RE: ICYMI: FBI looking into LA fiber cuts, Super Bowl

["Naslund, Steve" <SNaslund () medline com>]

Helicopters near the Super Bowl are cleared to be there and are flown by vetted professional pilots.  A human pilot in 
a helicopter presumably has some kind of qualification to be there while a drone (although I don't like that word) 
could be flown by any moron with a couple hundred bucks.  I also think the government is going completely overboard 
with the "drone threat" but in the case of the Super Bowl, there should definitely be a reasonable restriction on drone 
flights, ANY flight for that matter.  I think reasonable drone pilots would agree with that.

Steven Naslund
Chicago IL
 

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From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces () nanog org] On Behalf Of Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2016 9:46 AM
To: Rafael Possamai
Cc: nanog () nanog org
Subject: Re: ICYMI: FBI looking into LA fiber cuts, Super Bowl

On Tue, 19 Jan 2016 15:41:31 -0600, Rafael Possamai said:
> I fail to see how drones relate to fiber cuts and the superbowl. Did 
> the article author just throw that in there? The news helicopter 
> getting aerial footage also poses a risk, so not sure what's special about drones.

Drones don't cost $200 per hour to keep in the air, and they're not as obvious as a helicopter.  So it becomes a lot 
easier to get in there and grab some unauthorized video....