This would set a precedent that anyone who does anything that causes
inherent danger in flying could face jail time.  This would be regardless of
filing a NASA form.  Forget your chart or deviate from assigned altitude and
the city you fly over could prosecute you and send you to jail.  Better hope
he wins in appeal.  Craig Schulze

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From: n320g@hotmail.com [mailto:n320g@hotmail.com] Sent: Monday, June 21, 2010 5:21 AM
To: lml@lancaironline.net
Subject: Pilot convicted of recklessly operating aircraft for buzzing Santa
Monica Pier

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For all those pilots - this is on the L.A. Times yesterday morning. What
really punctuates this is he's facing jail time for violating a "rarely used
section of the state public utilities code.

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Pilot convicted of recklessly operating aircraft for buzzing Santa Monica
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Movie producer David G. Riggs was flying a Soviet-era military jet,
accompanied by another jet and a propeller plane pulling a banner for his
unfinished film, when he startled beachgoers in 2008.

By Dan Weikel, Los Angeles Times

June 18 2010

A pilot and movie producer who startled beachgoers by buzzing the Santa
Monica Pier in a Soviet-era military jet was convicted Thursday of
recklessly operating an aircraft. The complete article can be viewed at:
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-flyby-20100618,0,2075053.story Visit latimes.com at http://www.latimes.com