Posted on 07/29/2015 7:19:24 AM PDT by Rodamala
I do believe that the courts have determined that your property lines extend vertically (and possibly, infinitely?) unless, like subterranean property lines (AKA: mineral rights) you have exchanged those rights for recompense.
Think: military fly zones.
Sounds good but...
I ain’t cleaning your gun, brother!
The loss of the drone would be proven if operator was recording the live feed from the camera. Of course, depending on what else was recorded, he may not want to submit such evidence to the court.
Not to mention snooping for things to steal for fun and profit, monitoring the movements of potential burglary targets, etc.
Jammers might work for a while, as long as they’re not used continuously (FCC will be on you), but with state of the art sensors and processors, a drone losing the signal from base would merely put it into fail safe mode to return to base via inertial navigation.
Don’t know if they’re that sophisticated yet, but they will. Heck, they’ll have them fully autonomous and programmable (commercially) if they aren’t already.
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If you did that enough times hopefully the operator would realize that the drone is not welcome in certain parts. His craft is intact, and you aren't causing any damage.
Escalation. Yep that’s the way it started. We’d send up a scout plane for recon, they’d send up a plane with a guy and a gun to shoot it down. Then we’d send up planes to shoot at the other guy in a plane with a gun and thus was the birth of the fighter aircraft.
Fighter drones may actually come about quicker in the civilian world than the military one. Who knows.
No. According to the federal airspace rules, radio control model airplanes are limited to no more than 400' altitude.
Also, they cannot fly over buildings and must be kept at least 100' from people.
R/C aircraft must also be flown specifically by line of sight. They cannot be flown first-person video (FPV)
Naturally, a lot of drone owners disregard these rules and do whatever they darn well please.
I have no sympathy for these idiots. They got what they deserved. I hope the shotgun blast did significant damage to their drone. The only reason they were flying so low was to shoot video. (read: peeping tom)
Yea, hopefully, but we’re not always talking about deep thinkers either.
A few years ago, some angry hunters blew a drone out of the sky being operated by some animal rights activist. Anyone remember how that one finally turned out?
“Fighter drones may actually come about quicker in the civilian world than the military one. Who knows.”
Oh, there already is one- as one commenter said after viewing the video “the world just got a whole lot scarier”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqHrTtvFFIs
Helluva caliber.
Hopefully, but only after the shooter has spent thousands of dollars on lawyer's fees.
If I were charged with shooting the drone I would sue the drone's owner for invading my privacy. In any event, I don't believe a jury would find the shooter guilty of a crime since they would know that some other drone's owner could fly his drone over their property with impunity based on a conviction of the property owner in this case.
On another much more serious note, my son is a pilot for a major airline and he knows of at least one flight crew that has been virtually blinded by a laser during a critical landing procedure. That crime is far more dangerous than anything a drone could possibly do, and the perp is almost impossible to find. Maybe after a few hundred passengers are killed as a result of some teenager's fun and games played with a laser the feds will get serious about stopping that criminal activity and prosecuting the offenders to the full extent of the law.
Fired by crossbow or gun, connected to reel.
Or even a fishing rig.
Rope that peeper and bring it down.
Yea, it did.
My best to your son, who I’ll likely be flying with.
Thanks for the good wishes Doug, his mom and I pray for his safety every day.
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