Guess they knew they would be safe from spears...
Mongo, for the win!
Guess they knew they would be safe from spears...
I'll ask again: How many drone fly-overs do you get annually? And of that number, how many are hovering and leering at you?
I guess my point is, "is all this just hypothetical, or is there a very real practical component?" I'm really curious if people are actually having a problem with this.
The laws are on the books, so what's the issue now? Airspace rights? What do you want done?
IngoMike, I don't disagree with you. Anyone stalking private property needs to pay a price. I will say that most consumer drones have a 1x lens, so they're not really going to get any 'bikini' detail.....The picture below is what most drone flyers are looking for....
Judging from the height of the trees I'm guessing that photo was taken from at least 250' up.
What's the view the neighborhood teenage boy gets when he buzzes a pool at 30' up?
Judging from the height of the trees I'm guessing that photo was taken from at least 250' up.
What's the view the neighborhood teenage boy gets when he buzzes a pool at 30' up?
I believe it's 83'.I'll see if I can find a representative photo. Anybody buzzing my property at 30' is going to get the law called on them.
I do believe, by law (and states vary in their laws) your property rights extend 400 or 500 ft above your property. Of course, someone just passing through at 350 ft, and keeps moving, you're probably not even going to know they were there.
Add to this Amazon has stated that they will be delivering merchandise via drones in the near future. So the drone you blast just may be carrying your latest purchase.
Yes, the good old days, before aircraft could violate a man's airspace above his castle....
and before vaccines, refrigeration, modern sanitation, modern medical care, etc, etc...
(Yes, I did have to Google it!)
Specifically on drones though, soon enough many municipalities will be using them in terms of code enforcement, etc. Maybe you're a construction worker/carpenter your whole life... Anyone who's seen even 5 episodes of any of the house-flipping shows on HGTV knows alot of houses have unpermitted additions. Now all those towns can fly over every backyard and say these people aren't supposed to have a deck, or that 10x14 bulge on the west/back side of the house isn't supposed to be there.
As drones get smaller, lighter, have better cameras and flight times you will not be able to shoot them down, swap them, spray them or even know where they are. Drones under 1/2 pound don't even need registered.
My next drone will be the Mavic2 Zoom with a 2x camera. Soon, they'll have 4x, 8x and who knows how much zoom. You won't be able to see nor hear them at distance but they'll see you. Better keep your pants on RobbyQ!
You might own the ground but you don't own the sky. You don't "own" x number of feet above your property & don't have a right to interfere with an UAS while in flight.
[edit - a good website to see where you can fly: https://app.airmap.io ]
Not the world I want to live in, you guys sound excited by this. Others are excited about Amazon drone delivery, who the heck wants millions of drones darkening the sky delivering packages?
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Specifically on drones though, soon enough many municipalities will be using them in terms of code enforcement, etc. Maybe you're a construction worker/carpenter your whole life... Anyone who's seen even 5 episodes of any of the house-flipping shows on HGTV knows alot of houses have unpermitted additions. Now all those towns can fly over every backyard and say these people aren't supposed to have a deck, or that 10x14 bulge on the west/back side of the house isn't supposed to be there.
the military has been doing this over battlefields for a long while nowI gotta dig up that podcast... there's a company that offers 24/7 monitoring for cities. Did a robbery happen? Well then, review the tape and you can backtrack the suspects movement for days before, thus allowing you to find the residence of the suspect for easy nabbing. The footage was a grainy mess, but at least you could follow the blobs around the city.
That, of course, has a whole host of privacy issues.
Personally, I'm more concerned about being tracked around the city, rather than someone looking at my buttcrack while I'm gardening in the backyard.
In case some here haven't kept up with drone technology, there are flying drones that look like birds and flap their wings for propulsion. Giving a drone the ability to glide without using battery power to stay aloft gains a ton of flight time.
You soon won't know if that "bird" is law enforcement trying to locate a meth house, illegal still or illegal plant growers. They will be programmed to search specific areas and have no direct human control. They will fly autonomously.
I have a buddy who builds autonomous drones for competitions. The drones fly to programmed waypoint targets along a course designed by the organizers. No human input. Weight, speed, battery life, GPS, terrain mapping, all play a part in building your drone to win.