Originally Posted by
mike1974
Maybe he broke an actual law in Australia. I'm not familiar with their rc laws.
LA is a local ordinance. I'm talking about federal laws that cover the entire country. I could fly as he did in the video without breaking any laws.
I will watch the video again when I get home. In CT right now with no WiFi access and have limited gigs available to stream video on my phone. I always have access to WiFi at home so don't need much.
It also does not change the fact that any government trying to ban a popular activity is never going to work. Instead they should work WITH the people instead of against. The US has had about 10 years to work with the fpv community. What did they come up with? The ridiculous FAA registration and that happened at the last minute because they dragged their feet for almost 10 years.
It does vary from country to country. This wasn't in Australia. You can fly like this here if you have a UAV licence with BVLOS approval. Otherwise it is line of sight only.
This video was in Austria (in Europe) where model aircraft are limited to 500 meters radius and line of sight. He is also flying in Controlled Airspace (Class E and D) in many of his other videos and I saw one was up to 7000 ft. If you read his comments, he knows he he is breaking the rules but keeps doing it anyway.
Do you condone drone pilots who do this? I don't.
Sure the pilots in LA were charged under a local Ordinance, but that it is still a law in the US and many similar ordinances exist. Then you have the areas where model aircraft flying is prohibited. (e.g. Disney TRAs, Washington SFRA, National Parks. etc)
If you fly model aircraft in these areas you are breaking the law and these are laws in the US. Don't you agree?