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<blockquote data-quote="I B Spectre" data-source="post: 106264" data-attributes="member: 18605"><p>I get the impression it's more than "for just flying a camera drone". The guy stated, "I usually fly my drone out really far to capture nice shots". I gather from this he did not have the required VLOS. According to AirMap, Caesar's Palace is near the center of Class B airspace denoted as <em>from the surface</em>. If he wasn't flying under Part 107 with FAA authorization, he was clearly violating the regs. From the southeast corner of Caesar's parking garage to the approach end of McCarran Rwy 19R is right at 3km to the southest. I presume the ferris wheel he wanted to shoot was the High Roller which is 996m almost due east. He was in a very congested metropolitan area with significant vehicular and pedestrian traffic, most likely with a lot of WiFi . I have no idea of the wind situation that day or how long it took his Phantom 3 to drift the 3km, but he can thank his lucky stars it finally landed <em>next</em> to an active runway and not on it. The FAA stated "...this individual did not respond to any of the letters we sent him and did not avail himself of the appeals process so the time to appeal expired without him ever filing one.”, thus compounding his problem.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="I B Spectre, post: 106264, member: 18605"] I get the impression it's more than "for just flying a camera drone". The guy stated, "I usually fly my drone out really far to capture nice shots". I gather from this he did not have the required VLOS. According to AirMap, Caesar's Palace is near the center of Class B airspace denoted as [I]from the surface[/I]. If he wasn't flying under Part 107 with FAA authorization, he was clearly violating the regs. From the southeast corner of Caesar's parking garage to the approach end of McCarran Rwy 19R is right at 3km to the southest. I presume the ferris wheel he wanted to shoot was the High Roller which is 996m almost due east. He was in a very congested metropolitan area with significant vehicular and pedestrian traffic, most likely with a lot of WiFi . I have no idea of the wind situation that day or how long it took his Phantom 3 to drift the 3km, but he can thank his lucky stars it finally landed [I]next[/I] to an active runway and not on it. The FAA stated "...this individual did not respond to any of the letters we sent him and did not avail himself of the appeals process so the time to appeal expired without him ever filing one.”, thus compounding his problem. [/QUOTE]
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