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Here's an article i found about someone flying a "drone" near an airport. Notice the altitudes the FAA claimed the "drone" reached.
http://atlanta.cbslocal.com/2014/07/03/ ... t-airport/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I think it was just videoing the fireworks show from the air. The only reason I saw it was the lights. It had 4 lights. 2 green and 2 red. I thought it might have been a helicopter at first, but I couldn't hear it and it would go from hover to moving vet fast. Faster than any manned helicopter I've ever seen. And I checked the charts. It appears that we were just inside the inner ring of bravo.

Again, I'm not exactly sure of the altitude, I'm estimating 2000-2500 based in the height of the craft in relation to the height of the fireworks. It circled the entire show and when it was on the opposite side from me, it was still quite a bit higher than the highest fireworks.

I used to fly rc airplanes. I differentiate a RC aircraft from a drone based on how it's flown. IE in the RC environment, I had to maintain a constant line of sight with my aircraft and I flew it based on this. I'm almost certain that whoever was piloting this was doing so using a camera built into the craft. I consider that a drone.

I went to a CTI school to learn to be an air traffic controller and I'm also a private pilot. I know RC/drones aren't widely considered aircraft by federal standards, but I believe that hobbyist should not be allowed to operate in the inner ring of class Bravo or Charlie airspace. I've seen firsthand what a bird can do to an airplane. I really don't want to see what a "drone" would do.

My girlfriend and I decided to see the fireworks show at southlake town center. We parked on the roof of the east parking garage. They were shooting the fireworks off the other one. We had a great view of the show. About 10 minutes after it started I noticed a aircraft flying around with 2 green lights and 2 red lights. An aircraft uses red and green lights as position indicators. Green is always on the right side from the pilots perspective. This craft had green on the left and red on the right. Additionally, the green light was blinking. I think it was a quadcraft type based on the fact that it could hover and change direction rapidly. I know that the town center is in the inner ring of DFWs bravo airspace and I don't believe it's safe (or completely legal) to be flying any kind of aircraft there without permission from ATC. I went ahead and called southlakes non emergency police number and informed them that a drone was flying around and that I observed it landing at the gateway church across the highway. The dispatcher kinda blew me off saying that all the police working the event probably noticed it but that she would let them know. I'm not sure, but I estimated that the drone was flying at 2000-2500 feet. I know jets usually fly steeper approaches and are usually higher that far out, but it still concerned me that it was flying that high that close to a major airport. Thoughts? Should I have not alerted the police? I'm interested in your opinions. I'll post a picture of it in this thread sometime this weekend.