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Man shoots down drone hovering over house

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/s/man-shoots-down-drone-hovering-000032027.html

This article, Man shoots down drone hovering over house, originally appeared on CNET.com.

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.



We need to talk anti-aircraft weaponry.

More and more so-called enthusiasts are sending drones into the sky. This means that more and more normal humans are becoming enthusiastic about shooting them out of the sky.

Especially, as in the case of William H. Merideth, the drone is hovering over your house.

Merideth, 47, lives in Hillview, Kentucky. As WDRB-TV reports, a neighbor heard gunshots and called the police. Merideth allegedly told the police that a drone was hovering over his house, where his teen daughter (he has two) was sunbathing. So he pulled out his gun and gave it a merry death.

The drone's owner, police say, said he was flying it to take pictures of a neighboring house.

However, Merideth told WRDB: "Well, I came out and it was down by the neighbor's house, about 10 feet off the ground, looking under their canopy that they've got under their back yard. I went and got my shotgun and I said, 'I'm not going to do anything unless it's directly over my property.'"

And then it allegedly was.


Merideth explained: "I didn't shoot across the road, I didn't shoot across my neighbor's fences, I shot directly into the air."

He says that shortly after the shooting, he received a visit from four men who claimed to be responsible for the drone and explaining that it cost $1,800.

Merideth says he stood his ground: "I had my 40 mm Glock on me and they started toward me and I told them, 'If you cross my sidewalk, there's gonna be another shooting.'"

There appears not to have been another shooting. However, Merideth was arrested for wanton endangerment and criminal mischief. There is, apparently, a local ordinance that says you can't shoot a gun off in the city, but the police charged him under a Kentucky Revised Statute.

I have contacted both the Hillview Police Department and the FAA to ask for their view on proceedings. I will update, should I hear.

The FAA's recommendations include not flying above 400 feet and "Don't fly near people or stadiums." The FAA adds: "You could be fined for endangering people or other aircraft."

For his part, Merideth says he will sue the drone's owners. He told WRDB: "You know, when you're in your own property, within a six-foot privacy fence, you have the expectation of privacy. We don't know if he was looking at the girls. We don't know if he was looking for something to steal. To me, it was the same as trespassing."

It is, indeed, hard to know whether things that buzz in the sky have positive or negative intentions. Amateur drones disrupted efforts to fight recent California wildfires to such a degree that there's now a $75,000 reward for anyone who identifies those responsible. A Southern California lawmaker has created a bill that would make it legal for the authorities to shoot these drones out of the sky.

On the other hand, medical researchers are wondering if drones could be very useful in being able to quickly transport vital medical supplies.

It's not hard to have some sympathy with Merideth, if not with his draconian methods of sanction.

This case echoes one from last year when a New Jersey man allegedly took a hovering drone out with a bullet.

But this sort of incident will only get more complicated as companies such as Amazon begin to fly drones that deliver underwear and nail clippers.

Drones aren't supposed to fly over buildings. Surely Amazon's flying machines won't be able to avoid such an event.

Please imagine your neighborhood airspace suddenly full of undergarments, toys, books and other coveted items floating through the air after the drone carrying them was shot down.

Every day will feel like Christmas.
 

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Drones of terror? Homeland Security warns UAVs could be used ‘for attacks’

http://www.rt.com/usa/311358-drones-terrorism-security-USA/

Los tarados apenas estan reconociendolo...

Police agencies across the United States have been warned by the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) about the possibility of attacks being carried out with unmanned aerial vehicles or aircraft systems (UAV/UAS).
READ MORE: ISIS could use drones to bomb sporting events, music festivals – intelligence sources

“The rising trend in UAS incidents within the National Airspace System will continue, as UAS gain wider appeal with recreational users and commercial applications,” says a DHS intelligence assessment that went out Friday and was seen by CBS news.

‘Gambling with lives’: Private contractors pick US drone targets - report http://t.co/9upAmp7Dwmpic.twitter.com/gHr2qBoK2Y

— RT America (@RT_America) July 30, 2015
“Adversaries could use UAS to advance terrorist and criminal activities… Unmanned Aircraft Systems present detection and disruption challenges,” it adds.

