Posted on 06/25/2016 10:35:46 AM PDT by Pollard
Drone journalism is coming to a newspaper and TV station near you within 60 days.
New Federal Aviation Administration rules on the flying devices opens the door to newsrooms using drones to cover events, peer into buildings and capture images like never before, according to the founder of the Drone Journalism Lab at the University of Nebraska.
"In 60 days, drone journalism will be legally possible in any newsroom in the United States. That's not to say it will be easy, but it will be legally possible in ways that it has never been before," wrote Matt Waite.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
We need Craig’s Mom’s bush to save us all!
There have been some interesting anti-drone equipment that has become available recently. Employed from concealment will be the new SOP.
Also, the new, higher fence at the White Hut is to counter drones, not fence jumpers. If they are high enough to clear the new fence, they will be detected earlier, allowing them to be intercepted.
A 12ga. Remington or Winchester pump is might effective.
Someone needs to come up with an inexpensive “jammer” for the controls on these insidious invaders of privacy. Just shut them down and watch them fall out of the sky. Just pick them up off your property and sell them to the highest bidder.
Too much noise in the city. But a pneumatic “cannon” sounds like a car door slamming.
Under the final rule, the person actually flying a drone must be at least 16 years old and have a remote pilot certificate with a small UAS rating, or be directly supervised by someone with such a certificate. To qualify for a remote pilot certificate, an individual must either pass an initial aeronautical knowledge test at an FAA-approved knowledge testing center or have an existing non-student Part 61 pilot certificate. If qualifying under the latter provision, a pilot must have completed a flight review in the previous 24 months and must take a UAS online training course provided by the FAA. The TSA will conduct a security background check of all remote pilot applications prior to issuance of a certificate.
“Someone needs to come up with an inexpensive “jammer” for the controls on these insidious invaders of privacy. Just shut them down and watch them fall out of the sky. Just pick them up off your property and sell them to the highest bidder.”
If your checkbook will stand it, they are already available.
Word is there are several at or near 1600 Penn. Ave.
Until, since they will have sensors that will locate the source, the cops show up at your door.
I can just imagine the abuses this will be used for.
You’ll almost have to live inside constantly with your shades closed in order to have any privacy. And wait until they add infrared or other see through wall tech.
That’s cool. Do you know how much of a dent it will make in my already thin wallet?
And by regulating drones with no express constitutional authority to do so, the corrupt feds are once again unconstitutionally expanding their powers which James Madison and Thomas Jefferson had warned about in general.
”I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.” —James Madison, Speech at the Virginia Convention to ratify the Federal Constitution (1788-06-06)
”To take a single step beyond the boundaries thus specially drawn around the powers of Congress, is to take possession of a boundless field of power, no longer susceptible of any definition.” —Thomas Jefferson, Jefferson's Opinion on the Constitutionality of a National Bank : 1791
”The system of the General Government is to seize all doubtful ground. We must join in the scramble, or get nothing. Where first occupancy is to give right, he who lies still loses all.” —Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 1797.
Patriots need to wake up their state lawmakers and work with them to exercise 10th Amendment-protected state power to make laws which protect their privacy from drones.
radio control aircraft building has always been a huge part of the hobby. Buy a drone and you have to register it.
Drone dog fighting would be cool to watch.
Quality drones use GPS, and have ‘return home’ feature if x.xghz pilot radio is lost or bad. They could do waypoint nav, too.
I can see it now, drones will be come the new tool for terrorists. Then watch the gun grabbers go to work banning drones. It never ends!
“That’s cool. Do you know how much of a dent it will make in my already thin wallet?”
I have seen several available, entry level is $50,000. Being marketed to gov’t entities and police departments.
Ouch! That’s not a dent, that’s a crosscut shredder....
Hey, it is just tax money, costs the gov’t nothing.....
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