It appears just like the FAA is getting critical on unauthorized UAV flying. The division’s simply slapped SkyPan, a Chicago-based mostly aerial video firm, with a report $1.9-million greenback high-quality for violating flying laws in its house metropolis, and New York. The FAA states that SkyPan engaged in a complete of sixty five “unauthorized operations” between March and December 2012 — forty three of them in NYC’s extremely restriction airspace.

That is the most important superb to be issued by the FAA but, however it’s removed from the primary time the company has made it clear that inappropriate use will end in sever penalties — together with jail time. FAA laws are nonetheless being tailored to deal with the burgeoning variety of pastime plane taking to the skies — with two new executives assigned to the duty simply final month. SkyPan, nevertheless, is not new to aerial images, explaining in a press release to TechCrunch, that it has 27 years of compliant flying expertise, however does not reference the 2012 allegations particularly. The agency focuses on metropolis landscapes.

The FAA has given SkyPan 30 days to answer the claims..