Are you up to date on "Drone Law?"

[Billo_Really]

Personal drones for private commercial use are starting to hit the market. If you happened to get one, Drone Law would tell you where you could (and could not) fly. As well as all the civil liberty issues that rise up, if you put a camera in the nose.

Lets say you're up to date on all that, know where restricted air space is, but you got a joy stick and this thing that will fly anywhere within 500 miles before running out of fuel, where would you fly it?

Over the Grand Canyon?
Over the coast?
Over your ex-girlfriend?
Or soon-to-be ex-girlfriend?
If someone canceled on you at the last minute and you were a little suspicious of their reasons, would you send up drone to check it out?

"If you had a drone, where would you fly it?"​

 

[g5000]

I think having a drone would quickly become boring. What could a drone do that I could not do in a car, except look at the same place from above?

Big deal.

 

[Chuckt]

Personal drones for private commercial use are starting to hit the market. If you happened to get one, Drone Law would tell you where you could (and could not) fly. As well as all the civil liberty issues that rise up, if you put a camera in the nose.

Lets say you're up to date on all that, know where restricted air space is, but you got a joy stick and this thing that will fly anywhere within 500 miles before running out of fuel, where would you fly it?

Over the Grand Canyon?
Over the coast?
Over your ex-girlfriend?
Or soon-to-be ex-girlfriend?
If someone canceled on you at the last minute and you were a little suspicious of their reasons, would you send up drone to check it out?

"If you had a drone, where would you fly it?"​

I would think you almost have the same rights as private planes but good luck in convincing anybody because of liability.

 

[Chuckt]

Personal drones for private commercial use are starting to hit the market. If you happened to get one, Drone Law would tell you where you could (and could not) fly. As well as all the civil liberty issues that rise up, if you put a camera in the nose.

Lets say you're up to date on all that, know where restricted air space is, but you got a joy stick and this thing that will fly anywhere within 500 miles before running out of fuel, where would you fly it?

Over the Grand Canyon?
Over the coast?
Over your ex-girlfriend?
Or soon-to-be ex-girlfriend?
If someone canceled on you at the last minute and you were a little suspicious of their reasons, would you send up drone to check it out?

"If you had a drone, where would you fly it?"​

Aircraft has to be certified by the FAA whereas drones are not.
People can build their own aircraft and get an experimental license.
The problem is that people are building their own drones and they aren't tested in a wind tunnel or studied to see how they perform with turbulence.
Drones are pilotless and no one has had their programs checked to see how well their chips perform in all weather and turbulence conditions.
Real pilots adhere to flying rules where as non-licensed drone operators don't think they have to follow the same rules.
The technology for drones, i.e. the electric motor is not as strong as a gasoline engine. Parts are not as robust for drones as they are for modern aircraft.
Toys can't perform as safe as real aircraft in my opinion.
Name a drone that has a gyroscope to keep it stable? I don't know of any or many.
The problem with drones is their electric motors can't accelerate fast enough to dodge shifting wind current and can be blown around causing them to fall.

Drones need supervision by human beings to know that they aren't doing something stupid.
What collision avoidance systems do drones have? Ah. None.

I believe drones are not allowed to operate over 400 feet or about. The reason strobe lights are attached to antennas are so that low flying aircraft will see them. When you remove altitude from drones, there are a whole lot more things that they can collide with that a plane might not have to contend with.

Drones are not safe around people the same way that cars and trucks don't necessarily mix.

I'm not saying that you can't have a drone but look at all the things this technology has to overcome.

Drones need to have a wind tunnel test. Are drones stable in high winds? You won't know until you test wind speed and stability and have some studies.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

Personal drones for private commercial use are starting to hit the market. If you happened to get one, Drone Law would tell you where you could (and could not) fly. As well as all the civil liberty issues that rise up, if you put a camera in the nose.

Lets say you're up to date on all that, know where restricted air space is, but you got a joy stick and this thing that will fly anywhere within 500 miles before running out of fuel, where would you fly it?

Over the Grand Canyon?
Over the coast?
Over your ex-girlfriend?
Or soon-to-be ex-girlfriend?
If someone canceled on you at the last minute and you were a little suspicious of their reasons, would you send up drone to check it out?

"If you had a drone, where would you fly it?"​

Sorry, no – use of drones by private individuals doesn’t constitute a civil liberties issue; civil liberties issues concern only the relationship between the citizen and his government.

Otherwise, private use of drones will likely be subject to appropriate regulatory policies, along with potential criminal violations construed as stalking.

 

[Politico]

Where? Anywhere I wanted to. The government does.

 

[Chuckt]

Personal drones for private commercial use are starting to hit the market. If you happened to get one, Drone Law would tell you where you could (and could not) fly. As well as all the civil liberty issues that rise up, if you put a camera in the nose.

Lets say you're up to date on all that, know where restricted air space is, but you got a joy stick and this thing that will fly anywhere within 500 miles before running out of fuel, where would you fly it?

Over the Grand Canyon?
Over the coast?
Over your ex-girlfriend?
Or soon-to-be ex-girlfriend?
If someone canceled on you at the last minute and you were a little suspicious of their reasons, would you send up drone to check it out?

"If you had a drone, where would you fly it?"​

Sorry, no – use of drones by private individuals doesn’t constitute a civil liberties issue; civil liberties issues concern only the relationship between the citizen and his government.

Otherwise, private use of drones will likely be subject to appropriate regulatory policies, along with potential criminal violations construed as stalking.

But we've been conditioned to have to "opt out" because the politicians are not defending our personal liberties or otherwise telemarketers and google wouldn't be able to invade our rights and spy on us.

 

[Chuckt]

How do you de-ice a drone?
What do you do when a drone has ice form on it and it becomes too heavy for safe flight?
The hobby community is not sophisticated enough to answer all of these questions because they don't operate like a business and they don't have the licensing hours of regular pilots to answer these questions.

 

[Politico]

You launch your rockets. The tallfire burns the ice off.

 

[Crystalclear]

This sounds very unconstitutional, people who know the Constitution, is it?
I hate the idea of governments using drones and stuff like that, but the fact that every citizen can buy them is even worse.

 

[Billo_Really]

What inspired this thread, was this incident.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBPa0q8XFls]German Drone almost hitting airbus jet plane. - YouTube[/ame]



Was this terrorism? Or an unfortunate incident?