Along with terrorist organizations and domestic terrorists, drones could be used by violent extremists, lone operatives, and drug trafficking organizations, according to the DHS bulletin.

READ MORE: Gunslinger drone, your moderately-priced hired assassin

It also emphasizes that “potential security vulnerabilities,” which could be exploited by using UAS, are underestimated. Experts believe that drones are capable of carrying chemical weapons and guns.

The paper does not, however, warn of specific threats, but rather highlights the challenges posed by drones.

READ MORE: California county offers $25k for data on drone operators who interfered with firefighters

Intelligence bulletins have been prepared almost every week in the wake of rising threats from Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) sympathizers. However, drones have not been their usual topic.

Drone use in the US has risen to such an extent that UAVs have become intrusive – as in California where they were said to be hampering firefighting efforts. As a result, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-California) has asked the Federal Aviation Administration to consider creating rules to block drones from flying in areas where firefighters are carrying out operations, especially those involving wildfires.
 

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Dos jóvenes se declaran culpables de llevar droga en drones de México a EU

http://www.sinembargo.mx/12-08-2015/1448081

San Diego (EU), 12 ago (EFE).- Dos jóvenes se declararon hoy culpables de traficar 12.7 kilogramos de heroína de México hacia Estados Unidos utilizando aviones no tripulados, informó hoy la Fiscalía del Distrito Sur de California (EU).

De acuerdo al Departamento de Seguridad Nacional (DHS, en inglés), se trata del primer decomiso de una agencia estadounidense que involucra el uso de drones por parte de traficantes mexicanos de droga.

La fiscal federal de distrito, Laura Duffy, señaló que ante el refuerzo de la seguridad en la frontera, organizaciones criminales se han visto obligadas a buscar otros medios para ingresar narcóticos.

“Hemos encontrado sus túneles, sus Cessnas (avionetas), sus jet skis, sus pangas y ahora, hemos encontrado sus drones”, indicó la procuradora tras la audiencia ante un juez de la Corte Federal de San Diego (California).

Los acusados, identificados como Jonathan Elías y Brayan Valle, de 18 y 19 años, respectivamente, aceptaron cargos por posesión de 12,7 kilogramos de heroína con fines de distribución.

El pasado 28 de abril, Elías transportó a su cómplice a un campo agrícola cercano a la frontera en Caléxico (California) para recoger paquetes de droga que ingresaron al país a través de drones, detalla la demanda federal.

“El uso de drones para introducir drogas a lo largo de la frontera México y Estados Unidos es una amenaza emergente”, refirió Ronnie Martínez, agente especial del DHS en California.

El funcionario enfatizó que se trabaja de manera conjunta con otras agencias de seguridad para “identificar y desmantelar” operaciones criminales que utilizan aviones no tripulados para poner fin a sus “experimentos ilícitos”.

“Un grupo de investigadores de distintas agencias policiacas están asignados para investigar todas las actividades de contrabando aéreas a lo largo de la frontera y decomisar cualquier ingreso de droga vinculado a sus intentos fallidos”, indicó.

La primera vez que se habló del uso de esta tecnología para traficar droga en esta frontera fue en enero de este año, cuando policías en Tijuana encontraron un avión no tripulado destruido con más de 2,7 kilogramos de metanfetaminas en un estacionamiento cercano a la garita de San Ysidro.

Autoridades mexicanas señalaron en aquella ocasión, que el aparato no resistió el peso de la carga, por lo que desplomó en el trayecto. EFE
 

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Drone encounters surge

http://www.aopa.org/News-and-Video/...3/Drone-encounters-surge?CMP=SM.FB.14Aug15.BP

Pilot reports of unmanned aircraft encounters, including some at altitudes as high as 10,000 feet, are rapidly increasing, the FAA announced Aug. 12, calling on drone operators to cut it out and follow the rules.

Some of those encounters are putting lives and property at risk, on the ground as well as in the air: There have been 13 reported encounters between firefighting aircraft and drones among more than 650 such encounters this year to date, nearly three times the 238 sightings logged in all of 2014. Drone enthusiasts hovering their machines over California wildfires have forced firefighters to ground or delay critical missions. The 275 unmanned aircraft sighting reports from flight crews in June and July alone represent a fivefold increase in encounters compared to the same months in 2014.

