Seriously!!! Drones cause grounding of Aircraft fighting wild fire.

[tundrastruck]

Idiots flying UAVs in these wild fire areas is going to cause major changes in the laws. Interfering with fire fighting aircraft to properly work in the areas to extinguish fires.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/drones-delay-efforts-fight-california-wildfire/story?id=32534795

 

[Deleted member 29014]

It'll stop when they start getting booked for reckless endangerment.

 

[N017RW]

It'll stop when they start getting booked for reckless endangerment.

Won't that endanger your commercial pilot license too?

 

[hot dog]

It's the news organizations flying the drones.
ABC news even had an extra to display.
Not sure if P3P or A.

 

[snerd]

All you guys busting a gasket over how others are flying.......................... give it up! You're gonna have a heart attack or stroke!

 

[Deleted member 29014]

Too late, already had my stroke in 2013

 

[shipdriver]

I wonder if they would ground firefighting efforts because of news helicopters?

 

[SteveMann]

The TFR [link] grounds all aircraft except those operated by the National Multi-Agency Coordinating Group (NMAC). The NMAC dispatches air tankers to wildfires. Their policy is to ground all airtanker operations if an unauthorized aircraft is in the vicinity of an active wildfire. News helicopters will not enter those areas. They don't need to. Typical news helicopter camera can read a license plate at 2,000 ft. [link]. For something as big as a wildfire, they can get quite a good close up from five to ten miles away.

 

[LuvMyTJ]

Please be sure to post in the correct area, this belongs in "News".
Also, this is a duplicate post, do a quick search before posting news items to be sure it's not already here. Please comment further here - http://www.phantompilots.com/threads/bad-press-for-drones-wild-fires.48315/