Posted on 01/30/2014 11:59:11 AM PST by MeshugeMikey
The Lakemaid micro brewery started delivering beer to ice fishers using drones, at least until the FAA coldly shut their operation down. The FAA is currently reviewing their policies. According to the beer company’s president, Jack Supple, “They think it’s a great idea, though they’re telling me to stop.”
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Be careful they don’t crossbreed - they get vicious.
I think you have your mind wrapped around a Global-Hawk/Predator type drone.
These “drones” are more like the quad-rotor helicopters. Short range.
If you are flying danger close over an iced up lake, you’ve got worse issues to deal with than bumping into a flying six-pack.
Gee... a guy could make some real money if he had DRONES deliver BEER AND BAIT.
No. I don’t. Wouldn’t operate one, my insurance wouldn’t cover one, and I wouldn’t fly in one I didn’t trust.
You know... The way it used to be before the FedGov got involved and a bunch of bureaucrats regulated Henry Ford’s biggest dream into a rich persons hobby.
I note you still aren’t even bothering to justify the FedGov’s over-reach by even having an FAA. I’ll take that to mean that you’ve at least glanced at Art 1 Sec 8 and realize trying to make that case is futile.
Can’t have that. Get some Federal flunky, with no Constitutional justification for their authority, to shut them down...
Oh... wait...
Looks like it'd fly high enough to take out a U-2. Call Eric Holder... /sarc
You assume that flying that low over a frozen lake is due to an emergency. As it stands, there is no restriction like that on aircraft operation, although I doubt an airliner would do so for economic reasons.
With respect to the FAA's existence, you are correct - there is no specific mention of aviation in the constitution in Article 1 section 8. But there is one sentence that could come to bear:
To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;
I am unclear if the word "Government" here means the federal government, or 'governing', so I will not claim this is authoritative. If it means 'governing' then this is clearly referring to things such as the UCMJ.
I guess I don't see a good way to assure safety in the skies absent such an agency. Do you have any proposals on the subject?
BATF might regulate the solid fuel “engines” since those are technically explosives. But they don’t control what I can shoot into the air, do they? And again, under what authority?
If you are trying to land on your ski's... Better not tip over my icehouse. Don't take kindly to that kind of thing up here.
Do you have any proposals on the subject?
Yes. Like I said. A NGO like the IEEE, Underwriters, etc... This would be able to provide standards and licensing while not stifling competition or innovation.
Take the idea one step further and apply the same scenario to the FCC, FDA, USDA, and NASA...
Would you codify limited immunity from liability with compliance to NGO standards?
BTW - RTCA is one such NGO that is heavily used by the FAA for the determination of rules and regs that the FAA adopts, currently.
No State or anyone else can stop federal drones. Drones are the next iteration of SWAT raids. They have fewer complications and cost a lot less. First the feds will use them, somewhat discretely, then more openly then the states and local departments will see the advantages of SWADs (Special Weapons Assault Drones).
I don’t know at what altitudes these drones fly, but I cant imagine that it approachs that of even the small prop aircraft.
My copy of the Constitution does not have the FAA listed...
Mine either! we have a quorum.
an amazing set of “data”.
whos going to drop a dime on a beer carrying drone anyway...
Small aircraft can (and sometimes do) legally fly low over open terrain.
To assume that nobody would fly there is not valid. Such an assumption can easily get someone killed.
if they meet the Presidents rigid style..standards
ahahah Yes it does come to think of it.
at what altitude do the beer drones fly anyway?
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