The FAA is crying foul at a Major League Baseball team. The Washington Nationals used a drone to take pictures of the team during spring training. Problem is they didn’t get permission. And commercial drone use is banned.
“We didn’t get it cleared, but we don’t get our pop flies cleared either and those go higher than this thing did,” a team official told the Associated Press.
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Oh great! Now they're going to have to start filing a flight plan for each pitch in case they hit a pop fly. As if baseball wasn't boring enough already...
This is crazy! A judge agrees that no laws exist covering UAVs, so the FAA says that since no laws exist, then its illegal (?)
What warped circular logic is this!
FAA is saying: "If regulations do not exist on any airborne object, then it is banned from flying in the airspace of these United States."
In that case, we can include baseballs, footballs, tennis balls, birds, butterflies, locust, moths, flying ants, bees, wasps, and of course...drones.
Regarding the video of the plane hitting the car, I'm pretty sure that an uncontrolled field that allows cars to drive around on it's taxiways with no regulatory signs or authority is going to have a hard time blaming the driver for not knowing what a hold short bar is. Also, note the glide path of the plane. If the car wasn't there, it would have still landed short of the runway on the overrun. The pilot was already wrong before the crash happened. The driver was oblivious of something that that they couldn't possibly know and aren't legally required to know.
1) I love the team's response. Classic. Thank you.
2) I think a federal judge might beg to differ with the FAA, again.
3) Thank god a commercial airliner flying inside the stadium didn't hit it....
Lol @ FAA
Seriously though, when are they going to start creating laws and regulations concerning these baseballs? I mean, they're heavy and hard, could hurt someone, and once these "ball drones" get launched they're on a pre-programmed course!! Sometimes pretty high, sometimes beyond line of sight (well, my eyesight sucks so...)! And really, operating a baseball in close proximity to people, its reckless, the AMA would NOT approve!!!!
lol.
The interesting thing with all of this is the fact that the FAA has done such a completely inept and irresponsible job of actually establishing legally eforceable regulations in the first place.
This really points to a methodology of bullying, basically saying that because we are the FAA we can say or do whatever we want by simply saying it you have to do it.
They seem to have no respect or consideration at all for the legal system which makes up the rules the rest of us have to live by.
They are composed of regulations, but they just haven't bothered at all to make any genuine legally backed regulations that cover the infractions they are claiming.
This whole mess is on the FAA, it is entirely their own fault and they are trying to get the courts to back their own stupid actions with no legal basis for doing so.
They are basically saying it isn't safe so we have decided they aren't allowed to do it - actual rules to come later, but you need to prosecute them now.
What complete garbage!
We've got planes landing on cars at airports but little league games are far more important-
They are just going to be ridiculous now.
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