Hi Silbay, thanks for your comment. You are right to say that in many ways. I too would say the same thing. I had to think long and hard whether to post this or not at the risk of embarrassing myself. The fact is, its done and I am repentant. I will not be doing this again, now that I know that our Civil Aviation Safety Authority has chased up some other UAV operators for doing an ABC TV report near the opera house. I only met them the day after and then they advised me of the $85K fine.
If anything, I hope it will bring awareness to my fellow flyers in the hobby/ industry whilst CASA are still in their infancy regarding the operations of UAV's. I'll be seeking my level one operators certificate so that I can be better advised and find those "hard to find" rules that aren't quite published yet. I hear CASA will reach a decision in 2018. (BTW, i have a commercial helicopter licence and in theory, I could have done the same thing in a full size chopper and charged for it)
Hi Silbay, thanks for your comment. You are right to say that in many ways. I too would say the same thing. I had to think long and hard whether to post this or not at the risk of embarrassing myself. The fact is, its done and I am repentant. I will not be doing this again, now that I know that our Civil Aviation Safety Authority has chased up some other UAV operators for doing an ABC TV report near the opera house. I only met them the day after and then they advised me of the $85K fine.
Did casa get onto that other low flying aircraft at 2.00 ?
If anything, I hope it will bring awareness to my fellow flyers in the hobby/ industry whilst CASA are still in their infancy regarding the operations of UAV's. I'll be seeking my level one operators certificate so that I can be better advised and find those "hard to find" rules that aren't quite published yet. I hear CASA will reach a decision in 2018. (BTW, i have a commercial helicopter licence and in theory, I could have done the same thing in a full size chopper and charged for it)
Is there anywhere you haven't been?
:) Outback!
So you just had to post evidence of your law breaking on the internet? Not real smart my friend not real smart.