Recent content by Dwilliams35

If they'll put forth actual taxpayer-funded resources to come arrest a guy flying 50' AGL on his own property, a half mile from any property line and ten miles from the closest grown-over airstrip, that really says a whole lot more about them than it does about me.

I'm seeing as just a waste of money for me, the way I see it I've got three criteria here: 1. something that is small enough for the drone to carry it successfully without sucking power to the point of making the drone useless. 2. something that is powerful enough to reach any receiver: that...

Guess I'm gonna be an outlaw.

I really don’t think LE driving it is in any way regarding additional new laws to enforce. It‘s simply an investigation tool: identify the user of a drone before the thing ever hits the ground. That’s pretty simple. And no, I don’t think LE is the primary force behind this, but I do believe...

. I’m guessing that was on the homeland security wishlist when they were assembling this: method and avenue for a kill switch. Once that link is in place, the rest is easy.

Yeah, that situational awareness has really been lacking out behind my house, 401’ away from me and 10’ AGL on my own land.... We’ve just got to have the government jump in and save our society from such a travesty.

I’m fully aware of that, but they’re going to have a hard time doing that without intruding into the 400’ airspace... a 500’ winch cable simply isn’t going to happen...

I guess we’ll just have to get used to packages being busted up from the 500’ fall, since they’ll never break that barrier.

Well, after taking a few months off from this forum and coming back to see what people were saying about this, all I can really think of it is how a bunch of folks that for years have been relentlessly advocating for more FAA regulation of the NAS...got exactly what they were asking for...

He’s trying to start a Business with it here... you can add a computer, software, possibly other batteries and other accessories, classes and licensure fees to get a 107 certification, etc. etc.etc... a free secondhand drone is just the beginning.

Getting a freebie drone would really just set you up for a heck of a lot of additional expenses...

I really have my doubts that the FAA will care one whit that you don’t have an internet connection. Worst case scenario from their perspective is just that they put you on the ground, which was the intent to begin with. People in big cities, such as those faceless bureaucrats in the FAA...

Guess it’s time to just shutdown all software updates entirely...

Well, you do have to consider that the oblique angle in a football stadium is a different thing than an oblique angle at a soccer field in a park. Use the same angle which was used in that video at a football stadium, and your drone is hanging directly over section 124, row 42, seats 1-4...

There’s been plenty of bombers killed by their own devices.. very few are intentional. What makes you think he wasn’t trying to get control of it, so as not to lose the “asset” entirely? Even if it was designed to go off on impact rather than a remote trigger, it could simply have been an...