Who should I call about a drone in my airspace?

[jmodguy]

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[beeryboats]

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[PapuaPilot]

Contact your local FSDO, they should have a person who is responsible for UAV issues. If you have a private airstrip it may be difficult to be able to do anything legally. Most likely the person flying it was within line of sight. If you can figure out who owns it, go talk to them and let them know you don't want them over your property and airstrip.

The whole thing with drones it ratcheing up after a military helicopter flying at 500' hit a drone and made a landing in NJ. They had to change the rotor blades.

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[avidflyer]

Maybe a softer approach is to find the person, talk to him and work things out in a friendly manner. You said in your first post, "when you start flying" so it really isn't much of a problem at this point is it? Maybe you call the FAA on him now, maybe later "when you start flying" he calls the FAA on you for some real or imagined bending of the rules. Nobody wins then. JImChuk

[tx_swordguy]

As much as I would LOVE to shoot a drone out of the sky. I am betting you would be the one in trouble for damage to property. I think this has been done before and it didn't turn out pretty for the shooter. I am in NO WAY taking up for the drone and I am in the same boat as I fly out of my own grass strip. However outside of the fact that I am in the plane it would be no different than you flying your plane over someone's property and getting shot at. Remember the 500' rule for manned flight in rural areas. That applies horizontally with no vertical limit in sparsely populated areas. Who defines sparse is up to interpretation. Just be careful before unloading a gun. But if you do get it on video for the rest of us