Drone view of the neighborhood from last weekend.

[ovrszd]

Hopefully the robbers aren't searching tractorbynet, and if they are they still have to get past the security system, three dogs, and the guns! Besides not much difference between that and everyone listing all their equipment in their signature lines.

Totally agree. Can't live your life believing the "fear mongers". Thanks for posting your video.

 

[MMfrompa]

I experienced Drones for the first time in Iraq in 2003.

I'm a supporter.

I also understand they come with personal responsibility.

But then so do Harley Davidson motorcycles with no mufflers.

Can't prove it, but I very possibly am alive today because of Drones.

Our FAA needs to get their "Head Out" and regulate these craft. They aren't going away.

Great videos guys. I looked real hard at a $1000 Drone recently. I flew a simulator in a store for about an hour. I got good enough that I wouldn't crash when trying a difficult procedure.

It will take time for people to get used to them, whats considered ok and whats not. Just like a guy in a park taking pictures, no big deal. Now a guy in a tree with a camera and a telephoto lens = creeper lol. I agree the FAA needs to figure it out. people on the ground want them to stay higher, planes in the air want them to stay lower. These drones get a lot of negative press, just like guns and i have them to. I don't like to be judged by others inappropriate actions. A friend of mine flew helicopters in the marines for 20 years then life flight for 24. he just retired and bought a drone lol. a felt pretty weird showing him how to fly mine lol. He said the news helicopters hate drones with a passion, even if they see the LED's flashing a half mile away and 1000' below them they report it. The reason? they know within a few years the news will have small drones to launch from their office to a scene to shoot live footage and come back for probably a 20k unit instead of a couple million dollar helicopter.
ps glad you made it back from Iraq

 

[buckeyefarmer]

I've been toying (pun intended) with the idea of getting one. Lots of cool video on youtube taken from them. These are just expensive toys, don't know why people fuss so much about them.

 

[ovrszd]

It will take time for people to get used to them, whats considered ok and whats not. Just like a guy in a park taking pictures, no big deal. Now a guy in a tree with a camera and a telephoto lens = creeper lol. I agree the FAA needs to figure it out. people on the ground want them to stay higher, planes in the air want them to stay lower. These drones get a lot of negative press, just like guns and i have them to. I don't like to be judged by others inappropriate actions. A friend of mine flew helicopters in the marines for 20 years then life flight for 24. he just retired and bought a drone lol. a felt pretty weird showing him how to fly mine lol. He said the news helicopters hate drones with a passion, even if they see the LED's flashing a half mile away and 1000' below them they report it. The reason? they know within a few years the news will have small drones to launch from their office to a scene to shoot live footage and come back for probably a 20k unit instead of a couple million dollar helicopter.
ps glad you made it back from Iraq

Thanks. Twice.

I agree. As typical with our government organizations, they tend to "react" rather than "act". They'll get if figured out, eventually.

I would pay little attention to a drone overhead until it's staring in my living room window. But I don't see the average user as someone that would do that. I'm sure when you are flying, you are aware of the possibility of invading someone's privacy.

I think some of the concern of airline pilots is the same thing you described about news helicopter pilots.

 

[ovrszd]

I've been toying (pun intended) with the idea of getting one. Lots of cool video on youtube taken from them. These are just expensive toys, don't know why people fuss so much about them.

I agree. I too am interested. My hesitation is based on spending, for example, $1000 for one today. Six months later I could buy the same one for $700........

 

[MossRoad]

Anyone see this on the news tonight?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX8cuGiQb4Y

PORTSMOUTH, R.I. -- Brother Joseph Byron, a Benedictine Monk who works at the Portsmouth Abbey School, thought he knew at least one place in the world where he could enjoy some piece and quiet.

Portsmouth Abbey's wind turbine is 175-feet tall and when the school installed it in 2006, Byron stood on top of the structure and watched the sunset, according to the school's website. He's maintained the equipment ever since.

