Illegal Drone Uses
The FAA says predicts that 700,000 new drones will be used after the holidays. The CEO of Drone University says that it is one million drones. Either way drone users are getting more careless. They have started flying too close to police helicopters. On Saturday, a drone almost hit a CHP helicopter while it was searching for a stolen car. They tracked the drone back to its owner a quarter mile away. There was another close encounter with drones and helicopters but the drones owner wasn't found because the drone disappeared too quickly.
These close encounter show that people are being irresponsible with drones. They are flying there drones way above 400 feet and are flying there drone out of eyesight.
Earlier in the year, lawmakers passed a bill that wouldn't let drones fly over wildfires, schools, or prisons. This was vetoed by Governor Jerry Brown who thought that this would create too many new crimes.
