Recent content by chakalakasp

Indeed! I mean, this stuff is being reported on by like... a lot of trusted independent news sources. I'm not a radio engineer (though I know a couple), I'm guessing most people here aren't. That's where good journalism comes in, and this topic is extensively covered. I don't know what...

Yeah, I can see the FAA going over-conservative in their margins of safety. But, then again, that's partly why commercial planes in the United States basically don't crash any more and when they do it's an extremely remarkable thing, despite more than 5,000 commercial passenger flights a day in...

I mean... why is that hilarious to you? Do you know something that the top engineers of the largest aeronautics companies in the world don't know

This is why you decline to go to the interview at all, or force them to compel you and then do not say anything except that you’d like an attorney. That’s all free.

I think you might be a special case because your knowlege of the law surrounding drones is such that you probably exceed what a lot of actual lawyers know about it, at least the ones that don't specialize in aviation law. And someone like that, who is connected to people at the FAA and can talk...

Yeah, but that's the problem -- they don't care about what you know about the rules, they base their investigation on their understanding (or lack of understanding) of the rules. Given your experience, I've no doubt you could run circles around pretty much anyone outside of an actual...

If you're going to end up at the station with your lawyer talking to the police, why wouldn't you hire one preëmptively? I really don't understand that logic. Elsewise, what you seem to be suggesting is basically the fallacious thinking that many actual criminals have -- if I just go down the...

Yeah, you're just wrong. For one, it doesn't cost $15K to get a lawyer to sit in with you while you have a conversation with the police. It's not cheap, but again, calculate the cost to your finances and your life if you end up being charged because you foolishly admit to something that you...

For what it's worth (I am not a lawyer), in the United States if someone from law enforcement comes to your door and hands you a card that asks that you contact them regarding an investigation into something that they think you may have done wrong, here is the thing that almost every legal...

The FAA has no rules about filming private property, that is outside of their jurisdiction, which is related to keeping the airspace safe. It’s legal to film private property from a public place, with a few very specific exceptions. What you actually do with that footage may be restricted...

OK, then please take this constructive criticism in the spirit with which it's meant: when someone posts a link on a forum with the title "FAA LAANC GOOD NEWS" and doesn't elaborate at all, and the link goes to a Tweet and that tweet links to a video you have to watch, it is essentially click...

So, is this one of those forums where the official policy is if you don’t like or agree with something someone else posts you just shut up and move along? (Serious question; I’ve been using forums since before FIDONET and it’s always good to know when you run into one of those places that will...

Yeah. Clicked the link, laughed, closed the window. It's Twitter, not Youtube. Just fart out the information in under 240 characters. You can do it. Really.

I'm an Adobe dude through and through, but I've grown... weary of the monthly fee for using their suite. As a business cost they're reasonable, but stock photography income has been drying up for the past decade and it's harder for me to justify the entire suite any more. I'm thinking of...

So far nobody seems to be in court much at all for anything related to drones; there's all sorts of idiocy out there in YouTube land and it seems like people have to literally race commuter trains across major bridges and livestream themselves buzzing skyscrapers in downtown Boston at 1.5kft...