Neighborhood Drone

[00tec]

Thanks for the update, because I am curious to how it plays out. Can you be more specific in what the behavior of the drone folk is? (not the being pissy about being asked to not do it, more details as far as we are talking invading a large acreage property, vs a 1/4 acre neighborhood plot, hovering high vs acrobatics sorta low around people/animals, etc)


@Def90, I think the .55lb thing had been changed or otherwise overruled even if it's still on their page. This was a thing like 2 years ago when it first happened ish. I thought I recall seeing that either a court, or another agency said essentially that some of what they were trying to regulate was outside their scope or some such. I don't fly, so I'm not any better than 50/50 on being sure that I remembered that correctly. Just happened to see a news blurb or link somewhere about it.

Initial registration requirement was overruled because the FAA was trying to just do a rule change outside of their allowed scope.
Then registration got added back in along with some budget bill somewhere.

[Bailey Guns]

Lots of organizations, gov't and otherwise, are using drones these days...police depts, assessors, etc.

[fitz19d]

I think Davsel owns acreage, so the likelyhood of a drone being directly over his residence is low, and if that is the case, the operator would be in error. I think most of use live in dense neighborhoods where someone having an inspection next door might be unnerving.

I'm curious how many drones don't even have cameras. Is that a thing?

Especially cheaper hobby grade which can seem large, plenty of them don't have cameras. Then a large Segment have basic cameras that take video or images that are downloaded later to view but are not used to fly. As you might guess that makes taking spy photos hard blindly recording.

[Grant H.]

Especially cheaper hobby grade which can seem large, plenty of them don't have cameras. Then a large Segment have basic cameras that take video or images that are downloaded later to view but are not used to fly. As you might guess that makes taking spy photos hard blindly recording.

Most all that have a camera have some form of a lower-res video stream back to the controller, for visual confirmation of the shot, but the high-res stuff is stored onboard until landed and downloaded later.

Race quads don't have high res cameras, for the most part, but they do have lower-res with a video stream for FPV flying of courses. (Googles so it appears that your eyes are on the front of the quad).

[Grant H.]

Neighbor was contacted, and it did not go well... Hence my question.

Other authorities have been contacted. I'll keep this updated.

But thanks guys!

I would certainly be interested in updates as this unfolds.

I know that I/We have been pretty careful about not annoying folks with our quads, but we also have easy access to hundreds of acres of BC open space that is never monitored or checked (except by the farmer that leases it for his cattle)...

[Irving]

Home security drone!

https://www.cnet.com/news/home-secur...from-prowlers/

[sniper7]

I have a kamikaze drone ready to attack any invading drones over my property. Tell them to head to Walmart and starting learning to fly, attack from above. You can even hang paracord or strong string that will catch their props...of course it is really used to help you see which direction the drone is facing and if it is drifting on you...you are learning to fly after all!