documentary about drones and rules, Comments?

[Sitherus]

Just found this documentary about drones and rules. I wanna know what others think. I agree with having a set of rules about flying in range of a manned aircraft, but don't agree that those rules should apply to a drone not built to go above a height predetermined that would be significantly lower than any manned aircraft. For instance the drone they were talking about that would spray on a farm, It's operators/owners would need to be responsible for having the drone and a crop duster fly at the same time. I think that somewhere in a public park where we fly quad-copters should be a "flight law exempt" area as long as you stay in the bounds of the park. I would love to see more drones in businesses, but I fear its more because of the government not wanting us to fly over us airspace rather than the manned/unmanned aircraft focus. Then again I am just interpreting what i hear and see in the news and this documentary.

 

[GJH105775]

I'm seeing this as good coverage, and agree with most of what is said. They spoke with people who actually knew what they were speaking about, even if the narrator might not have.

Though I am certain their estimate is off for 2018 as we currently have WAY more.


The fishing line loophole is also no longer legal which is to be expected by this video being a couple years old.

I don't think the ACLU had any understanding of the real capabilities then nor do they now on privacy.

Nor do I think that they pose any risk to aircraft as long as they are not flown in the wrong airspace classes. Planes and gliders have been flying much higher than most quads could ever reach long before the media caught wind of our existence.


For quadcopters flying over fields I don't see how the FAA can even consider regulating them. THey are not over manned aircraft and if one falls the death of one cornstock is not going to be mourned very long.

 

[Sitherus]

in your opinion would you agree with me that this whole FAA thing has been over blown by the media?

 

[GJH105775]

in your opinion would you agree with me that this whole FAA thing has been over blown by the media?

Well yeah the media does not understand it enough to talk about it. Or rather that is what I'm seeing when people speak to me about these new rules and guidelines. I believe that the FAA overstepped their power by regulating hobby aircraft like this in what would seem to be a clear violation of section 336. On top of that they used the emergency rule making process to avoid some oversight and speed it up.

I believe that they misused this emergency rule making process that was meant for emergency safety concerns such as adding something to a preflight check for some airframe after that same airframe had a failure. Complacency does not equal an emergency, it is not as if christmas came out of nowhere. December 25th is a set date and foreseeable, so if by pushing something off until the last minute is to count as an emergency then what is to stop all of our other regulatory entities from doing so to avoid the same oversight?