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I’ve already had a drone hovering outside Daughters bedroom window. Some people have very different concerns about accountability of drones.
Magnetron and a wok for a dish. Kitchen counter measures.
Go on....
FAA issuing new rules to allow drones to fly over people and at night
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Re: FAA issuing new rules to allow drones to fly over people and at night
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People do not need educating not to spy on teenage girls with drones, they do not need training to not do it.
But that's not why the FAA is regulating it, and these regulations won't stop that. They're regulating because people are flying recklessly above 400ft, above roadways, and in restricted airspace.
On an intellectual level not distracting and crashing a Boeing is more important.
On a dad level, well. Protective emotions can be intense.
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Honestly this just sounds like NIMBY. First there are loud drones and quiet drones, noise pollution can be regulated. Next the video from a drone for spying on a woman jogging is nothing compared to someone with a decent DSLR with a telephoto that makes zero noise. And third drone deliveries could have airspace carved out that avoids residential or places that would annoy people. Now that said some people are obnoxio…
The idea of police drones flying around is honestly even worse
Tons of police have drones for video, rescue, etc. Some of them are huge: https://www.dji.com/matrice-300?site=enterprise&from=nav
Re: FAA issuing new rules to allow drones to fly over people and at night
#94Even though I don't fly over people, I retrofitted a parachute onto my DJI drone just in case. It automatically deploys if the drone loses power or control. It doesn't impact flight characteristics or battery life by much. I feel like a basic safety like this would be a prudent and more effective measure for overhead flights than self-transmitting "license plates" (which I agree are at least better than the silly int…
oh if you can that would be really cool to see how you did that... I'd love to retrofit something like this to my drone... I did buy my kids a drone and the issue there was they flew it into a very tall tree... needless say it's still in the very tall tree
What you need is a second drone..
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#95The final rule looks to be a big win for everyone who was protesting the original proposed rule: "The final Remote ID rule eliminates the requirement that drones be connected to the internet to transmit location data; the final rule requires drones to broadcasts remote ID messages via radio frequency broadcast." This is great because RF broadcast-based Remote ID is much simpler and cost-effective to integrate into ex…
It is extremely hypocritical in any form. At the same time that the FAA is asking hobbyists to broadcast identification, they are modifying the rules to allow the rich and famous to change their identifiers at will preventing any sort of public accountability. https://www.faa.gov/nextgen/equipadsb/privacy/
Re: FAA issuing new rules to allow drones to fly over people and at night
#96Earlier quoted context omitted.
I’ve already had a drone hovering outside Daughters bedroom window. Some people have very different concerns about accountability of drones.
I’ve already had a drone hovering outside Daughters bedroom window. A couple of years ago, a guy up the street got a "drone" for Christmas, and spent the next couple of weeks flying into the backyards of everyone on the block, presumably to look in the windows or see what else he could get away with. I don't know why he thought that was a good idea, especially since the thing was noisy as hell. It stopped suddenly. I…
I’ll never understand people who use drones like this, even ignoring the obvious moral and ethical issues of voyeurism they’re loud and obnoxious at the altitudes you would need to go peeping through windows.
Every time I try and assuage fears laypeople have about drones and privacy there’s a story or anecdote about some dumbass who does stuff like this anyway...
Re: FAA issuing new rules to allow drones to fly over people and at night
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Honestly this just sounds like NIMBY. First there are loud drones and quiet drones, noise pollution can be regulated. Next the video from a drone for spying on a woman jogging is nothing compared to someone with a decent DSLR with a telephoto that makes zero noise. And third drone deliveries could have airspace carved out that avoids residential or places that would annoy people. Now that said some people are obnoxio…
I had a neighbor hover a large, very noisy drone over my wife who was working in her backyard garden, out of sight from said neighbors, who were piloting from the house across from me. She was terrified. There easily could have been a large escalation. After my intervention it hasn't happened again, but the sort of judgement that leads to the stupidity in the first place, in my experience, cannot resist the lure to o…
Out of line of sight sounds illegal from looking at the FAA. Flying over people is currently illegal too. Flying while drinking is also illegal... Report them to the FAA.
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#98Remote ID Executive Summary: https://www.faa.gov/news/media/attachments/RemoteID_Executiv...
Remote ID Final Ruling: https://www.faa.gov/news/media/attachments/RemoteID_Final_Ru...
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I’d pay good money for a shotgun-like device that had power enough to take down the drones foreigners like to fly meters from my face videotaping me as I walk down the beach, but not powerful enough to be dangerous to use in such contexts.
hard to see how this could be legal. you don't get to destroy other people's stuff just because they are annoying you with it. even if what they are doing is not quite legal, you would probably end up on the wrong side of the law yourself.
> you don't get to destroy other people's stuff just because they are annoying you with it.
https://www.popularmechanics.com/flight/drones/news/a17969/m...
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#100Earlier quoted context omitted.
Birdshot?
I’d pay good money for a shotgun-like device that had power enough to take down the drones foreigners like to fly meters from my face videotaping me as I walk down the beach, but not powerful enough to be dangerous to use in such contexts.
> drones foreigners like to fly meters from my face videotaping me
Please explain. I'm genuinely curious.