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FAA bans news helicopters over Ferguson, but what about citizen drones?

14
Aug
2014

Aircraft are being restricted from flying just above Ferguson, Missouri for the next week, as the FAA halts air traffic above the town so that law enforcement can deal with backlash over the polices fatal shooting of an unarmed teenager. Craft are banned from flying anywhere between the ground and 3,000 feet above sea level, across a nearly six-mile-wide circle around the town. Reuters reports that bans like this are usually requested by law enforcement so that their own helicopters can avoid encounters with news helicopters. Throughout the ban over Ferguson, only relief aircraft will be allowed in. Given the importance of documenting the events in Ferguson right now, the aircraft ban poses some issue for the local news.

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