Recent content by hank970

Yep. Fifteen degrees of rotation per hour. Probably not a good idea to call the police and complain that stars are flying across the skies above your property on clear nights.

I was a bit concerned that energy fields might interfere with the controls, but I had no problems positioning the drone.

I briefly contemplated climbing the tower, swinging hand over hand down the insulator covered "V" like a Gibbon monkey, tight-rope walking away from the tower on the transmission line at bottom center, and then balancing on the wire while tripping the shutter. But then I thought, "Naw, I'll...

If you're able to fly near the falls, be aware that there's always a lot of heavy mist in the air. Everything near viewpoints is perpetually wet -- pathways and pavements, planters, railings, etc. A sightseer can get drenched just viewing the falls from an overlook far above the river. I...

If that were true, then, unless a drone operator owned a substantial acreage or lived in close proximity to the vast public domain, he or she might as well hang it up. I'd wager that most of us who launch from home routinely fly over our neighbors' properties and don't give it a second...

That's not correct. Defendants are entitled to a presumption of innocence. In this instance, the burden wouldn't be on the drone pilot to defend his conduct. Rather, the burden would be on the plaintiff to prove that the intent of the drone operation was to surveil his person or property...

Yep, here's the applicable section of NC law: 15A-300.1 Restrictions on use of UAS General Prohibitions. – No person, entity, or State agency shall use an unmanned aircraft system to do any of the following: Conduct surveillance of: A person or a dwelling occupied by a person and that...

Absent overt intrusions or violations such as using a drone to peer into someone's windows or to harass livestock or wildlife, I doubt that the FAA cares whether someone flies a drone over another person's property. Further, neither the State of North Carolina nor any other state or county...

First to weaponize drones will be Walmart and Amazon, each perfecting the accidental jettisoning of parcels from aloft onto lawns, roofs, automobiles, flower gardens, swimming pools, tree-tops, ourselves, and anything else that happens to be beneath their autonomous delivery drones when...

I don't worry about drones being used to spy on law-abiding citizens. There are already more practical technologies in widespread use which can surveil our daily activities and comings and goings -- the CCTVs in businesses and on street corners, and your neighbors' doorbell cameras among them...

Yeah, batting at mosquitoes. My jealous husband dragged me into trailer and is holding me and our baby hostage. He's barricaded the doors and closed all the blinds. Before grabbing me, he also shoved and punched a neighbor man with whom I had been exchanging pleasantries. The neighbor must...

I was a first responder for most of my career, both as a grunt and as a manager. I'm sure that dispatching a drone and having an eye in the sky might provide some useful information, but a machine hovering nearby isn't going to remedy an emergency situation. That requires impassioned human...

Nope, that was made in China. Same factory as the MAGA hats.

Tulsi Gabbard says that she'd personally like to know... Wouldn't you think, in her capacity as Director of National Intelligence, that she'd like to know officially?

I doubt that our government gives a hoot about the consumer drone market. When Hegpeth trotted out his little dog and pony show, his backups weren't civilian hobbyists and business folks who shoot real estate videos. We've been slumbering for a long time, and events in Ukraine have sounded a...