On 3/9/2016 3:07 AM, Malcolm Smith wrote:
John wrote:
Plus he's doing a lot of drone photography.
I'm still not sure how I feel about drones. He's getting some great
photos - photos I aspire to take.
But, there's a lot of other drone users out there who are
irresponsible.
Great photography club, where you get this level of speaker.
I like the photos provided by drones, but regret not buying some months ago.
Due to the idiots which seem to use 90% of them locally, I'm expecting a ban
or strict restrictions to be imposed very soon on drone usage. All this
could have been sorted at point of sale, with dealers not selling to people
too stupid to use them safely. Having said that, I wouldn't have missed for
the world the reaction from the twerp who ditched his in a reservoir, which
I had the pleasure of watching late last year.
Malcolm
He showed a number of short videos of National Park, National Forest &
BLM lands that were taken using drones.
To the best of my knowledge, using a drone in National Parks requires
written permission from the park superintendent. His presentation didn't
include any information on how, if or when he acquired permission.
He did acknowledge the general FAA regulation that drones cannot be
operated beyond line of sight of the operator, but I couldn't determine
if that acknowledgement included a "wink, wink, nudge, nudge" or not.
My reservations regarding drones is entirely concerning irresponsible
operators. There have already been instances where careless operators
have injured bystanders on the ground. Luckily, no fatalities.
But, I think it's only a matter of time before some idiot flies one into
the path of a commercial aircraft & causes a crash.
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