AOPA Pilot Magazine - November 2017 - 54
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IN THE AFTERMATH of two major hurricanes, drones were deployed in
unprecedented numbers to search for
victims, assess critical infrastructure,
and support live television coverage. Not
long after Hurricane Irma devastated the
Florida Keys and moved north, bringing
torrential rain, damaging winds, and flooding communities across the panhandle and
neighboring states, drones took to the skies
to deliver the first aerial images. In at least
one case, the drone pilots did not exactly
wait until the storm had passed.
"We actually flew in the eye," said Ben
Kroll of SkyFire Consulting, a drone services company hired by The Weather
Channel to accompany broadcaster Jim
Cantore for live coverage of Hurricane
Irma's U.S. landfall on September 10.
"It got calm really fast," said Kroll, a
drone pilot and certificated flight instructor who partnered with Matt Sloane to
launch the company hired by CBS for filming in Texas after Hurricane Harvey. Until
the eye of the storm passed and the wind
returned, "it was just like flying on a normal, calm day," he said.
Like Harvey before it, Irma drew a
mix of drone amateurs and professionals,
despite FAA-imposed flight restrictions
designed to keep the skies clear for authorized emergency responders. But the worst
fears of experts who worried that amateurs operating illegally would interfere
with rescue and recovery efforts were not
realized. Instead, the two storms may have
marked a turning point.
FAA Administrator Michael Huerta,
in remarks delivered at the InterDrone
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