Have you seen a Drone Mob YET (except on TV) GET READY.

[Felix le Chat]

This would be perfectly legal and I am just wondering what the Media would do with it. OR what other Drone pilots think.
Here goes..

The news is full of Drone stories lately ( geee thanks anti drone people) NOW its just may get worse:
In our FPV group we have been talking about the up and coming "FAD" of a large group of Drone owners going out at night throwing on the firehouses and swarming an area with lights!!
A few of our gang have been asked by friends that are honestly organizing these things, some of them as sort of a protest of the bad media blitz on Drones! Now they ARE NOT talking about Going out to the air base and making a spectacle In fact they discourage it STRONGLY, BUT they do want to Swarm an area with lights flying legally. Have several members go to a few parks in an area at night and fly with lights blinkin away.
I myself think its a BAD idea simply because with Drones any press seems to be bad press these days. BUT I think its gonna become alot more popular now. So these sighting are gonna become a hot topic...... I fear.

Been reading through this and similar threads for a while now, mulling things over. The one thought that hit me from the 'off' and has remained at the front of my mind is an historic precedent concerning the media addicted American public, hysterical stupidity and panic... Orson Wells' radio adaptation of 'War Of The Worlds'.

 

[EssenYVR]

If people saw drones in the sky every day, eventually they'd stop worrying about them and find some other, ridiculous, thing to wad their panties.

If the goal is to inure the public to drones, the strategy most likely to succeed is the one that will happen naturally, where drones gradually become more and more common while most people don't really notice until one day they're everywhere.

Bombarding people with drones out of the blue seems to me like exactly the wrong move to accomplish that goal.

That having been said, I think this whole "swarm" thing has become really overblown. People hear about it in the media, and then when they see anything in the sky they assume it must be what everyone is talking about. And they're eager to share their story with anyone who'll listen: "I actually saw one!". Meanwhile the media, eager to get views, are out there canvassing people for more reports, like grist for the mill, which then spurs even more people to be on the lookout for something. This kind of thing takes on a life of it's own that's quickly divorced from reality.

 

[eEridani]

Pretty sure that if 100 drone operators convened to jointly fly a swarm of drones over some spot the LEO will find a way to make it illegal according to their interpretation of the laws on the books. That generally leads to expensive legal bills after the fact if you actually fight the charges, if any. The right to assembly is not golden.

That said, if there was a permit given, I'd participate, too.

 

[hank970]

Pretty sure that if 100 drone operators convened to jointly fly a swarm of drones over some spot the LEO will find a way to make it illegal according to their interpretation of the laws on the books. That generally leads to expensive legal bills after the fact if you actually fight the charges, if any. The right to assembly is not golden.

That said, if there was a permit given, I'd participate, too.

I'm pretty sure that, if 100 drone operators convened to fly a swarm of drones over one spot, some of their crafts would collide and crash. Since some drone operators seem averse to any form of regimentation, it would take a remarkable amount of good will and coordination to pull something like that off without mishaps. Count me in as a spectator.

 

[Cafguy]

Pretty sure that if 100 drone operators convened to jointly fly a swarm of drones over some spot the LEO will find a way to make it illegal according to their interpretation of the laws on the books. That generally leads to expensive legal bills after the fact if you actually fight the charges, if any. The right to assembly is not golden.

That said, if there was a permit given, I'd participate, too.

Correct and as pointed out to me by the police, any large gathering in a city park requires a permit,Just for the gathering! Never mind the Drones! So I suppose next time I plan a day at the park with friends, it wont be too many lol.