“The FAA wants to send out a clear message that operating drones around airplanes and helicopters is dangerous and illegal,” the agency stated in the Aug. 12 announcement. “Unauthorized operators may be subject to stiff fines and criminal charges, including possible jail time.”

The aviation agency encourages the public to report unauthorized drone operations to local law enforcement, and has “dozens” of pending enforcement cases. The FAA has also issued more than 1,000 exemptions to commercial drone operators to date, though that represents a fraction of the number of drones that have been sold to consumers.

AOPA has joined the FAA and unmanned aircraft organizations supporting the “Know Before You Fly” education campaign designed to promote safe and responsible operation of unmanned aircraft. The Air Safety Institute has developed a free online course, Unmanned Aircraft and the National Airspace System, to help pilots learn about various kinds of unmanned aircraft and how to operate safely in an airspace system that is growing ever more crowded. AOPA has for years advocated for safety above all, urging government and industry to develop and deploy technology that will allow unmanned aircraft to “see and avoid” other aircraft.
 

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Drone-Killing Laser Cannon

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http://www.wired.com/2015/08/welcome-world-drone-killing-laser-cannon/

HANG ON TO your drone. Boeing’s developed a laser cannon specifically designed to turn unmanned aircraft into flaming wreckage.

The aerospace company’s new weapon system, which it publicly tested this week in a New Mexico industrial park, isn’t quite as cool as what you see in Star Wars—there’s no flying beams of light, no “pew! pew!” sound effects. But it is nonetheless a working laser cannon, and it will take your drone down.

People keep flying their drones where they shouldn’t. In airport flight paths. Above wildfires. Onto the White House lawn. Luckily, there haven’t been any really bad incidents—that is, no one has been killed by a civilian quadcopter or plane, yet...

But governments and militaries around the world are terrified by the prospect of drones carrying explosives or chemical weapons (and now, pornography) into places where they shouldn’t.

There are lots of theories on the best way to deal with the drone threat. An Idaho company has developed special anti-drone shotgun shells. Some agencies are working on jamming technology to block communication from the operator to the aircraft. Firefighters in New York kept it simple, aiming their hose at a pesky drone hovering near a house fire.

Forget all that. Boeing thinks the best way to kill a drone is to zap it with a precision laser, burn a hole in it, and bring it down. So it created a weapon system to do just that—and the result could someday be installed everywhere from LaGuardia to the Pentagon.

Wednesday morning, the company showed off its Compact Laser Weapon System for media in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It’s a much smaller, significantly more portable version of the High Energy Laser Mobile Demonstrator (HEL MD) Boeing demonstrated last year. This setup looks like an overgrown camera, swiveling around on a tripod.

In the demo, Boeing used the laser to burn holes in a stationary, composite UAV shell, to show how quickly it can compromise an aircraft. Two seconds at full power and the target was aflame. Other than numerous safety warnings to ensure no one was blinded by the two-kilowatt infrared laser, there was no fanfare. No explosions, no visible beam. It’s more like burning ants with a really, really expensive magnifying glass than obliterating Alderaan.

Instead of a massive laser mounted on a dedicated truck, the compact system is small enough to fit in four suitcase-sized boxes and can be set up by a pair of soldiers or technicians in just a few minutes. At the moment, it’s aimed primarily at driving drones away from sensitive areas.

The new system is more scalpel than sledgehammer. Its laser, and, especially, the off-the-shelf gimbal (a fancy motor that can aim the laser and camera in any direction) it’s mounted on, make it precise enough to target different parts of a UAV. Want to zap the tail so it crashes and then you can go retrieve the mostly intact drone and see who is trying to spy on you? Can do. Think it’s carrying explosives and you want to completely destroy it? No problem. Boeing wouldn’t get specific on its range, but company reps suggested that if you can see a target, even with binoculars, you can kill it.

Depending on the target’s speed and distance, Boeing’s weapon can fire its laser within an inch or two of what it wants to hit. Because the laser moves at the speed of light, it’s easier to be precise—there’s no need to lead the target. The speed of the gimbal is the primary limitation on the targeting front.

