goverment working on how to take over quads in flight intersting read

[okieman98]

it looks like several agency's are working to be able to take over what they call drones in flight and fly them back to the owner, if they are flying in redistrict areas https://www.yahoo.com/tech/s/exclusi...050355777.html

[tlandauer]

I fly multiroters, specifically a four propeller ''quad copter'', I make a distinction between multiroter crafts and drones. The latter is really an UAV which in the consumer level means it has the ability to locate itself, with RTH (return home ) feature and sometimes way point, etc. It is used mostly as an aerial photo/video platform.
I am not going to discuss the popular FPV racing multicopters as that is more of a localized flight envelope when compared to the drones that are making the headlines everyday.
One may argue that I am flying a drone, but mine has no GPS, no gimbal mounted camera or a FPV set up, it is just for LOS (line of sight) sport flying, I don't fly more than 50 meters away from me at a height no more than 30 feet high. In this regard mine is strictly the same as a radio-controlled model air craft or helicopter.
I realize all this talk about drones have made people either scared of them or resent their operators. It is unfortunate that there is no attempt to make a difference between sport flyer such as myself and the people who use their drones extensively to take aerial pictures while relying on the GPS system on the drones.
It is too bad that so many irresponsible operators are sending these gadgets to the sky, and sky is the limit. There is much discussion on the RC Group Forum as well.
I said the other day the banning of drones will come sooner than the banning of hand guns in this country.
It is unthinkable that one of these should collide with an aircraft or gets sucked into the turbine or strike the rotors of a police/fire/air ambulance copter.
It is possible that in the near future the gov't will require for all the GPS enabled crafts to have an electronic signature so the owner can be tracked down (this may not fly well with the privacy advocates groups---pun intended) or as said be over ridden so it can be sent back. It seems the laws are behind the development of these crafts and only now that we are realizing the consequences of the popularization of these flying crafts.
Boats are much simpler, the only thing to worry is the magic smoke........

[ron1950]

Tim as a retired air traffic controller I can tell ya that the FAA has been trying to ban drones for at least 10 years maybe more...they are scared of em and tried to make anti drone rules for a long time..maybe the military is what keeps em ownest? but there are a lot of guys that wont follow any rules so hard to figure when they will get them taken away all together....

[tlandauer]

Ron, thanks for your input as an air traffic controller. I wasn't aware of that and to be perfectly honest : I wasn't paying much attention back then.
I just love anything that is radio-controlled, and as I said, due to the lack of spare time to fully enjoy flying model aircrafts, I find sport LOS flying a quadcopter is relaxing and enjoyable, most probably I will not go into FPV flying as I have to wear corrective lenses and my vision is just to screwed to use a goggle. I am not interested in aerial photography either. So in a nut shell, if the drones are ever banned, so be it. I am just up set with those who don't use their common senses and operate these drones irresponsibly. These people only think for themselves and they never consider what their action will bring to the rest of the people who actually follow the rules and would act responsibly.

[okieman98]

i agree i read all this stuff and wonder how long, but i do fly at my home. i have a large yard, but nobody has ever complained, i even had one guy ask if i had a cam on it because he wanted to look at the roof of his house. but like yall i don't own any with a cam on it. how ever i would love to have one that would do that just to take photos of wild life. i also use deer cams to. since i am retired flying help keep me busy when i am bored.i be leave at some point they will mandate some kinda software installed to let them control it before it was sold to the customer .