Comment on Fuck the balloon police

Coreidan@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Ottomateeverything@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah, this. FAA does give a fuck. A lot of people fly drones extremely illegally but they’re too small for the FAA to notice or bother with, and most of them can’t get to real dangerous heights anyway. But try flying near an airport and you’ll find out real quick.

  I still haven’t figured out if people just aren’t aware that it’s illegal or if they’re just too brazen. I think it’s the former but not really sure.

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  • xX_fnord_Xx@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    So, my hilarious stunt with 40 quad-copters tethered to a lawn chair will go off without a hitch?

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    • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      40 red quad-copters floating in the summer sky

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      • xX_fnord_Xx@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Panic bells, it’s red alert!

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  • spfhaar@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    from me all the FPV pilots I know don’t have the license, because it’s very difficult to do because they are almost all the same things that a real airplane pilot needs to know,

    Also I have seen FPV 6S drones at maximum speed even in densely populated areas always exceeding the legal limit of 120m if they had a license

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    • Ottomateeverything@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      First of all, the “licensing” is kinda tough, but I wouldn’t call it “very difficult”. You could learn it all in a few days.

      Secondly, you don’t need the “license” unless you’re flying commercially. Flying as a hobby has like a page of material to read and like a 5 question test with a few rules to follow, so that’s far from an excuse.

      Thirdly, FPV has probably the hardest rules because you literally can’t see the sky so they require you have someone with you to call stuff to you… Which no one fucking does, so FPV is by far the worst offenders.

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      • spfhaar@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I’m not in the US, I don’t know how FAA operates. In my socially ridiculous country it’s called ENAC and the difficulty is similar to that of a car license in terms of the level of knowledge required, and it’s an infinite bureaucratic stress like everything, only those who do it for work do it. In my opinion it is seen as those who do graffiti, if it is done in isolated places no one cares.

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• blackn1ght@feddit.uk ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The FAA are an American organisation that only has jurisdiction in the USA, so no they won’t unless you do it in the USA.

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  • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Though that last paragraph does apply in many places outside the US. Sometimes it’s even the US military responding outside of the US (I mean I assume they protect the airspace around their bases, but I guess I’m not really sure what kind of jurisdiction they’d have just because they have a military base).

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