Another drone shooting. This is not going to go away.

[TheHobbyist]

I guess I don't understand how this works. I recall in my law classes that as a homeowner or landowner, you owned from infinity and beyond as far as the air above your home was concerned.

Much the way that if a neighbors tree is overhanging your property, by law you could cut the part down overhanging, although may not be neighborly.

 

[TheHobbyist]

I should note I am not a lawyer nor do I play one on TV.

 

[keith44spl]

I ain't ever hunted with Newt.
He's a lawman?
Is he bad about pepperin ya?

No worse that huntin with Chaney....



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[sgtsandman]

This drone thing is breaking new ground as they get more affordable for the average person.

Personally, if it flying so it can peek in to my windows to check out what's happening, it's gonna get taken out with a bat or something. Flying over head is one thing, playing "peeping tom" is another.

 

[Watchdog]

I guess I don't understand how this works.

Don't feel like the Lone Ranger. Judging by some of the comments, apparently lots of folks apparently don't.

I recall in my law classes that as a homeowner or landowner, you owned from infinity and beyond as far as the air above your home was concerned.

Well, if that's the case, maybe I'll go outside and take a few potshots at the International Space Station when it's overhead.

I wonder if this thread can get any sillier?

 

[RSBH44]

Too bad it's illegal to discharge a firearm in this county. But I'm pretty good with a slingshot.

I was expressing this very same sentiment to my wife just the other night when we were discussing what I would do.
I have, and am very good with, an old wrist rocket. I have several doz. steel ball bearings that should take down one of those Aerial peeping toms with no problems. I also have several nice hardwood baseball bats for when the prep's come looking for their toy.

 

[Louchia]

Doesn't a home owner have some Air Rights ?

 

[Nemo288]

Here is another solution:
Caught! Fisherman manages to reel in a drone flying high above San Diego pier  | Daily Mail Online
The title is a little misleading as he did not "reel it in".

 

[6thtexas]

No worse that huntin with Chaney....



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You mean Lon?

 

[keith44spl]

You mean Lon?

Nah, Dick.


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[6thtexas]

Ok-he's Cheney.

For a second I thought you were dissing either the old actor or one of my old barbers of years past.

 

[LostintheOzone]

I used to shoot starlings off of my neighbors roof with an RWS scoped air rifle. That's the ticket in town with firearms restrictions. The neighbor never knew what was going, she just told me lots of birds were dying in her yard.

If I can take a starling off of a roof at 100' I'm pretty sure I can take a drone out without much difficulty. .17 caliber, 1000' fps and silent. Even if you did hear it most people wouldn't know what it was.

DRT.

 

[Practical]

I don't understand why if pilots have to be licensed and the planes registered to operate aircraft and HAM Radio operators and even the GSM radios have to be registered to operate on the air waves the FAA does NOT require all drone operators to register with the federal government and if NOT flying their drones in approved airspaces have to go to a web site and register the location, and time/duration purpose of their flights?

It would be MUCH simpler to regulate and to prosecute misuse by simply requiring HAM Radio operator type licensing of drone pilots.

An Amateur Drone Association could be formed, it would administer tests including WRITTEN and FLIGHT demonstration tests.
Equiptment could be regulated by weight/capability and increasing tests and certifications including professional ones would apply for drone piloting.

IF pilots are collecting data and have sensors and cameras they would need to report it in the licensing requirements and if they fly outside test areas approved for use, they would have to file flight plans which include what data was collected for what purpose.

To keep them from selling data it would be a crime to use the data for business purpose without a business license and all data collected would have to be made publicly available. SINCE they are using a public resource the Air Space.

Our congress is intentionally doing a bad job to allow law enforcement and technology developers to run amuck and abuse drones to collect information they would normally need a warrant for and to allow the industry to develop unregulated.

 

[Road Rat]

Sure, a Google satellite image isn't real time. My point is (was) that if someone wants to "spy" on you, there's very little can be done about it. Don't think there aren't satellites or other forms of aerial surveillance that can't watch you in real time. A drone, for instance, hovering over your home at...oh, say 1500 feet or 2000 feet that can watch you when you're outside, and can see infrared images of you inside.

That's no doomsday paranoia on my part, either...just the facts.

I didn't know we were talking about 1500 to 2000 feet!! You are talking about a quarter of a mile. The article I read said the drone was looking under the neighbors back deck covering! That is wrong on any level you wish to push it! The drone becomes a target!

You sound like a person who may own a drone..................

Your turn..................

 

[Rastoff]

The drone owner is claiming his 'craft' never got below a hundred and ninety three feet (193 ft.)
And did not hovered.

If that is a true fact....Purty darn good scatter gun shooting.

Really? Shooting something at 64 yards is impressive shooting? Seems pretty normal to me. We hit things a lot smaller than the average quadcopter at that same distance every weekend.

A drone, for instance, hovering over your home at...oh, say 1500 feet or 2000 feet that can watch you when you're outside, and can see infrared images of you inside.

That's no doomsday paranoia on my part, either...just the facts.

Facts? You've been watching too much TV. An infrared camera cannot see inside your house.

They can't even see through glass:

 

[Stevens]

It is a chance to make some big money. Find a computer whiz kid, get him to design a Drone Jamming program, have a transmitter built and sell them, make millions. I can see the TV ads; a drone peeking in a girl's window, her Dad pulls out a device aims it at the drone it crashes breaking into bits, flash the ad to the drone operator, frustrated, dashes his controller to the ground and stomps away. Buy one get one free just pay separate S&H (enough to cover the cost of the second "free" Jammer)
You'll be able to buy all the guns you want!!
Steve W

 

[keith44spl]

Really? Shooting something at 64 yards is impressive shooting? Seems pretty normal to me. We hit things a lot smaller than the average quadcopter at that same distance every weekend.

Hell Yeah,
The guy was probably using an upland chocked shotgun, with dove loads.


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[HorizontalMike]

Hillview man arrested for shooting down drone; cites right to pr - WDRB 41 Louisville News

I think the authorities acted a little (ok, a lot) over zealously, but they really have no current legal guidance...

Well, from the very beginning of the news video, the first shots are from a large field/greenbelt behind this man's property. That greenbelt could very well be a perfect place to fly drones and possibly other radio-controlled model aircraft (handlaunch sailplanes, helicopters... just to name a couple).

Just as an earlier poster noted, I used to be a member of AMA and built and flew many RC sailplanes with wingspans anywhere from ~3ft to 14ft tip-to-tip. And yes, I could have easily landed in the pictured greenbelt area videoed by the news crew at the beginning of the story.

That said, the homeowner sounds like he may have an unshared longstanding dislike for folks using that greenbelt for hobby aircraft RIGHT BEHIND "his" property, on undeveloped land.

Just saying, it would NOT be the first time such a thing has happened.

 

[Watchdog]

You sound like a person who may own a drone...

And you sound like a person who makes baseless assumptions about people you don't even know and people you know absolutely nothing about.

 

[tops]

Well, from the very beginning of the news video, the first shots are from a large field/greenbelt behind this man's property. That greenbelt could very well be a perfect place to fly drones and possibly other radio-controlled model aircraft (handlaunch sailplanes, helicopters... just to name a couple).





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The large field/greenbelt behind my house is a perfect place for me (the owner that purchased and pays taxes) to grow hay. Just because there are not 4 houses to the acre does not mean it is open land for the public to use. Larry