[Ol' Dan Tucker]

Settle down, little Danny. I’m not addressing what that operator did because there are conflicting stories. Irrespectively, of what you think you know, you are only half right in your assertions of “rights”. The operator should not fly over people and the only building he is allowed to fly over is his client’s house below the height restrictions established by local laws.

Regardless of what you think your "rights" are, you fly your drone over my head or my house without permission and I'm bringing it down.

If this clown was flying his drone commercially without a AC/Section 333 exemption, or a SAC-EC, or a COA, then he's a danger to the community.

Flying for a hobby is one thing, but flying commercially is another matter entirely because the FAA controls commercial UAS, not the local laws.

Clowns like this guy are responsible for the loss of property during a brush fire recently in CA whose flight over the fire grounded the firefighting aircraft and for the near miss of two airliners over JFK.

[LittleBillyInfidel]

Totally 100% agree with you about the clown Pilots out there (making it hard for guys like me who try so hard to follow the laws), but you are wrong in the presumption that a commercial flyer is a “danger to the community without the 333 exemption” etc (the other stuff is another thread, entirely) - and that a hobbyist, by your logic is somehow unrelated to such safety restrictions. An ETHICAL Pilot flies safely and within Regs, irrespectively of WHY they’re flying. At least you’re using Google. Keep Googling, brother. It’s a fun and potentially productive new technology and I hope I can be a good example of it, too.