Luohu Police Issued the First Ticket for Flying A Drone When the Altitude Exceeded the Limit

Can civilian drones be used at will? Many drone enthusiasts choose to take off at iconic sites, but they do not realize that this kind of "casual flying" has violated relevant laws. The luohu branch of the shenzhen municipal public security bureau recently found a case violating the rules on the use of civil drones near the shenzhen grand theater, and issued the bureau's first administrative ticket for the flight of drones.

At about 5 PM on May 4, two drone enthusiasts were operating a drone in the vicinity of the grand theater when they were caught by police from the Guiyuan police station. According to the police investigation, the two arrested men, surnamed Jiang and surnamed Chen, respectively controlled a DJI drone and flew at an altitude of 320 meters and 500 meters above the grand theater, exceeding the upper limit set by the administration.

They were said to be drone enthusiasts who filmed in the piazza around the grand theater without the approval of the aviation authority or the required drone pilot license. They thought they could fly the drone if they bought it and did not think they had touched the bottom of the law.

The police told them about the relevant laws and regulations on drone flight, and according to the interim measures of Shenzhen municipality for the administration of civil micro-light drone and related laws, they were given an administrative penalty of 1,000 yuan. The two fans said they obeyed the punishment from the public security authorities and regretted flying in key areas without knowing the relevant laws of the country.

Here, Luohu police remind the general public especially unmanned aircraft enthusiasts: the use of drone, we must give full consideration to the national security, social and public interests, to distinguish between different types of drone flight characteristics of science, before using drone to shoot to get approval from the relevant departments, make relevant certification qualifications, at the same time, strictly abide by the "Shenzhen civil micro light drones management interim measures" of all kinds of flight area and the height of the request, don't capricious "flight", so that the national laws and regulations.