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Again this is specific to the US, but there is no law that specifies a minimum altitude for drones as long as it is not touching the ground.
Does CFR § 91.119 not apply? https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-14/chapter-I/subchapter-F...
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I guess some of us count life in web requests.
Can you write up a blog post about how many months of the year you are being blocked from banking?
I frankly don't give a shit to spend time on this with you anymore.
It's pointless to debate our personal definitions.
Have fun
Aside: It's going to be a great time when the crows, raccoons, and other semi-intelligent wildlife discover that these drones have food in them at seemingly random reward schedules. Sure, you can give the drones little tasers to keep the animals away, depending on your locality. But knowing what I know about bears and crows, almost nothing is going to stop them. Especially when some influencer jerk tries tempting a b…
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What's the other recourse? Unless you are rich, cops don't care.
Elect new leaders in your city who will change that. It’s not like that everywhere, and you’re playing in to the hand of the corrupt to pretend otherwise.
Playing in the hands of the corrupt is to shame others for not relying on a fundamentally unreliable police force, in fact.
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For what it's worth, shooting at aircraft (including drones) is a federal offense, and the FAA takes that one pretty seriously. Drones also have cameras.
The question is so common that it has its own section in the FAA’s drone FAQ > Can you shoot down drones above your property? > It’s illegal under federal law to shoot at an aircraft. A private citizen shooting at any aircraft – including unmanned aircraft – poses a significant safety hazard. An unmanned aircraft hit by gunfire could crash, causing damage to persons or property on the ground, or it could collide with…
Naturally the FAA wouldn't be inclined to advertise such lines of thought.
Aside: It's going to be a great time when the crows, raccoons, and other semi-intelligent wildlife discover that these drones have food in them at seemingly random reward schedules. Sure, you can give the drones little tasers to keep the animals away, depending on your locality. But knowing what I know about bears and crows, almost nothing is going to stop them. Especially when some influencer jerk tries tempting a b…
Except for those 4-8 prop blades spinning at high rpm. Then multiple layers of packaging to get the item. It'll be interesting to see if it actually happens, my prediction is that trash bags will still be preferable risk/reward.
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> What if 10 neighbors collude and start flying drones over my garden and house, only a few meters above ground or my roof, 24/7? What if your neighbours climb on your roof and start banging on your windows at night?
In many jurisdictions, GP would be within their rights to shoot at them in that case. Re the FAA rules, there's a clear difference between planes or helicopters going overhead at safe and relatively high altitudes* and drones flying at much lower ones. Occasional passes from hobby or semi-pro drones used by photographers are a minor irritation, but if drone delivery became a regular thing I can see how frequent low a…
I imagine it will remain ambiguous until a sufficiently public stunt forces the issue all the way up to SCOTUS and they determine a concrete minimum distance that must be maintained from structures.
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Most people seriously looking to shoot down a drone would be using a shotgun and bird shot, so that's essentially a non-issue.
Shotguns are only good for about 100 feet, most delivery drones transit higher than that.
But anyway if you aren't rich enough to laugh off half a decade of court costs then you probably shouldn't shoot at them at all.
In my neighborhood (rural) a drone hovering over someone's property would be likely used as target practice. If delivery drones become commonplace, there are going to have to be regulations about which air corridors they can use (altitude and routes) or it will be chaos.
In the US, shooting a drone is the same as shooting an aircraft and that means federal law enforcement attention, especially when the drone is owned by one of the largest, richest companies in the world, with lots of data and video footage.
There's not a jury in the world that would convict someone of shooting a drone flying over there own backyard.