Posted on 06/22/2016 6:44:34 AM PDT by milton23
Cameras are not the only difference. What gives security folks the willies is dozens of drones can be computer linked to fly in “flocks” exactly like a large flock of birds.
One drone is an irritant, 24 of them moving as one can easily bring down any aircraft.
Search for demonstrations on youtube, this has been around for several years.
“We are going to need SOME type of drone regulation, one way or the other.”
What are you going to do when it’s an armed drone being used by the police?
“So all those RC aircraft operators that are self-regulated and responsible have to be banned even though they’ve been flying for 50-plus years.”
The RC guys are aviation enthusiasts. They played by the rules. They usually created small aerodromes just to fly their planes. There are a few outstanding aerodromes in Colorado, usually located near lakes like Chatfield and Cherry Creek.
The drone guys are usually nerds wanting to use cameras and play around with aerial surveillance.
There is a huge difference between the two groups; RC is respectful, drones are not.
Most of the issues with drones could be handled on a state or local level.
What if the armed drones are being used for Jihad?
Government drones snooping? More likely that drones will piloted by pervs peeking at residents’ backyard swimming pools.
They did have cameras.
See Post 14
I’ve been an RC plane enthusiasts for many years now. I’ve designed my own little unique jet powered plane and the build is about 75% complete. I will introduce it on FR when complete.
My take on it is the commercial sector has their sights on our bandwidth hence the registration scheme. You can bet us old school RC pilots have had our planes “shot down” by interference before. I see them stealing our bandwidth, to prevent accidents to their package delivery systems or whatever.
I was replying to a post (Post 11) that advocated completely outlawing all RC platforms.
The frequencies being engineered for delivery drones is well above RC/Drones. The real fuzz has been from pilots, myself included, where drones have been flying into airport airspaces. The RC guys have ben great all these years. Heck, few even know they exist. The drones guys have made a mess. Denver International had over 250 reported incidents of drones in approach paths last year alone. I fly out of Centennial, CO, and we’ve had a few drones buzzing around. Once it was a pilot flying a drone on the ramp! Idiot.
Breaking the new regulations by doing so.
Every new technology, or old in this case, has the potential for abuse or lawless action.
And Post 29.
RC has been just fine. Drones, not so much. The RC guys are faithful aviation practitioners in their own right. Many are licensed pilots of varying sorts. I’ve not heard a peep about RC guys violating airspaces or safety.
Drone incidents are just far too common. They have become daily occurrences at some airports. I had to abort a landing once because of a drone in the approach path. Nothing like getting the tower to instruct, “Climb for traffic!”
Thanks for the correction. I haven’t been keeping up with the latest. I got growing tomatoes on my mind at present, lol. The first time I saw these drones I knew they were going to create a headache for us RC plane guys.
Traditional RC aircraft require some skill to fly. That tends to filter out the knuckledraggers. Drones are far cheaper and practically fly themselves. Any idiot can pick one up and have it in the air in thirty minutes or less.
Once again the problem with regulation and registration is that it needs cooperation to work and those most likely to cause problems are the least likely to cooperate.
“The first time I saw these drones I knew they were going to create a headache for us RC plane guys.”
Same here. I just knew the RC guys would be lumped in with the irresponsible nerds flying drones.
“Once again the problem with regulation and registration is that it needs cooperation to work and those most likely to cause problems are the least likely to cooperate.”
Totally agree. Regulation won’t work for that very reason.
Easy to fly multi-gyro drones, with remote/concealed piloting capability, in the hands of immature and careless operators, with no advisement by experienced flyers, makes them very different than typical RC planes and their pilots.
Post 14
Yep, I read it. The dummies ruin everything.
We used to deal with dummies like that in a different manner decades ago. An effective manner. A very localized manner.
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