Federal Charges for these knuckleheads - good!!

AirStag · Sep 22, 2022

I'm happy to see these people get charged!

2 men accused of flying drones over Reds, Bengals games indicted on federal charges

A man accused of flying a drone over Great American Ballpark and another man accused of doing the same thing during a Bengals game have been indicted.

www.cincinnati.com

kenautelevo2pro · Sep 22, 2022

"Even if the operator does not have an intent to harm the operator could easily lose control and injure someone."

herein2021 · Sep 22, 2022

AirStag said:
I'm happy to see these people get charged!

2 men accused of flying drones over Reds, Bengals games indicted on federal charges

A man accused of flying a drone over Great American Ballpark and another man accused of doing the same thing during a Bengals game have been indicted.

www.cincinnati.com

People like these ruin it for everyone. This is why, as much as I hate DJI's geofencing, I fully understand why they have it in place. Speaking of which, they must have been flying non-DJI drones.

AirStag · Sep 22, 2022

herein2021 said:
People like these ruin it for everyone. This is why, as much as I hate DJI's geofencing, I fully understand why they have it in place. Speaking of which, they must have been flying non-DJI drones.

This is the Bengals game:
I beleive I saw a photo on Twitter when it happened and it looked like a Mavic mini, maybe...

Madhungarian · Sep 22, 2022

herein2021 said:
People like these ruin it for everyone. This is why, as much as I hate DJI's geofencing, I fully understand why they have it in place. Speaking of which, they must have been flying non-DJI drones.

tuxontodd · Sep 24, 2022

I can't believe flying an unregistered drone carries a steeper penalty than flying in a restricted area. 3 vs 1 year.

ne0031 · Sep 24, 2022

tuxontodd said:
I can't believe flying an unregistered drone carries a steeper penalty than flying in a restricted area. 3 vs 1 year.

A lot easier to levy fines and cause grief just by saying "let me see your paperwork." You don't even have to fly.

herein2021 · Sep 24, 2022

Madhungarian said:
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I am surprised, either it had hacked FW, or the tablet/phone was in airplane mode so it was unable to pull down the TFR. Here in FL the Tampa stadium is right next to the airport so even if there is no TFR its still restricted airspace which means this would not happen here without a FW hack or a non DJI drone.

JSTorsrud · Sep 24, 2022

Chances are these Clowns were totally uninformed Yahoos that had no clue on Drone Rules and Probably were using some cheap Camera Drone purchased at Walmart or something. No mention was made of the manufacturer of the Drones!

They deserve what they get!

herein2021 · Sep 24, 2022

JSTorsrud said:
Chances are these Clowns were totally uninformed Yahoos that had no clue on Drone Rules and Probably were using some cheap Camera Drone purchased at Walmart or something. No mention was made of the manufacturer of the Drones!

They deserve what they get!

They said in their comments section on their own video that they used DJI. Every time the FAA focuses on other things idiots like these bring drones back into the public eye for everyone. I still say it's only a matter of time before one brings down a plane or crashes into a politician's relative, or flies over the White House and we will all be shut down for good.

mixchief · Sep 25, 2022

AirStag said:
This is the Bengals game:

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I beleive I saw a photo on Twitter when it happened and it looked like a Mavic mini, maybe...

What an idiot

Madhungarian · Sep 25, 2022

herein2021 said:
I am surprised, either it had hacked FW, or the tablet/phone was in airplane mode so it was unable to pull down the TFR. Here in FL the Tampa stadium is right next to the airport so even if there is no TFR its still restricted airspace which means this would not happen here without a FW hack or a non DJI drone.

Probably hacked, there are a few sites you can use to do this. I never knew you can put the phone in airplane mode to bypass the geofencing.

herein2021 · Sep 25, 2022

Madhungarian said:
Probably hacked, there are a few sites you can use to do this. I never knew you can put the phone in airplane mode to bypass the geofencing.

It won't bypass it, but it won't be able to pull down TFRs or new geofenced boundaries, and it only works if you never start the app with a cell signal. When I used DJI drones I had a dedicated iPad and it never left airplane mode, so the database never got updated from 2016 when I first installed the app. Since TFRs don't last very long, if you are in airplane mode then they are the most likely to never get into the database.

It is also possible that it was not in airplane mode but the cell towers were so congested that the app never had enough bandwidth to pull down the update. During big events cell traffic gets pretty congested.