Do you have a drone?

[Garandman]

I have the B4UFly app. We live just outside the 5 mile zone for the airport. (Some drones will not take off if they are within the 1.8 mile zone).

When I called the airport about who to call for permission to fly inside the 5 miles, they said, "We don't have anyone to answer the calls or give permission, we don't want to be in the drone-control business, we don't know what agency or agencies are responsible for enforcing the prohibition, we just don't want drones in our flight path." They were not very happy with the FAA. BTW they declined to answer by email, they called me with this info.

 

[riptides]

I have the B4UFly app. We live just outside the 5 mile zone for the airport. (Some drones will not take off if they are within the 1.8 mile zone).

When I called the airport about who to call for permission to fly inside the 5 miles, they said, "We don't have anyone to answer the calls or give permission, we don't want to be in the drone-control business, we don't know what agency or agencies are responsible for enforcing the prohibition, we just don't want drones in our flight path." They were not very happy with the FAA. BTW they declined to answer by email, they called me with this info.

I fly all sorts of equipment. The attitude of the airport is understandable but wrong on many counts. They are not helping the situation and some community outreach is in order.

FWIW, I live 1 mile out of a major exclusion zone for commercial ops, and 1/4 mile out from "dedicated" military live fire and flyby ops, with a private airpark within that 1/4 mile operations zone. We all get along fine, private "drone" owners included, and have done so through rules, regulations and community outreach.

 

[polo1665]

We have a DJI Phantom III Advanced. Used a label maker to put the FAA number and my name and phone #, though I seldom fly it anywhere except over my property or the ocean. Just love the change in perspective you can get, but my first use was to inspect the roof!

Makes perfect sense! Drive around with a cell phone that announces your location (and has been data-mined by NSA) , in a car with black box recorders and an EZPass that logs your presence. Under US government satellites that can read your license plate from 100 miles up, that also have IR, radar and other sensors. And government drones are flown over the US by a number of agencies.(The Federal Government's Domestic Drone-Surveillance Programs)

...And then worry about the invasion of privacy of a private drone with max flight time of 20 minutes, range of a few hundred yards, that makes noise and can't see or fly at night, in rain, or high winds.

I guess I should start shooting at any neighbors who own binoculars! I'd bet that 99% of the people who post comments like above have never once seen a drone.

You can't "unsee."

Seriously, if someone is worried about hobby drones they've got to ask themselves, "I know I'm paranoid, but am I paranoid enough?"

First of all, if you had read any of the other posts you would know that I have a drone. Secondly, I live in a rural community, 1/4 of a mile off the road, in the middle of the woods, with no other homes around. Come on and hover your drone above my backyard and tell me you've got some business being there (not saying that it would ever happen, I'm sure it wouldn't). As for harassing livestock, well I would think that would be a no-brainer.

At some point in your life you will realize that your situation is not the same as everyone else's. When you do, you can get off of your high horse and join the real world.

 

[Garandman]

//At some point in your life you will realize that your situation is not the same as everyone else's. When you do, you can get off of your high horse and join the real world.

I just went back and added some "Laughing" emoticons so that everyone would understand the "paranoid" saying is a 50 year old joke......

Turns out my BIL got a Phantom IV. Here's a pic of their farm he posted.

 

[caver]

I bought one (DJI Phantom) to take on vacation a few years ago. The novelty quickly wore off and it seemed like everyone had one. I figured they will be highly restricted in the future so i sold it and got most of my money back out of it. An impulse buy like my old dump truck that i soon regretted.

 

[r0bg]

I bought one (DJI Phantom) to take on vacation a few years ago. The novelty quickly wore off and it seemed like everyone had one. I figured they will be highly restricted in the future so i sold it and got most of my money back out of it. An impulse buy like my old dump truck that i soon regretted.

I love my drone. Used my P4 today to search for a lost bull. We knew he had to be in one of two adjacent ranches because of the fences we repaired and I was able to cover vast acreage very quickly. We found him, not with the drone, but we knew where we DIDN'T have to drive after flying.

 

[bdog]

I got one for Christmas in 2015 - over a year ago. I can't remember the brand but wife said it was over $1,000 and a very good one. I have not even taken it out of the box.

 

[lennyzx11]

I got one for Christmas in 2015 - over a year ago. I can't remember the brand but wife said it was over $1,000 and a very good one. I have not even taken it out of the box.

I'm the same way. Got the phantom 3 pro same xmas and flew it a few times. She got the mount for the camera (gopro) but I couldn't ever get the software to work right to set it all up. I've only flown it two/three times since I got it.

 

[Garandman]

I bought one (DJI Phantom) to take on vacation a few years ago. The novelty quickly wore off and it seemed like everyone had one. I figured they will be highly restricted in the future so i sold it and got most of my money back out of it. An impulse buy like my old dump truck that i soon regretted.

We've used ours to inspect roofs, chimney, map some old stone walls, check a sailboat mast, and a mooring field. We gave neighbors aerial shots of their houses for Christmas and a contractor pictures of the addition he built. Gave the previous owner of our NH place a shot of the house with Mt Sunapee in the background.

Priceless.

 

[riptides]

The thing with these new drones, there is NO pucker factor anymore. These things are designed to "fly" by computer.

Take me back to the old days with the cox engines, castor oil and fly by wire, or move up a notch the r/c aircraft of old and the micro-flights.

Heck, I don't even break a sweat now. No adrenaline rush.