SF News FAA Changes SFO Landing Rules After Air Canada Near-Miss Following a widely publicized near-disaster at SFO last month in which an Air Canada jet came within feet of crashing into four planes full of people on a taxiway, the FAA is making
SF News Man Crashes Drone Into Farmers' Market, Then Gets Mad About Being Photographed Only in SF? Here's an alternate headline: Man Surreptitiously Photographing People At Farmers' Market Suddenly Has Privacy Concerns About Being Photographed. You've got tech, farmers' markets, inconsiderate drone behavior, and privacy paranoia all
SF News Twitter Patents Crowdsourced Tweet-Controlled Drone, FAA (Presumably) Cries Like its fluttery mascot, Twitter dreams of flight. The social media titan was granted a patent last week for a tweet-controlled drone, with user actions on the platform (think retweets) somehow determining the
SF News FAA Would Like You To Narc On Irresponsible Drone Fliers Near SFO When someone almost crashed their drone into a California Highway Patrol helicopter last weekend, we hoped this prominent case of boneheadedness might serve as ample warning to other drone pilots to keep their
SF News Rash Of Laser Pointer Pranks Beleaguers Bay Area Aircraft Five years after the Federal Aviation Administration raised the alarm that Bay Area incidents of aircraft pilots "shot" by laser pointers were at an unprecedented rate, reports of area residents shining the lights
SF News Southwest Pilots Spot Five-Foot Drone While Landing At Oakland Airport Some pilots aboard a Southwest flight landing at Oakland International Airport Saturday evening reported seeing a "fairly good-sized drone" in restricted airspace, just off to the plane's right side, flying at about 2,
SF News Airlines To Consider Letting You Keep Your iPad On During Takeoff Do a few Kindles and iPods and iPads really pose a threat to airline safety? We have always wondered this. Especially while sitting on the ground at JFK waiting an hour to take
SF News Delayed Eastbound Flights From SFO, Oakland, Due to Previous FAA Computer Crash For anyone who might be reading this before heading to the airport, expect delayed flights today. Although the FAA's Atlanta-based computer system is back up after an earlier system crash, they expect a
