Exactly Eboy. They're just going through the motions. A dismissal with prejudice is a powerful signal. When you actually look at what they're claiming, when you read the detail of the FAA statements and the FARs, it's train wreck. Really quite dismayed; if they're screwing this up so badly, what else are they screwing up that's more immediately relevant to our industry?
Just have a read of the defence brief; it's fascinating. I have no idea what the FAA thought they were doing. It absolutely takes the FAA to pieces, and the judge agreed:
http://www.kramerlevin.com/files/upl...A-v-Pirker.pdf
Rick777, there has already been at least one such incident:
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Be it noted this was an 'amateur' flying a model plane, not a professional operating a commercial drone.