I know about the fines, but sue their pants off has a better ring to it.
I concede, I like your way better.
I know about the fines, but sue their pants off has a better ring to it.
BIRD STRIKE from 2009!
Thanks to Google image search:
https://www.birdstrikenews.com/2009/12/full-size-photos-from-show-low-bird.html
And posting that photo of a BIRD STRIKE as though it was a drone collision, is also irresponsible.
I have no idea of what speed a helicopter's rotor blades travel at, but I'm sure that any impact with any object would not be a good thing for either the helicopter or the object.
BIRD STRIKE from 2009!
"drone hysteria", when in doubt... it must be a drone!
When asked whether a drone could seriously damage an airliner, FAA spokesman Roland Herwig has declined to speculate. "There are so many variables. It depends on the circumstances. How fast is it going? How big is it? Is it coming at them or are they chasing it?"
I work for an agency that has almost completely banned UAVs. Whenever I contact someone for drone use I do two things. First, I ask about any background with r/c stuff, club membership etc., commercial photography using drones, anything like that. The answers to those questions determine whether they get a ticket and the UAV impounded, or if they get a warning and a lecture.
Then, no matter the outcome of the first set of questions, I inform them about the app that the FAA has developed called B4UFly. The app uses your location based off the gps location provided by your smartphone and provides basic information regarding the legality of a flight from that location. I wish that a card with information about the app was included with every hobby UAV sold.
I hope that things get straightened out out soon. As laws currently stand I'm not allowed to have even a Syma 107g that only flies inside (I live in government housing) as it violates agency policy, so I don't have one, or anything like it. Stupid? Yes. The law? Also yes.
So you roll around harassing otherwise law obiding folks doing something that is generally legal, safe, and sane(like rocketry) most places in the country and you base how hard you bone them based on some arbitrary questions and not the nature or actual danger of the activity?
Go you, doing all of that protecting and serving and all.
I work for an agency that has almost completely banned UAVs. Whenever I contact someone for drone use I do two things. First, I ask about any background with r/c stuff, club membership etc., commercial photography using drones, anything like that. The answers to those questions determine whether they get a ticket and the UAV impounded, or if they get a warning and a lecture.
Then, no matter the outcome of the first set of questions, I inform them about the app that the FAA has developed called B4UFly. The app uses your location based off the gps location provided by your smartphone and provides basic information regarding the legality of a flight from that location. I wish that a card with information about the app was included with every hobby UAV sold.
I hope that things get straightened out out soon. As laws currently stand I'm not allowed to have even a Syma 107g that only flies inside (I live in government housing) as it violates agency policy, so I don't have one, or anything like it. Stupid? Yes. The law? Also yes.
No FAA rules, but agency policy. It may be taking it to extremes, but I got rid of my Syma copters to set an example for my employees that the rules apply to all of us, and they fit the definition of a UAV.
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