The laser is controlled with a standard Xbox 360 controller (“If it breaks, just head to the barracks to get a replacement!”) and a laptop with custom targeting software. Once in range, the system can take over from the human operator and control targeting and tracking automatically. Though current prototypes are meant to be used from static positions, the new weapon could be used on a moving vehicle or ship with minimal upgrades.

“This represents a low-cost way to deal with the threat,” said David DeYoung, director of Boeing Laser & Electro-Optical Systems. Boeing wouldn’t reveal a total price of the system, but says it’s a one-time purchase. Once you’ve got the system, the only cost is electricity. The company expects the system to run for “years” with basic maintenance (the gimbal is the only moving part) and near-zero ongoing costs since there’s no traditional ammunition.

The necessary electricity can come from standard 220 volt outlet, a generator on a military vehicle, or a battery pack for ultimate portability. Boeing has several battery solutions depending on situational need, but all should give enough juice for at least a few shots.

The company hopes to have the Star Wars-inspired weapon ready for market in a year or two, with many refinements and developments to come over the next few years. But don’t expect lasers to replace traditional armaments like Raytheon’s Patriot missile defense system and Israel’s Iron Dome. “There will be times where it makes sense to use a missile and there will be times where it makes sense to use a laser,” says DeYoung.

As with any military weapon, Boeing would need to work through export control regulations before selling to foreign governments. It’s also not clear whether civilian agencies running prisons and airports could deploy the system under current regulations, or even what regulations might apply to something like this.

Perhaps the biggest disappointment is that the laser doesn’t make a “pew pew” noise. A Boeing rep did say the company’s planning to add a number of sound effects to the control station, to help multi-tasking operators keep an eye on what’s going on when it’s in an automated tracking mode. Hopefully they’ll hire Industrial Light and Magic to appease disappointed laser-lovers.
 

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FAA Investigating Reported UAV Collision with Piper Twin

http://www.flyingmag.com/technique/...1&spJobID=640106890&spReportId=NjQwMTA2ODkwS0

So far it's unconfirmed, but the FAA is taking seriously a report that a Piper twin was involved in a midair collision with a UAV over northern Illinois on August 27.

Maybe we should be calling it a UFO, since the FAA's incident report refers to a collision between the Piper Apache and an "unidentified object" over Romeoville, Illinois, under Chicago's Class B airspace about 20 nm southwest of O'Hare International.

Photos of the damaged airplane posted online by sUASNews.com show a dented wing leading edge and a six inch slice in the de-ice boot that looks like it was caused by something manmade and not of avian origin.

No injuries were reported by the single pilot aboard the airplane, but the damage no doubt will be expensive to repair. The Piper is owned by an Illinois aerial imaging company, according to FAA records.

If it was somebody's UAV, it would be the second such reported incident in the United States since the FAA started reporting a sharp rise in drone encounters by pilots this year. In April, the pilot of a small airplane flying near Livermore Airport in Califonia reported a possible UAV collision with damage to the lower portion of his nose cowl.
 

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Public concerns about invasions of privacy could result in complicated legal limits

http://www.aviationtoday.com/rw/topstories/The-Wild-Card-For-Small-UAS_85881.html#.Vft8N3gV6Rk

The Wild Card For Small UAS
Public concerns about invasions of privacy could result in complicated legal limits on use of smaller drones.

By Mark Colborn
A camera mounted on a DJI Phantom (superimposed here) took this nighttime photo from a height of 150 ft.


Such small UAS capabilities concern privacy advocates.
Photos by Mark Colborn When a vacationing 39-year-old California man flew a Parrot Bebop
Drone 100 ft above Washington’s Lafayette Park May 14, the U.S. capital took notice.

The park, a popular spot for protesters, is directly across Pennsylvania Avenue from the front door of the White House. The District of Columbia has been blanketed with a no-fly zone for most aircraft since September 2001, and on May 13 the FAA kicked off a publicity campaign urging tourists headed for D.C. to “leave your drone at home.” None of that deterred the errant operator of that small unmanned aircraft system (UAS). Federal officers quickly detained the hobbyist. He was arrested and given a June court date.
UAS incidents that might be seen as threats to national security are not taken lightly by law enforcement or, especially, lawmakers, who often call for more rules and restrictions in response. This understandably concerns professional pilots and helicopter operators, many of whom already question how UAS will affect their careers and the entire helicopter industry and wonder whether a drone will come through their windshield tomorrow.
But another UAS issue is starting to grab the attention of the public, politicians and legislators: privacy.

