This is the latest news out of New York City Concerning the Flying of Drones…

[tstr14]

As Ben Franklin said, ""Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, are making a wise compromise."

That is not what Franklin said. The quote is: "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." Even if you stating it as a measure of sarcasm, someone reading without knowing the original quote might mistake it for the actual one.

 

[mavic3usa]

Doesn't sound like the America I remember.

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[Ms Ivy]

Gesh ridiculous, Gotta pay a fee to fly here , got to pay a fee to fly there , got to pay a fee because these darn city suck the fun out of everything by charging you to death, never mind even trying to get a permit that will take 3 months to get approved. I'm glad I kept my mini2 with the original Device and Fly app. Hmm does that make it a burner drone?

 

[LoudThunder]

got to pay a fee to fly there

I was desperately surprised that the projected budget for New York State in 2025 is over $250 Billion, that is a Quarter of a Trillion Dollars… The entire budget for the entire United States is only projected to be $7.5 Trillion and I know the farmers, the truck drivers, and Mom and Pop stores and so many more of the upstate folks are not benefitting from that. I grew up in the Adirondack Mountains and we never saw any of that kind of expenses, but we sure saw the taxation…

When I first started to follow the NYC Drone permit program, the applications was a non-refundable $150 fee, have the courts ruled that is unconsciencable cash grab?

 

[mavic3usa]

Now that Comrade Adams is out of the race, what are the odds the new mayor doesn't go along with Adams dream of a NYC drone utopia and either repeals all those ridiculous city rules and regulations or else defunds the program or let the Adams vision for a surveillance state just die. Might depend on the new NYPD leadership, too I guess we'll see.

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[LoudThunder]

Now that Comrade Adams is out of the race, what are the odds the new mayor doesn't go along with Adams dream of a NYC drone utopia and either repeals all those ridiculous city rules and regulations or else defunds the program or let the Adams vision for a surveillance state just die. Might depend on the new NYPD leadership, too I guess we'll see.

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I would not count on it, we can remain hopeful but when My grandfather was on a department head on the New York State Department of Transportation, and the decision to make only the southern end of the Thruway free, rather than spreading some of the niles with Albany, Syracuse, and Rochester, my grandfather railed against that decision… The Thruway was built with some Federal Tax Dollars and parts were required to be Freeway. To quiet my grandfather and others down, the promise was to immediate make the Thruway all Free as soon as the Bond was paid off. That was to be in 1996… It's still there… Money walks and Talks in NY and with a $150 cost per application to fly is too good to give up…