 

[IslandTractor]

Anyone see this on the news tonight? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX8cuGiQb4Y PORTSMOUTH, R.I. -- Brother Joseph Byron, a Benedictine Monk who works at the Portsmouth Abbey School, thought he knew at least one place in the world where he could enjoy some piece and quiet. Portsmouth Abbey's wind turbine is 175-feet tall and when the school installed it in 2006, Byron stood on top of the structure and watched the sunset, according to the school's website. He's maintained the equipment ever since.

That windmill is in my line of sight as I type this. I saw the story this morning on the news. Pretty weird but rather entertaining at the same time.

 

[BoylermanCT]

I think part of the problem with drone's is the name. A drone is a Predator or Reaper flown by the US Air Force. What the rest of us fly are remote control quad copters. We've had remote control airplanes for 40 years, and remote control helicopters for 20 years. But everyone goes nuts when a "drone" flies near them. No one cared when a remote control airplane was nearby.

Nice video! Is it a GoPro camera mounted on it?

 

[roadhunter]

Interesting article.
Dispute Emerges Over Drone Shot Down By Kentucky Man : The Two-Way : NPR

A Kentucky homeowner is arrested for shooting down a civilian drone he said was invading his family's privacy. The drone's owner insists that he did nothing wrong, in the latest case that highlights both confusion and concerns over the legal use of drones.

William Meredith, 47, of Bullitt County, Ky., was arrested after he used his shotgun to bring down a drone that he said hovered above his property in Hillview, a suburb of Louisville.

"Sunday afternoon, the kids my girls were out on the back deck, and the neighbors were out in their yard," Meredith tells local TV news station WDRB. "And they come in and said, 'Dad, there's a drone out here, flying over everybody's yard.'"

Meredith grabbed his shotgun and went out to watch the drone, which he says was hovering over a neighbor's property.

"Within a minute or so, here it came," he said. "It was hovering overtop of my property, and I shot it out of the sky."

Police were called to the scene; Meredith now faces felony charges of wanton endangerment and criminal mischief, with a court date set for September.

The drone's owner, David Boggs, says the drone wasn't hovering low over anyone's property, showing flight tracking data to local media that indicates an altitude of more than 250 feet. And he says he wasn't trying to invade anyone's privacy.

"No. 1, I was having fun with my friends and family," Boggs tells WDRB, adding that he was trying out the drone he had only recently bought. He said he was trying to film the house of a friend who lives in the area but was visiting Las Vegas.

"Now the drone is getting a bad name because the Drone slayer made a bad decision and went skeet shooting in a neighborhood," Boggs told local WHAS Channel 11.

The drone-downing comes months after Oklahoma lawmakers considered a bill that would allow homeowners to shoot down a drone that's flying over their property. A Colorado town even debated issuing hunting licenses for drones, before the Federal Aviation Administration stepped in.

The Kentucky case is similar to one from last September, when a New Jersey man was arrested on charges of using a weapon unlawfully and criminal mischief. The man allegedly used a shotgun to blast a drone that was flying over his house.

Such cases have provoked a wide range of responses from those who want to protect the increased use of drones for personal and commercial use, and from those who are uncomfortable with HD camera-equipped aircraft buzzing around.

 

[Industrial Toys]

Very, very interesting. My first thought would be to grab the "Gauge" if such a thing was observing me, and yet if I had one, I would be interested in seeing what the neighbours were up to in a very general sense. Talk about double standards, I know!

Today on the news, they reported about a guy filming young women's behinds on the beach with a camera hidden in a backpack. He was convicted of mischief as opposed to voyerism, a much more serious charge.

We are going to have to re-write our laws and quickly to deal with this technological revolution.

My second line of defense would be to employ radio jamming at appropriate frequencies as they do for cell phone in theatres. I thought the guy with the gun would have been charged with discharging a gun within city limits or that sort of thing, not for blasting the thing out of the sky!