This has not been a driving issue for helicopters. People may complain about the noise from takeoffs, flights, descents and landings, but unless helicopters hover long, people are not likely to complain seriously about invasions of privacy. But UAS, particularly small ones, are quieter and legally can fly at much lower altitudes. If a UAS operator doesn’t consider personal privacy, you can bet that legislators will.

With drones seemingly tracking our every move, an Orwellian police state may be upon us. This, at least, is what privacy advocates want us and our legislators to believe. They have managed to convince legislators in 13 states to enact laws regulating police use of drones.

Eleven of those states require a warrant before the government may use a drone. (California nearly became the 12th in November, but Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed the bill.).
Several states and municipalities also have drafted restrictions or prohibitions on private drone operators conducting surveillance of people or private property. These laws pose problems.

According to one expert on drones, security, technology and crime, Gregory McNeal, new laws tend to focus on limiting drone technology, not the potential harm that can be accomplished with them. A professor at Pepperdine University’s School of Law, McNeal has testified before Congress and has written about drone-related issues. In a 2014 paper for Washington think tank The Brookings Institution, he writes that, in many cases, the approach of legislators “creates perverse results, allowing the use of extremely sophisticated, pervasive surveillance technologies from manned aircraft, while disallowing benign uses of drones for mundane tasks like accident and crime-scene documentation.”
In that paper, “Drones and Aerial Surveillance: Considerations for Legislators,” McNeal makes five recommendations for drafting drone laws. At the top of the list is a “property-rights approach” to aerial surveillance. This would provide “landowners with the right to exclude aircraft, persons and other objects” in an airspace column from the surface of their land up to 350 ft agl. (McNeal is currently drafting a new proposal with a much-lower ceiling recommendation of 200 ft agl.) Such an approach, he claims, may solve most public and private concerns associated with drones. (On June 2, Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval signed a law making a drone operator liable for trespass if the UAS is flown lower than 250 ft over private property.)

However, there are a number of problems in adopting such an arbitrary figure as a ceiling on private property. For one, the approach does not consider the reasonable expectation that a person’s activities will remain private. It also does not consider that the person’s use of the property could be curtailed or whether the duration of any nuisance created is acceptable.

You can imagine how difficult an arbitrary ceiling would be to enforce when a property owner would have to figure by eye the altitude at which a drone is operating.
An arbitrary-altitude approach also doesn’t take into consideration a person’s or business’ liability risk. If the land in question is leased, for instance, the lease agreement may impose an obligation to keep activities on the land safe. That could be difficult if the lessor cannot prohibit unauthorized UAS from overflying those activities. This is a concern of the 330 members of the National Ski Areas Assn. in the U.S., many of whom lease government land.

The group said it fully supports the FAA’s proposed rule allowing commercial small-UAS use at ski areas, but it wants small hobby UAS banned from them.
The U.S. Supreme Court set a precedent in a 1946 ruling (in U.S. vs. Causby) that a landowner “owns at least as much of the space above the ground as he can occupy or use in connection with the land.” The ruling said the ceiling of that space was the floor of what the U.S. government had set as navigable airspace’s minimum safe altitude, or 500 to 1,000 ft agl.

In a 1989 ruling ( Florida v. Riley), the Supreme Court determined a police helicopter crew flying at 400 ft agl did not need a warrant when they observed marijuana plants poking out of the defendant’s greenhouse. The helicopter did not create a nuisance, the Court said, and the surveillance’s short duration did not detract from the property’s use and enjoyment. Since 500 ft is the lower limit of navigable U.S. airspace for fixed-wing aircraft, the Court found that the helicopter’s operation at 400 ft was safe and reasonable. Trial courts since have found manned observation flights as low as 400 ft rare and unsafe, except near an airport. Police still will need a warrant to fly a small UAS at that altitude for surveillance of both private and public spaces.

