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RE: FAA under pressure to open skies to drones. - 6/10/2012 5:16 AM   
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Status: offline 		The NPRM has been delayed yet again, until October. In my own humble opinion, the thought of the FAA ever coming up with a rule, is pure hogwash. And now the AMA is setting up to accept FPV, which I fully support, along with the private ownership of UAV's. I don't want the government to trample on my RIGHT to own a drone, any more than I would want them to take away our guns. Yes, the FAA can come up with a "rule", but it's not gonna have teeth. I'll believe all this, when I see it.

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RE: FAA under pressure to open skies to drones. - 6/10/2012 5:51 AM   
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Status: offline 		Privacy concerns over this is like being concerned that the town will flood because your neighbor washed his car after a heavy rain. There are so many easier and more clandestine ways for government agencies to obtain private information about you than UAVs. The biggest reason for the push for UAV's is for smaller local law enforcment agencies to have a cheap available means of conducting surveillance (from locating a lost child in the woods to chasing down a murder suspect) and for private industry from agriculture to cell phone companies. Commercial operation of any vehicle or device has always been subject to greater oversight and stricter rules. When someone dies as the result an unfortunite accident while people trying to have fun it is a tragedy, but when someone dies as the result of an unfortunite accident while a business is trying to make money, thats unacceptable. In the latter case any agency that could, or should, have regulated the activity will be hung out to dry. We are our own worst enemy in all of this. We want our right to privacy yet when the meth lab next door blows up and takes out half the neiborhood we screem why didn't the cops know about it and close it down. We want to fly our planes when and where we want but when a child is killed by one we will screem why were they allowed to fly that plane, in that place, at that time, in that manner. The FAA is doing what it has to to appease everyone yet still maintain some semblance of control.

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RE: FAA under pressure to open skies to drones. - 6/10/2012 2:01 PM   
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but when someone dies as the result of an unfortunite accident while a business is trying to make money, thats unacceptable. In the latter case any agency that could, or should, have regulated the activity will be hung out to dry. We are our own worst enemy in all of this.


Good post but unfortunately accidents occur all the time in the pursuit of commercial interest... so unfortunately it is acceptable... the real question is how much risk are we willing to accept.

Yes, we are our own worst enemy in all of this.

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RE: FAA under pressure to open skies to drones. - 6/10/2012 9:36 PM   
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Status: offline 		My point was only that if in a commercial pursuit an accident happens and there are no rules regulating it then the general public will be outraged, however if there are rules in place, that were followed, then the general public is much more accepting that it was just a tragic accident.

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RE: FAA under pressure to open skies to drones. - 6/10/2012 9:42 PM   
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Status: offline 		What's funny to me is that Laws are always passed for the people but the people never seem to have gotten a say in it...

I am an ex Sheriff  deputy and I get a kick out of Laws being passed that can never truly be enforced by the agency. Cell phone while driving laws...Good luck with that. Kids not wearing a helmet when on a bike when under 14 years of age... Seriously? Do I have time to chase down a 14 year old when we don't have funding to enforce our Felonies?! The FAA can't even get their own investigations conducted currently. In Oregon I have a friend whos family member was killed by a drunk pilot. It hasn't been investigated yet and that was over a year ago!!

What I expect to happen...
The laws will be passed as they all are. Initially people will get spankins for it because it's new, until they realize what a pain it is to enforce and how much it will cost them to visit the flying field every day. The basic concept is simple; when it comes to government...make a law to protect THEM and they will ignore you for the most part unless you royally screw up and kill someone, then the media hype kicks in and the agency replies back with, "Well we have a law against that, lets get em!" And then they get involved. The FAA requires our group to get a COA for everything we have wanted to fly. That's their own rule but when I have asked for them I get local replies like, "who cares just don't do anything stupid..." Seriously, but you know I can fly then and as long as noone freaks out I may do that forever or one day get spanked, fined and lose my businesss for it. How can anyone gain investors or missions when it's in limbo or unclear. I have a hard time spending $40K on a plane with a "Hope" I can fly legally.

PS: worried about big brother? Google "Key hole" satalite in google. been around since Reagan and recently revamped with better technology. (Live video feeds via sat and able to track...Just like in the movie enemy of the state.) Don't be fooled, you are being watched covertly. Fear what you don't know about not the obvious monitoring...


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