a car at Heathrow, drove around London for a couple weeks, came home to the states and received a fine in the mail with pictures of the rental car and location where they said I made the infraction.The supplied photos were dated before I even arrived in England.

The rental car company immediately sucked $200 x 2 fines from the credit card I used to rent the car. After calling the rental car company a few times, they eventually told me that the person who rented the car before me got two infractions and didn’t pay them, so they were going to pass the bill off to me. So, I had to fight it with my credit card company.

 

[GroovyGeek]

Tarragona is under controlled airspace, so you probably appeared on the local Aeroscope as there's an airport nearby. The ways of being busted are basically this:

1. You were naive enough to put your operator ID on the Fly App, so the drone was emitting your data through RID/Aeroscope.
2. You used a real email on the DJI app, like for example “[email protected]”. Your DJI email is shared through Aeroscope, so that's how they got it.

I was not aware that it is even possible to put operator ID in the Fly app. Did I miss something? But as result of this thread I did change my DJI login email to a throwaway Gmail address.