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Can I stop drone delivery companies flying over my property?

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Re: Can I stop drone delivery companies flying over my property?

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Post by aigen01 »

Sohcahtoa82 wrote: post #308

My question is...why would you want to? Throughout the comments, it sounds like people are expecting these drones to only be ~50 feet above the ground, buzzing right over houses, or being a noisy nuisance hovering in place endlessly. Maybe it's because I live in an area with lots of tall trees, but I'd expect these drones to be flying at least 200 feet up. At that height, it becomes difficult to hear the drone unless…

I read an article about the folks in College Station who live close to the amazon warehouse that was testing out drone deliveries. Drones would pass by their houses about once every three minutes at low ~50-150 feet above ground and people complained about how loud and frequent they were.

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Post by ty6853 »

mulmen wrote: post #309
rurp wrote: post #299

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Obama administration's decision to do nothing in that case is one of several extremely risk averse decisions that seemed questionable at the time and turned out to be quite bad in hindsight. Shrugging off Russia's invasion of Ukraine being another. It shouldn't have been a surprise that letting armed militias break federal law with little to no consequence would encourage further bad behavior.

I always thought that hesitation was an over-correction after Ruby Ridge and Waco.

The hesitation was likely because something like a dozen of their own guys were in there (which they refused to identify at trial, so we only know the ID of one that was discovered), and the guy leading the live fire exercises, Fabio Minoggio, was a paid FBI informant (now cop) who was "psyops" trained 20 year veteran of the swiss military.

No real need to address the standoff, when the standoff is yourself vs yourself, and your own guy is by his own admission providing a "supervisory" role of the live fire.

Re: Can I stop drone delivery companies flying over my property?

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Post by scoofy »

aigen01 wrote: post #311
Sohcahtoa82 wrote: post #308

My question is...why would you want to? Throughout the comments, it sounds like people are expecting these drones to only be ~50 feet above the ground, buzzing right over houses, or being a noisy nuisance hovering in place endlessly. Maybe it's because I live in an area with lots of tall trees, but I'd expect these drones to be flying at least 200 feet up. At that height, it becomes difficult to hear the drone unless…

I read an article about the folks in College Station who live close to the amazon warehouse that was testing out drone deliveries. Drones would pass by their houses about once every three minutes at low ~50-150 feet above ground and people complained about how loud and frequent they were.

Drones are surprisingly loud. I’ve been at some golf events where they were doing drone photography and it was a constant distraction from the tranquility.

Re: Can I stop drone delivery companies flying over my property?

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Post by [deleted] »

ty6853 wrote: post #283
mulmen wrote: post #262

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The men with badges didn't "suddenly become brave". This was a planned operation to capture the leaders of the Malheur standoff. I can find no evidence or even claim that the passengers in LaVoy Finicum's truck were his family. He was transporting Ryan Bundy along with Shawna Cox, Victoria Sharp, and Ryan Payne. Ammon Bundy was in a trailing Jeep. Ammon surrendered in the initial stop but Finicum fled. After crashing…

It appears you are correct about the other members of the truck (though I'm unsure to what extent they were leaders). I had seen the video before but thought them in his family as he raised lots of foster children who may look quite unlike him. The rest still stands, and the following interesting facts >An Oregon State Police SWAT member, identified in the trial of FBI agent Astarita as "Officer 1", fired three shots…

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Re: Can I stop drone delivery companies flying over my property?

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Post by IAmBroom »

aeternum wrote: post #305
mystified5016 wrote: post #304

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Counterpoint: lots of people are still actively advocating for more coal power plants

And more wind turbines which actually do frequently kill birds. Solar + Nuclear plz

Coal kills birds AND humans.

It just doesn't do so directly, so we ignore the number of children who die from pulmonary issues.

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Post by ryandrake »

gamblor956 wrote: post #250
KennyBlanken wrote: post #12

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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.

Good luck securing a conviction. There's not a jury in the world that would convict someone of shooting a drone flying over there own backyard.

If I knew I had a yahoo neighbor blasting away with their guns, with my children playing in the backyard next door to them, I'd volunteer for that jury, just to have a chance to convict the guy. This is not how civilized people behave.

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Post by CobrastanJorji »

rolph wrote: post #237
CobrastanJorji wrote: post #229

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Which law? Is there an FAA rule concerning minimum drone height over someone's property? I understand there's generally a maximum of 400 feet for drones, but I don't know about any rules for minimum height.

https://ageagle.com/blog/drone-regulations-usa-fly-over-peop... https://ageagle.com/blog/european-union-drone-regulations-ex... https://www.dronepilotgroundschool.com/kb/can-i-fly-my-drone... https://nexttools.net/how-close-can-you-fly-a-drone-to-a-per... https://www.easa.europa.eu/en/light/topics/flying-drones-clo... https://www.dronelaw.pro/faa-rules-say-you-cant-fly-your-dro... https://dspalliance.org/new-rules-fo…

Wow, these rules are incredibly poorly defined. I'll take the bit that says "20-30 feet high with propeller guards over a small family gathering in the park wouldn’t necessarily require any additional documentation" to mean that flying 30 feet in the air over people is legal. And people can definitely throw a rock 30 feet high.

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Post by ryandrake »

zelphirkalt wrote: post #52
thih9 wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Well,not my country, but I think it is quite a silly and too general rule: 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 one of their drones crashes without my doing and hurts _me_? So the actual rules need to be more nuanced than this, to prevent people doing crazy shit with their tech gadgets hurting others. They cannot be giv…

> What if 10 neighbors collude and start flying drones over my garden and house, only a few meters above ground or my roof

There are more appropriate legal avenues one can use to curtail harassment, besides blasting away with a firearm.

> What if one of their drones crashes without my doing and hurts _me_?

You can step away and avoid it, or swat it away with a baseball bat, and/or if it hits you, you can sue them for property damage and injury. None of these scenarios require you to fire a deadly weapon into the air.

Honestly, this thread is scary--it reads like a bunch of people yearning to shoot their guns at something and trying desperately to find a wild scenario to justify it.

Re: Can I stop drone delivery companies flying over my property?

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Post by IAmBroom »

rolph wrote: post #28

drones have minimum distance and altitude regulations as well as restrictions from operating above people. also, stock up on fishing line

> drones have minimum distance and altitude regulations as well as restrictions from operating above people.

1. What does "minimum distance... regulations" even mean?

2. Drones do not have minimum altitude regulations, except in cases where ALL air traffic is limited.

3. Drones have a few restrictions from operating above people, but hardly enough to prevent interactions. See FAA's Operations Over People rule.

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Post by sigio »

aeternum wrote: post #305
mystified5016 wrote: post #304

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Counterpoint: lots of people are still actively advocating for more coal power plants

And more wind turbines which actually do frequently kill birds. Solar + Nuclear plz

No more then glass buildings...
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