But the U.S. government still is navigating the tricky privacy issues raised by the UAS. President Obama in February directed the National Telecommunications and Information Administration to develop and communicate best practices for privacy, transparency and accountability in commercial and private UAS use. When the agency sought public comment on that task, more than 50 individuals and organizations replied. Several news groups said longstanding state privacy laws provide sufficient protections by prohibiting trespass and intrusive photography and videography. They argued that new guidelines would conflict with those laws and that restrictions on media use of drones could violate the First Amendment. But UAS will allow news outlets to capture spectacular video and images from vantage points never before possible.

The hand controller for the Phantom 3 uses direct USB connection to Android or iOS devices to display real-time camera video overlaid with flight telemetry.
The hand controller for the Phantom 3 uses direct USB connection to Android or iOS devices to display real-time camera video overlaid with flight telemetry.

Photo by Mark Colborn When I was moonlighting for a local TV news station, I gained a unique perspective on the news media business. Some photojournalists say liability risks are the main obstacles to using small UAS in newsgathering. No TV station would allow an employee to send up a drone without first fully assessing the risk to the public, they argue, thus ensuring a journalistic UAS code of conduct is followed (and the flights are cleared by insurance carriers).

Perhaps a solution would be to allow the insurance industry to police this new commercial UAS market by setting clear operational guidelines. On May 27, insurance underwriter Transport Risk Management said it delivered its first-ever all-inclusive UAS packages to clients, with full hull and liability coverage for the operator.

The U.S. is not the only country struggling with UAS privacy issues. In December, a select committee in the U.K. House of Lords heard testimony from an under secretary of state for transport that someone taking photos or videos with a UAS should be treated the same as “somebody going up a stepladder with a camera” or using closed-circuit TV.

Currently, inexpensive small UAS do not have the endurance for the kind of persistent, long-term surveillance that worries most privacy advocates around the world. However, as designs advance, as sensor packages are further miniaturized, and as battery technology improves, this could change. If government agencies or a private small UAS operator could conduct persistent surveillance on an individual, even in a public place, perhaps it would violate that person’s reasonable expectations of privacy.

The Supreme Court likely would agree. In the 2012 U.S. v. Jones ruling, it concluded that police using a secretly planted GPS transmitter to track a suspected narcotics dealer’s car over four weeks was unconstitutional, even though the car was publicly visible the entire time. The Court said it would have ruled otherwise if police had used more expensive or conventional methods (such as constantly following a suspect) instead of the simple device.
Need To Know: Thirteen U.S. states have some regulation of public and private UAS use.Establishing altitude restrictions on drones over private property can pose legal challenges.

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U.S. Seeks Drone Privacy Benchmarks

The U.S. National Telecommunications and Information Administration held its first “stakeholder” meeting Aug. 3 to begin fulfilling a presidential order to develop small UAS privacy and transparency standards.
The purpose of the Washington meeting was to discuss and understand relevant issues within the UAS industry.
In it, that agency identified UAS benefits, including those for newsgathering and parcel delivery. But the agency also cited the importance in consumer trust and responsibility when operating the aircraft.

Some stakeholders suggested the agency’s work process should address data security requirements, reporting obligations and privacy issues such as de-identification.
Attendees included representatives from the FAA, the Small UAV Coalition, the National Association of Broadcasters and the Center for Democracy and Leadership.
The next meeting is scheduled for Sept. 24 at the American Institute of Architects in Washington.
 

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Man charged with obstructing officer after drone spotted near police copter

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-los-angeles-drone-charges-20150922-story.html

The Los Angeles city attorney’s office charged a man Tuesday with obstructing a peace officer for allegedly flying a drone too close to a police helicopter.

Martin Sheldon, 57, was charged with two counts of obstructing a peace officer in performance of his duties and -faces up to $1,000 in fines and a year in jail-, officials said.

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“Video footage from the device allegedly showed the drone fly towards the police helicopter, as well as its spotlight, and numerous police units below” on Aug. 27, the city attorney's office said in a statement.

A police helicopter was helping officers on the ground in East Hollywood look for a person around Western Avenue and Sunset Boulevard, where police had set up a perimeter, when the drone flew nearby, said LAPD Officer Nuria Vanegas.

The helicopter “had to make some movements to avoid” the drone, she said. Officers found Sheldon in a nearby parking lot and took him and his drone into custody.

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“Using a drone to interfere with a police investigation places our officers and the public at serious risk,” City Atty. Mike Feuer said in a statement. “My office will hold those who recklessly operate these devices accountable for their actions.”

