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Trappy's NYC flight under FAA investigation

Posted by Chris Anderson on February 7, 2011 at 12:30pm

Gary at sUAS News reports:

"sUAS News recently asked FAA Associate Administrator for Aviation Safety, Peggy Gilligan about the First Person View flight undertaken in New York by Austrian Raphael Pirker.

As Associate Administrator, Ms. Gilligan leads the organization responsible for setting, overseeing, and enforcing safety standards for all parts of the aviation industry – airlines, manufacturers, repair stations, pilots, mechanics, air traffic controllers, and any person or product that operates in aviation. These programs have a direct impact on every facet of domestic and international civil aviation safety.

We are very grateful that Ms Gilligan took the time to answer, heres what she said.

“This event remains under investigation by FAA as well as by some law enforcement organizations in the NYC area.  We do intend to notify the operator of the investigation — although I understand he is not a US citizen and we believe he is not in the US”

It will be interesting to see which particular rules may or may not have been broken during Trappys flight."

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  • Paul Mather February 11, 2011 at 7:38pm
    Duane, what picture?
  • Duane Brocious February 11, 2011 at 7:24pm
    I hate to see the fun end but I think you are right.
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    Chris Anderson February 11, 2011 at 7:23pm
    I'm going to close this thread this evening. I think everyone has had their say.
  • Paul Mather February 11, 2011 at 7:22pm
    Who took what picture?
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    Chris Anderson February 11, 2011 at 7:22pm
    bGatti: You wrote "This thread was started by Chris - as a personally directed comment on a political / government investigation. Though most threads avoid the personal and political, this thread, by its title would appear (to its subject), as little more than a Roast."

    Please examine the post again. There is absolutely no editorializing from me. I simply quoted Gary's post verbatim with as factual a headline as it is possible to write. Are you confusing Gary's words with mine?
  • Duane Brocious February 11, 2011 at 7:00pm

    If the FAA follows the law (OMB 119) the FAA can not accept anything but production, management and inspection standards... not safety standards. They also make "the standard" a "the Fed standard" applicable to everyone, not just the CBO. The CBO has to also agree to put their standard documentation into the public domain.

    Far to much on this issue that nobody is revealing (the FAA is forbidden to)

    Lots of grounds for what ,even I, have been predicting to make it go away as illegal regulations, unconstitutional and beyond the power granted to the FAA by OMB-119.

  • Duane Brocious February 11, 2011 at 5:49pm

    Last I checked in the USA we can still do legal things if nobody/nothing gets hurt/damaged.

    No law broken = no criminal charges and no damages = no civil case.

    Thats the way it is in the USA. Anyone here live where that is different?

  • Duane Brocious February 11, 2011 at 5:44pm

    HappyK wrote:" I am not in favor of absurd laws"

    Just ones that you are claiming Trappy broke?

    Or is it that if Trappy gets FPV banned in NYC that absurd law is OK?

    Or do you want to make everything that you think is irresponsible made illegal?

     

    Can I do that too? Hmmm.... Anything other than under two pound electrics below 400' is irresponsible and the people flying anything else are ruining the hobby. No, not absurd at all.

    Anything you approve of is OK, everyone else is a jerk and their opinions are worthless?

    Glad the US doesn't work that way. 

     

    BTW Who took your picture?

  • bGatti February 11, 2011 at 5:39pm
    Happy,
    This thread was started by Chris - as a personally directed comment on a political / government investigation. Though most threads avoid the personal and political, this thread, by its title would appear (to its subject), as little more than a Roast. All convention suggests that Trappy is entitled to the full range of expression in the course of his own Roast. And in that Vein, I enjoyed the videos for sheer existential reasons.
  • Paul Mather February 11, 2011 at 4:33pm

    I believe I called the stunt idiotic....and then stated the obvious. Language like that will get you banned from a forum like this.

     

    I did find the site rules: http://diydrones.com/profiles/blogs/the-diy-drones-mission-aka-the but they are open to interpretation.

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