It’s crazy. You’ll be out in the middle of a desert and some nut will walk up saying your spying on them.
You hit the nail on the head with your comment about delivery drones. This is probably the single most genuine reason for increasing regulations - Why? The government, no matter which country you reside in, will eventually want to sell off air space below 400 feet just as they sell off parts of the electromagnetic spectrum to mobile phone service providers. It all comes down to money at the end of the day.I can tell you right now that I'm gonna pretty much hate all delivery drones, like Google's. Google’s Wing has landed the FAA’s first approval for drone delivery
I don't care to see this crap cluttering up the skies (or hear them) delivering other crap to members of our already too materialist society. I dunno, maybe it won't be as bad as I'm thinking it will be...
Yes I have no doubt that you’re spot on with that thought.You hit the nail on the head with your comment about delivery drones. This is probably the single most genuine reason for increasing regulations - Why? The government, no matter which country you reside in, will eventually want to sell off air space below 400 feet just as they sell off parts of the electromagnetic spectrum to mobile phone service providers. It all comes down to money at the end of the day.
You’ll never convince him... his perception was likely formed after several drinks with friends who imagined why people fly drones... chalk it up to ignorance and lay cards or something.It’s funny,I was having some friends over last weekend for lunch and the husband of our friend asked me if I was still flying my drone much and I said that indeed I would be once I have it registered under the new regulations in Canada. He stated quite plainly to me that the reason the feds have made new rules was purely because of privacy concerns. I was kinda surprised that he thought so actually.
I told him that from where I’m sitting, it has nothing to do with having to protect anyone’s privacy. It’s the perception of a privacy issue that causes uneducated citizens to think privacy was the reason for more regulation. What am I getting at? Well I’m getting at the point that people (the majority) don’t own quads,so many attribute abilities to these machines that the machines actually don’t have....like spying in neighbours windows silently at night. Media and especially government departments,do very little to get facts out there. If somebody was hovering their Mavic outside my window,close enough to get a picture of the inside of my house...while I was right there close enough to be photographed, I would KNOW it!
People who don’t know and don’t care to educate themselves about “drone” capabilities will make up their own narrative. In 2019, sadly for most of us,the PERCEPTION is the reality and once minds are made up it’s crazy how difficult it is to change them. I also mentioned to my friends husband that 3 cops were disciplined from a chopper unit in our province not that long ago, for using the FLIR capabilities of the choppers to peer into people’s bedrooms at night just for entertainment. Yeah,true story. My Mavic has nothing close to THAT capability.
Have you seen -I have a neighbor that hates my UAV’s. He has actually called the police on me and I have never crossed his property line and out of respect I don’t even point in his direction. He like all others wears a tin foil hat. We sat down for a talk the other night about other things and finally showed him the actual capabilities of the UAV and he understands them better now. Education is what the public needs. Everyone thinks we are flying a device that can zoom in on a gnat at 300000 feet
Don't tell me that your dronecamera can't look through the walls to watch whatever he wants to keep hidden.I have a neighbor that hates my UAV’s. He has actually called the police on me and I have never crossed his property line and out of respect I don’t even point in his direction. He like all others wears a tin foil hat. We sat down for a talk the other night about other things and finally showed him the actual capabilities of the UAV and he understands them better now. Education is what the public needs. Everyone thinks we are flying a device that can zoom in on a gnat at 300000 feet
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