The FAA has dropped the ball and we continue on without clear regulation of drones, so I thought it would be interesting to discuss this since so many boaters like to fly them.
What Regulations Should There Be On Drone Use?
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What you doing the other 6 months of the year, reloading?
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You gotta let um appropriate, you know. Let um have little baby drones 
besides what's there to see out on the water during a cool VA winter, or out on the ice in Michagain?
i can't answer the poll, I'm worn out from all the regulations our leaders shove down or throats as it is now. Commensence needs to step in, if you wouldn't like it done to you maybe you shouldn't do it to others
besides what's there to see out on the water during a cool VA winter, or out on the ice in Michagain?
i can't answer the poll, I'm worn out from all the regulations our leaders shove down or throats as it is now. Commensence needs to step in, if you wouldn't like it done to you maybe you shouldn't do it to others
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So, are you good with the child molester perv down the street taking drone videos of your kids or grandkids over your backyard? Over the city park?
Privacy was abundant when all of us were younger, now not so much. The drones can be fitted with a wide variety of surveillance attachments very inexpensively to watch others in ways the CIA could not when we were kids. Should we have to hide to feel we can have a private moment of peace in our lives? I’m betting that is one of the things our members treasure most on their boats, the tranquility of a secluded anchorage. Should some drone operator be able to “fly up to your boat and check out what you are doing in detail while anchored off?
I agree with your last point, but government legitimately can make rules to keep some from taking from the others. That is a far cry from regulating the food you eat or drinks you drink.
One does have "airspace rights" above your property but it is unlikely you can legally shoot down trespassing drones. They once were unlimited, meaning airspace right continued to infinity. With the advent of the airplane the courts declared that airspace, like navigable waters, was public and airspace rights were limited to such landowner owns only so much of the airspace above their property as they may reasonably use in connection with their enjoyment of the underlying land.
Does surveillance interfere with the enjoyment of the landowners land?
Like many of you I feel we are regulated to extreme, but we share an increasingly crowded country filled with the unthinking, self-centered, and Darwin Award winners. Common sense has left the building. and rampant technology fuels the transgressions of the idiots in our midst. For example, a drone video of the Chicago Boat Party would be awesome, it is a full on public event, but many of the drone users would think it fun to “sneak up” on anchored boaters to get candid shots of unsuspecting folks just trying to get a few rays of sun in their swimsuit they don’t want public.
It seems most of us here just want to be left alone by both the government and the dumb masses…
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Lets relax and post some cool boat videos you have found. Not my video but very cool.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30HDdocMyAk
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[video=youtube;qKV6g47hgRs]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKV6g47hgRs[/video]
could one of these things carry a bomb into a stadium and then explode?
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I wonder if there's something like this that would be fun to play with?
http://www.jammerall.com/categories/RF-Jammers/
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http://www.jammerall.com/categories/RF-Jammers/
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looks like apples to oranges to me........ looks like these are remote control type devices only....I could be wrong of course
http://www.jammerall.com/products/433MHz-Car-Remote-Control-Jammer.html
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I can't understand why you would want to destroy or mess up someone's stuff. They are used as toys just like RC heli and aircraft. The term drone is used to incite a reaction by the media. It is really just a RC heli. What are you trying to hide. The guy flying one in your hood is just having fun. Get over it.
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+1000! Unless it has a missile attached to it or you really hate your neighbor who cares. Someone flying them for fun shouldn't have to go through a bunch of red tape just to fly the damn thing. If they're used for spying, peeping or anything like that then I say shoot them down.
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I'd be having fun too....I don't want to destroy anything...just want it to lose about 200 feet of altitude and watch the guy crap his pants :grin:
If spending 10 years in the federal pokey for operating a radio frequency jammer is "having fun", more power to you.
http://www.fcc.gov/encyclopedia/jammer-enforcement
http://www.fcc.gov/encyclopedia/jammer-enforcement
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I ain't skeered of no damn law....shoot...there's laws against everything. I'd hardly be waving the thing around so they could see me...like the movie title says "Catch Me if You Can"
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The problem I see is privacy. As I am not 'allowed' to fire a gun inside city limits, any yahoo with a couple of boat units can hover a quad-copter with an GoPro over my yard. Awesome for thieves casing the neighborhood and Law Enforcement looking for probable cause. "What do I have to hide?" Nothing right now, but if I did have something to hide (Like say a wedding taking place on my property, or a raucous bachelor party) I damn sure would not want pictures showing up on Face Book, or in the Sunday News. However, since the history of "regulation" is laughable, and it is usually just a way for me to pay more taxes for nothing, I think I might risk a couple of shotgun shells and just say "fly 'em if you got 'em" :grin:
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Fly em, I don't care as long as you are flying around and not hovering looking at me or mine, hover very long and I will take it down. Most of them flying are just people playing with them and they are not snooping but when they come over/in/around your property then they are snooping and taken down.
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This will be my last comment on this subject
after reading everyone's comments it looks to me like this. They seem to me to be like jet skis, it only takes one or two to make the whole of them look really bad. 90% of these will be used for fun and play! it's that other 10% that's going to take them all down.
use your commonsense and all will be fine ...... Hover over my house or boat and you will be looking for your toy.
after reading everyone's comments it looks to me like this. They seem to me to be like jet skis, it only takes one or two to make the whole of them look really bad. 90% of these will be used for fun and play! it's that other 10% that's going to take them all down.
use your commonsense and all will be fine ...... Hover over my house or boat and you will be looking for your toy.
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So in our discussion we have learned we ARE over regulated. We need to repeal the regs that prohibit shooting down drones or jamming their frequencies. In the absence of that then they should be regulated to keep them away from private citizens engaged in personal activity.
Any regulation should exempt any use on the users private property, should control use in public areas, and stop use on others private property.
I have no concern based on the word "drone" or media hype of the word. What I am concerned with is our rapidly disappearing privacy and freedom of surveillance, whether by the government or fellow citizens.
MM
Any regulation should exempt any use on the users private property, should control use in public areas, and stop use on others private property.
I have no concern based on the word "drone" or media hype of the word. What I am concerned with is our rapidly disappearing privacy and freedom of surveillance, whether by the government or fellow citizens.
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Ok you win. Now I am going to go play with my toys and have fun. Relax and don't worry.
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