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FBI Confiscates Six Drones Near Super Bowl Stadium (reuters.com)
The FBI confiscated six drones in Atlanta for flying too close to the football stadium where the Super Bowl will be played Sunday, Reuters reports:
Drone flight was prohibited on Saturday and from 10 a.m. until 5:30 p.m. EST on Sunday for one nautical mile (2 km) around the Mercedes-Benz Stadium and up to an altitude of 1,000 feet (305 meters), the Federal Aviation Administration said. The FAA will establish temporary flight restriction that prohibits drones within a 30-nautical-mile radius of the stadium and up to 17,999 feet in altitude from 5:30 p.m. to 11:59 p.m. EST on Sunday, the agency said. ..
Drones "are a big concern," said Nick Annan, Homeland Security Investigations special agent in charge. "There are a few other things that are in place to mitigate drones," he added without elaborating. Operators who send drones into restricted areas around the Mercedes-Benz Stadium could face more than $20,000 in civil penalties and criminal prosecution, according to the FAA.
Drone pilots are advised to check the FAA's B4UFly app to check when and where they can fly -- and the aviation agency has also produced a slick 20-second video "encouraging Super Bowl fans to bring their lucky jerseys, face paint and team spirit to the game -- but leave their drones at home -- because the stadium and the area around it is a No Drone Zone."
Drones "are a big concern," said Nick Annan, Homeland Security Investigations special agent in charge. "There are a few other things that are in place to mitigate drones," he added without elaborating. Operators who send drones into restricted areas around the Mercedes-Benz Stadium could face more than $20,000 in civil penalties and criminal prosecution, according to the FAA.
Drone pilots are advised to check the FAA's B4UFly app to check when and where they can fly -- and the aviation agency has also produced a slick 20-second video "encouraging Super Bowl fans to bring their lucky jerseys, face paint and team spirit to the game -- but leave their drones at home -- because the stadium and the area around it is a No Drone Zone."
What is this Super Bowl thing you are talking about? You mean the handegg game? You shouldn't call it football!
-- Insufferable Eurosnob
Thank God the U.S. military and FBI are protecting the most important institution this country has.
A 30 mile radius? A little overkill I think.
What's the difference, really? And if the tether makes a difference, then if one is flying only on their own property, is that still prohibited?
File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'
People will be operating drones in that airspace at that time, not because they want
to break the law, but because they have no idea what a NOTAM or TFR is.
Commercial and/or licensed operators will hopefully be cluefull of their situation.
According to the FAA's own UAS guidelines:
Flying drones in and around stadiums is prohibited starting one hour before and ending one hour after the scheduled time of any of the following events:
Major League Baseball
National Football League
NCAA Division One Football
NASCAR Sprint Cup, Indy Car, and Champ Series races
Specifically, UAS operations are prohibited within a radius of three nautical miles of the stadium or venue.
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The part the FAA left out is that this is all subject to change, depending on how much security theater they deem is necessary for a specific sportsball event. Granted, drone pilots are supposed to check NOTAMs before flying, but it's a little unreasonable to expect any restrictions to be active days before an event.
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DRM is like antifreeze, to the MPAA/RIAA it's sweet, to the consumers it's poison.
American football is like Saturday mmnirninngg cartoons. It's. Just there to sell overpriced junk too naive subjects. Drain all the safety equipment and all the pussy rules it's more like watching WWF than watching a sport
I suspect part of the motivating concern is safety (prevention of delivery of bomb), but what they probably won't admit is that they're also *very* concerned about controlling the ability to televise the event exclusively.
The world wildlife fund?
"It's such a fine line between stupid and clever" -- David St. Hubbins, Spinal Tap
A pilot should always read their respective NOTAMS, because after the Jack Stone event there is nothing better to do for FBI folks.
As demonstrated by simulated attacks on U.S. carrier fleets, swarm warfare is extremely effective against centralized, non swarm warfare. This is similar to the introduction of Blitzkrieg versus trench warfare.
The next war will include now-impossible sounding numbers of algorithm driven small vehicles.
Events such as the Super Bowl are particularly vulnerable, and despite the privacy and liberty intrusion, I lean to the FBI stance, in this instance.
I mean, anybody got a better idea? I don't at this time...
World Wrestling Federation, then they change to WCW, then they became but it's all the same thing. It's a soap opera with a sports premise. It looks brutal but its not. It's a sports theme soap opera performance in the guise of a world championship.
Football wasn't always this way towards the beginning there they didn't have near as many rules that made the game so fucking predictable. Backyard football tends to be more brutal then professional football. Because professional football has a Thousand Rules against working smarter instead of just slamming your body into the other person. It's all sprints, and bulk muscle. Which is crap muscle. It takes more volume for the same amount of strength as if you get with lean muscle, lean muscle maintains itself, bulk muscle all turns to fat if you don't keep it up. Leading to less flexibility and a less efficient body system in general. It's just Frat Boys who didn't want to get a real job. That found a way to drain Society for ridiculous amounts of money, without ever learning to do anything useful.
Rams FTW, down with the Puncturers!
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