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How Low Is The Sky? And More Questions A Drone Legal Case Might Resolve

• popsci.com
 

Austrian Raphael "Trappy" Pirker has been flying drones and taking aerial photos as a hobby for about five years. But now he may have to pay $10,000 for an incident in October 2011, according to a complaint filed by the Federal Aviation Administration, alleging reckless flight over the University of Virginia campus in Charlottesville, Va., and taking paid compensation for aerial photography without being licensed.

Pirker's lawyers have already counter-filed a motion to dismiss the complaint. Bigger than this case are the legal gray areas it will clarify.


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