Can you shoot down a drone over your own yard? Maybe not

Hot Air.com ^ | January 14, 2016 | JAZZ SHAW

[elcid1970]

If that drone operator records a guy on the ground brandishing a shotgun, it could get iffy.

Legal precedents in sufficient number to establish settled law concerning drones & real property airspace don’t exist yet as such.

There may be a huge potential for R&D & marketing of undetectable ground to drone shootdown systems.

[Paladin2]

Drone blind.

[Montana_Sam]

Voice from loudspeaker in corner of yard says, "You have invaded my airspace. Depart NOW or you WILL be DESTROYED in three seconds. One...Two...BOOM"

Or, alternatively, build a little robot with a laser that can 'paint' the drone in a way that destroys the camera's receptors. If the drone is in my "airspace", it becomes blind toast.

[Paladin2]

All weather Interceptor Drones.

[Rebelbase]

~"The shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle; and on their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men. And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions. And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle. And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months.~~~

[envisio]

“Done blind”

hey, thats a good idea, Jack. Paint it camo, brush it with some cypress limbs... wait until the camera is facing away from you. “CUT EM”... he gone. Fetch up Coot.

[Rebelbase]

Mineral rights are more of a coal country, oil/gas country thing and are severed more predominantly out west than east coast

[zeugma]

Don't know exactly what the range is. Shot would be much safer to fire at drones. Coming down, they'd only be a danger if you were looking straight up because wind resistance really limits the shot's terminal velocity. Slugs would be ill-advised.

[Paladin2]

[Smokin' Joe]

If Exxon pumps oil next door to your house, very likely some of the oil will come from below your property. Exxon will not give you one thin dime for any oil they pump.

Actually, no. Not legally. If any Oil company is 'next' to your house, they have to comply with legal setbacks from lease lines and occupied buildings. If they are too close to your owned mineral acreage and they haven't leased those mineral rights from you, you have one heck of a court case.

There are rules. If an oil company is going to produce oil, they have to comply with those rules or they are subject to fines and civil action as well.

[Elsie]

http://www.gnatusa.com/

 

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/09/24/2126230/boeing-turning-old-f-16s-into-unmanned-drones

 

 

'Tis merely a matter of scale...

[Elsie]

If that drone operator records a guy on the ground brandishing a shotgun, it could get iffy.

Attack drones of your own!

Launch on detection of YOUR airspace being violated.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tqxzWdKKu8

[lentulusgracchus]

If Exxon pumps oil next door to your house, very likely some of the oil will come from below your property. Exxon will not give you one thin dime for any oil they pump.

Unless the mineral rights have been severed and they own them, you're right.

If the mineral rights are yours, you can "force-pool" (unitize) them and collect production payments (or actual production) and/or royalties.

[lentulusgracchus]

Erratum: “If” for “unless”.

[FreedomPoster]

Drone is really terrible nomenclature for what we are talking about here, since it conjures up visions of long-range semi-autonomous military aircraft like the Predator, with liquid fueled engines and carrying a Hellfire missile.

What we are really talking about are quadrotors (or sextrotors or octorotors) with LiPo battery packs. Most have relatively limited range (think fractions of a mile) due to the control link, limited endurance (a few minutes at most), and most require a fair amount of skill to fly effectively, requiring constant operator input. You have to spend some serious cash to get something where you can program a flight path, and doing that is non-trivial.

I was in a Best Buy recently and they had quite a selection, drop in if you’re nearby and take a look.

My son has been doing it recently, and he and his buddies fly at various parks in the area. They basically zip around an area about the size of a football field. They do some air racing with gates you fly through. It all looks very similar to the old gas engine R/C airplanes I’d watch people fly 40 years ago, only updated with modern electronics and with modern high-power battery packs instead of smelly, messy small liquid-fueled engines.

Are there some legal issues that should be sorted out? Certainly. But like most things our wonderful media reports on, there is more heat (for ratings/eyeballs) being generated than light. Don’t be sucked into the hype. It’s a pretty cool hobby that involves aeronautics, electronics, and battery power, that doesn’t need to be hamstrung uneccarily due to a bunch of Nervous Nancys who would give government yet more power to over regulate in this area.

[Elsie]

If THIS drone was over your lot; it would ALSO be over a bunch of your neighbor’s at the same time!

http://video.boeing.com/services/player/bcpid1173939806001?bckey=AQ~~%2cAAAAukPAlqE~%2coAVq1qtdRjwBrIkHYj2MSytJiEK9s5fy&bctid=1331877361001

[RandallFlagg]

I’m thinking that a skilled caster could target and snag a drone with a good rod and reel. The monofilament line would create havoc with its flight. Wouldn’t even need a hook.

[Darksheare]

One of those teardrop casting weights, a good flick and real it in.
Skyfishing, you just invented a new sport.