Eagles. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/01/dutch-netherlands-police-birds-unauthorized-drones
B > On 9 Mar 2016, at 18:02, John <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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. > > -- > Science - Questions we may never find answers for. > Religion - Answers we must never question. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
