What an attitude. The regs are clear enough to anyone not looking for a loophole. As "a responsible and considerate pilot and citizen" you should quit trying to push the envelope and find a place where you're not giving other folks a hard time.
Regarding airplanes, many park areas have established minimum altitudes that a plane can fly, specifically to address your noise concern. As for people having no issues having their photo taken, that's just made up speculation.
You miss my point entirely. I have no objection to a landowner restricting activities ON their property. The problem is that many owners and stewards consider the airspace OVER their property as being included in what they can restrict. This includes LEOs many of whom do not read the regs as narrowly as you do.
The key wording here is "within Anza-Borrego Desert State Park." there is nothing to stop you from launching and landing a few feet outside the park boundary and flying over the parks airspace as much as you want. This goes back to an earlier post I made when I said that I prefer to fly outside the view of other people whenever possible. Stealth piloting, as I like to call it, has worked very well for me personally and most of the time, folks on the ground don't even notice your drone in the air unless you fly real low to the ground.
"do not read the regs as narrowly" It's not a matter of how you read the regulations. They're clear. Parks, cities, and other entities cannot control the NAS that overlies their property. But they can control whether you operate a drone from the ground on their property. Yes, there are property managers and law officers who do not understand that, but they can be educated.
Yes, however, the sculptures are not in the park and the hills I described are near my house. 70 miles from Anza Borrego
The disturbance of the sculptures obviously! If you look closely you can see the fear in their eyes
poor beasts I’m guessing there won’t be any newborns this season! Hope your proud of yourself mister !
I do not believe in Facebook. I only send my videos to know people who like to see my stuff. If you send to the Facebook crowd, I assume they are mostly lefties who try to control your lives. Sort of like the Tweeters too who only accept their concept of ideas and censor the rest.
That I’ll agree on, because there were 2 likes, 0 dislikes, and 0 comments when I looked on YT.
As for aircraft, they are requested (not required) to maintain at least a 2000’ AGL altitude in those areas. In a noisy urban environment I can hear aircraft at much greater distance than 2000’ (not just altitude) that are much louder than my hex drone at 100’ AGL. My drone at 300’ AGL would likely not be noticed from the sound it emits, but a plane at 3000’ would not be able to be ignored. This is why I have a big issue with the disturbing solitude excuse.
My father told me when he was a boy (born 1938) that when a plane flew overhead, people would stop and look up at it.
It's funny, when I setup to fly from a roadside pullout or parking area where I fly in Tonto National Forest with my Mini 2, I set up a camp chair with an umbrella for shade on my screen & a bright orange landing pad. People who see me immediately look up to see if they can find the drone or approach me & ask where it is (I point & they can usually see it because I always fly with a strobe on, mostly to deter the local hawks). The funniest reaction I've had so far is a woman who cheered loudly when I brought my drone down on the landing pad!
It's a sad metric on our culture right now that you feel you must provide a disclaimer for simply being reasonable. Stating that we should find some way that everyone can get some of what they want.
