Posted on 06/24/2014 7:31:28 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The National Park Service on Friday announced it was moving to ban drones on all its lands..
The move comes amid growing concern about hobbyists using drones to create dramatic videos.
The ban would cover more than 84 million acres of public land. The director of the parks service cited safety concerns as well as potential harm to wildlife.
"Imagine you're a big wall climber in Yosemite working on a four-day climb up El Capitan, and you're hanging off a bulb, ready to make a [difficult] move, and an unmanned aircraft flies up beside you and is hovering a few feet from your head with its GoPro camera running," Jonathan Jarvis told the Associated Press. "Think about what that does to your experience and your safety."
The move comes several months after Yosemite National Park banned unmanned aircraft in that park...
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
What garbage. What if monkeys flew out of Obama’s a$$.
All the dope growers will be breathing a little easier in the near future.
Fine, so long as it applies to gov drones as well as private drones.
Govt drones=target drones....
No redress, just WHAM! One hobbyist activity (rc areal photography) disfavored over another (rock climbing) banned in millions of acres of federally controlled land. Maybe the rock climber should go scale a freeway overpass and leave the pristine wilderness to the rc hobbyists. That would be just as arbitrary.
Let the games begin.
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Silly me, I thought they were OUR lands.
Funny joke, peasant.
Congress should decide this, not a regulatory agency.
Congress should decide this, not a regulatory agency.
“No redress, just WHAM! One hobbyist activity (rc areal photography) disfavored over another (rock climbing) banned in millions of acres of federally controlled land. Maybe the rock climber should go scale a freeway overpass and leave the pristine wilderness to the rc hobbyists. That would be just as arbitrary.”
I believe I misattributed the quote.
Drone is target if only the gooberment is allowed to fly.
“No redress, just WHAM! One hobbyist activity (rc areal photography) disfavored over another (rock climbing) banned in millions of acres of federally controlled land. Maybe the rock climber should go scale a freeway overpass and leave the pristine wilderness to the rc hobbyists. That would be just as arbitrary.”
I believe I misattributed the quote.
Drone is target if only the gooberment is allowed to fly.
“No redress, just WHAM! One hobbyist activity (rc areal photography) disfavored over another (rock climbing) banned in millions of acres of federally controlled land. Maybe the rock climber should go scale a freeway overpass and leave the pristine wilderness to the rc hobbyists. That would be just as arbitrary.”
I believe I misattributed the quote.
Drone is target if only the gooberment is allowed to fly.
“No redress, just WHAM! One hobbyist activity (rc areal photography) disfavored over another (rock climbing) banned in millions of acres of federally controlled land. Maybe the rock climber should go scale a freeway overpass and leave the pristine wilderness to the rc hobbyists. That would be just as arbitrary.”
I believe I misattributed the quote.
Drone is target if only the gooberment is allowed to fly.
“No redress, just WHAM! One hobbyist activity (rc areal photography) disfavored over another (rock climbing) banned in millions of acres of federally controlled land. Maybe the rock climber should go scale a freeway overpass and leave the pristine wilderness to the rc hobbyists. That would be just as arbitrary.”
I believe I misattributed the quote.
Drone is target if only the gooberment is allowed to fly.
Banning is easy, enforcing is not.
Nailed it.
Sorry for stuttering. Freaking helicopter overflights!
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