As civilian drone use has become more prevalent – especially over crowded public places and areas inaccessible by foot like wildfire zones and inside police perimeters – state and local lawmakers have sought ways to regulate their use.

Private drones are putting firefighters in 'immediate danger,' California fire official says
Private drones are putting firefighters in 'immediate danger,' California fire official says
Earlier this month, Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed a bill that would have prohibited drone flights up to 350 feet above private property without the property owner’s consent. In vetoing the bill, Brown said the bill was well-intentioned but “could expose the occasional hobbyist and the FAA-approved commercial user alike to burdensome litigation and new causes of action.”

Drone flights over wildfire areas are already prohibited due to temporary flight restrictions issued by state and federal fire agencies, but recent incidents have reignited the effort to enforce them.
 

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Possible drone collides with helicopter in Los Angeles

http://www.verticalmag.com/news/article/PossibledronecollideswithhelicopterinLosAngeles

NEWS // 2015/11/25
by Jen Boyer

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An L.A. Helicopters R22 sustained severe windscreen damage after colliding with an unidentified object, possibly a drone, on Nov. 23. L.A. Helicopters Photo

A Robinson R22 helicopter was struck Monday night by an object while flying south through Sepulveda Pass in Los Angeles. Operated as a cross-country training flight by L.A. Helicopters of Long Beach, Calif., the aircraft sustained severe damage to the windscreen when it was struck at 2,000 feet above sea level (800 feet above ground level) at about 7:15 p.m. The aircraft immediately diverted to Van Nuys Airport for an emergency landing. The flight instructor, who occupied the left seat, sustained cuts on his hands and knees from the shattered Plexiglas. The pilots were otherwise unharmed.

"Neither of the pilots saw the object — it had no lights," said Guillaume Maillet, chief pilot of L.A. Helicopters. "We think it was a drone. After talking to them, from what I see from the extensive damage, and the fact that there are no feathers or blood to indicate a bird strike, it had to be a drone."

Maillet said he'd experienced a bird strike in a Robinson helicopter at 110 knots and there had been no damage to the windscreen. "Our R22 Monday was only flying about 70 knots and the extensive damage with no evidence of a bird strike tells me it's a drone," he said.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is currently looking into the incident and has not officially determined the identity of the object that struck the aircraft.

If the object was a drone, this incident is the latest in an ever-increasing number of drone and potential drone encounters in Southern California, according to the FAA. The FAA is working on finalizing rules for drone operations in the U.S. A task force on drone registration provided recommendations to the agency just last weekend, which outlined a system to require all drone operators to register their aircraft in an effort to increase accountability and compliance.
 

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El escuadrón de drones para perseguir drones que patrullará las calles de Tokio


La policía de Tokio lanzará un escuadrón de aviones no tripulados, también conocidos como drones, diseñados para ubicar y -si es necesario- capturar otros drones que han sido lanzados por el público y que las autoridades consideran que son molestos.


http://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias/2015/12/151211_drones_japon_policia_anti_drones_mr

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Plantea EU hacer seguimiento de drones

Reuters

Washington DC, Estados Unidos (26 diciembre 2019).- El principal regulador de aviación de Estados Unidos propuso este jueves una norma que permitiría el seguimiento remoto de la mayoría de los drones en el espacio aéreo local.

La Administración Federal de Aviación, o FAA, dijo que la regla propuesta exigirá que todos los drones que operan en Estados Unidos cumplan con los requisitos dentro de tres años.

El Congreso estadounidense ordenó a la FAA en 2016 que estableciera regulaciones o una orientación para julio de 2018 que permitiera que el público, la FAA, las fuerzas de orden y otros rastreen e identifiquen de manera remota los drones y sus operadores durante el vuelo.

Compañías ya están creando flotas de drones como un complemento para las minoristas en línea.

United Parcel Service Inc dijo en octubre que obtuvo la primera aprobación completa del gobierno para operar una aerolínea de drones, lo que le da una ventaja sobre sus rivales Amazon.com y Alphabet en el negocio naciente de entregas con drones.

fuente y link: https://www.elnorte.com/plantea-eu-hacer-seguimiento-de-drones/ar1841984
 
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