This guy's fine started the moment he lifted off the self parking lot roof of Caesars Palace Hotel. He was two FULL sectors into the
Zero Altitude Flight Prohibited Zone around that airport and on the border of the 3rd sector. And only 1.19 miles from the first airstrip on the airport property edge closest to his launch. So the flight was illegal in every sense.
It appears he lost control around 2 mins, the last time he adjusted yaw in the frame. After that it was apparent the aircraft was in a static hover with no GPS guidance and was drifting on the SE breeze. He says it drifted four miles. That would put the drone going down at the farthest corner of the airport to make that mileage that was confirmed in the video. And his "flight" crossed directly through the N/S runway approach path from the North.
What I don't understand is when you violate a law the authorities have the legal right to seize and impound and retain any equipment, gear, guns, etc. used to commit the crime. So how did this guy get his drone back to retrieve the SD card to create the video a year ago? That is the one thing that doesn't really make sense here. We do know the incident of drift away did occur. So its puzzling to assume FAA gave the bird back. One other note, in the early part of the video there is part of the drone flopping into the frame. I didn't recognize what that was. Kinda looked gimbalish.??
Based on the No Fly Zone location this probably wasn't a DJI drone as geo-fencing would have prevented a launch unless it was a hacked bird.
I guess it wasn't this guy's day. Had the wind been blowing in the other direction it would have taken him into safer airspace away from the airport and may have been just a lost bird. The upper breeze had to be moving at least 10mph to drift that far in the time showing on the video.
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