At 600 feet above Downtown Dallas along I-30, there is one of the busiest airspaces in North Texas.

Marc Tomerlin, Assistant Chief Pilot with the Texas Department of Public Safety Aircraft Operations Division, said that between looking for antennas, towers and other manned aircraft, there is little time left to look out for drones.

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"This is the exact situation where we would appreciate some type of alert inside the cockpit to give us, if nothing more than a few seconds heads-up, so we could bring the helicopter to a stop, make a 180 turnaround, or do something to avoid a mid-air collision," Tomerlin said.

The Texas DPS is now the first law enforcement agency in the nation to deploy Airborne Counter Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS). The tec

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