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Re:FAA Moves Toward Treating Drones and Planes as Equals by bsder on Monday October 08, 2018 @04:26PM (#18170981)
Are you next to a lake? Are there fire control airplanes reloading? (Yeah, this happened).

Are you next to high tension power lines? Is there a helicopter coming in to do maintenance?

The point is that you don't know, and neither does anybody else unless people are filing and reading flight plans.

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Re:FAA Moves Toward Treating Drones and Planes as Equals by FireBeyond on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @04:08AM (#18174123)
Not sure why you're downvoted. Like said elsewhere, jerks ruin everything.

Regularly, multiple times a week across the West US in fire season, are air ops (sometimes large ones) shutdown because people think it's more important for them to get their next YouTube video with their drone than it is for helicopters and even jets to do water and retardant dumps.

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