Do Baseball Pop Flies Need FAA Approval?

GPS · Mar 18, 2014

WASHINGTON (WJZ)—The FAA is crying foul at a Major League Baseball team. The Washington Nationals used a drone to take pictures of the team during spring training. Problem is they didn’t get permission. And commercial drone use is banned.

Meghan McCorkell has more on the controversy.

Nationals team photographers say they used a camera attached to a remote-controlled drone to get aerial images of the team but admit they did not consult the FAA.

Home runs are not the only thing flying over the field during Washington Nationals spring training.

The team used a small four-rotor drone to soar high above the players to capture promotional images of the team in practice.

“Everybody’s always looking for a new way, a new opportunity to get the different angle, right?” said Nationals manager Matt Williams.

But now the team is in hot water for not consulting the FAA before taking flight.

“We didn’t get it cleared, but we don’t get our pop flies cleared either and those go higher than this thing did,” a team official told the Associated Press.
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