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FAA institutes nationwide drone no-fly zones around ICE operations

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Re: FAA institutes nationwide drone no-fly zones around ICE operations

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Post by arthurcolle »

CamperBob2 wrote: post #7

My understanding is that DJI drones no longer enforce no-fly zones. Supposedly they still warn you when entering a restricted zone, but hard geofencing functionality is no longer in effect. Anyone know if that's true?

I highly doubt this

Edit: owner of matrice m100 and a few other DJI drones

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Post by Sevii »

theoreticalmal wrote: post #8

I don’t fully understand why drone operators follow these laws. Or any “no-fly” rules in general. Around an airport, it seems like common sense to not fly. Can’t someone just…buy/build a drone and fly is surreptitiously?

Potential criminal charges are enough to deter most people.

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Post by garciasn »

koiueo wrote: post #10
actionfromafar wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You don't understand. You must always respect authority. Trump is the highest authority in the land, put there by God.

I no longer know if it's sarcasm

It depends on what team you’re rooting for in the sports game that has become politics in the US.

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Post by killingtime74 »

theoreticalmal wrote: post #8

I don’t fully understand why drone operators follow these laws. Or any “no-fly” rules in general. Around an airport, it seems like common sense to not fly. Can’t someone just…buy/build a drone and fly is surreptitiously?

What if you're already flying when they enter your vicinity. It's pretty easy to do in a city. Also they may not announce themselves until you're already violating or even after when they charge you

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Post by arter45 »

theoreticalmal wrote: post #8

I don’t fully understand why drone operators follow these laws. Or any “no-fly” rules in general. Around an airport, it seems like common sense to not fly. Can’t someone just…buy/build a drone and fly is surreptitiously?

Traditional, permanent no-fly areas tend to be enforced by the drone firmware (via GPS checks), so sometimes there is also a technological obstacle.

This is probably not the case here, but IIRC there are criminal charges attached to violating NOTAMs, so there’s still some kind of deterrence.

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Post by actionfromafar »

koiueo wrote: post #10
actionfromafar wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You don't understand. You must always respect authority. Trump is the highest authority in the land, put there by God.

I no longer know if it's sarcasm

That's because this is a pretty mainstream opinion now. I'd say... a quarter to a third of the population holds such beliefs.

If you ever shook your head at theocratic regimes such as Iran, well maybe look a little closer to home. "But... the people in charge of Iran are hypocrites, they do nasty stuff at home behind closed doors."

Again, may I point to Mom: "we have mullas at home".

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Post by ghouse »

frumplestlatz wrote: post #14
CamperBob2 wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not nearly well-funded enough. You get $50000 for joining ICE, you get ten bullets in the back for filming them.

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If you can't make heads or tails of the videos, then how is it clear to you he wasn't merely filming?
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