UAV - Tresspass?

Hovering a helicopter over my head is not a safe practice.

I've done a bit of Search and Rescue work. I distinctly remember waiting under a hovering Huey for the winch line to come down. Very large and very green, it was to quote Douglas Adams "hanging in the air the same way bricks dont". It is not a place I would recommend being if at all avoidable...

I believe it becomes a different matter when you fly a remote controlled aircraft and you are doing it for money. You have to have FAA approval and those are area specific. That is why "Dark Wing" that Trimble recently bought cannot be flown in the US.

As for the folks spying on the Pigeon shoot I guess they flew to low. I was always told you own the airspace that you can reasonably control. Maybe a little redneck but if I can shoot it down I would say I can control that airspace. Providing what I am shooting is legal.

Texas Declares War on Robots.

"There's growing privacy concern over flying robots, or "drones". Organizations like the EFF and ACLU have been raising the alarm over increased government surveillance of US citizens. Legislators haven't been quick to respond to concerns of government spying on citizens. But Texas legislators are apparently quite concerned that private citizens operating hobby drones might spot environmental violations by businesses. You may recall the story from 2012 in which a hobbyist operating a small UAV over public land in Dallas, TX accidentally photographed a Dallas meat-packing plant illegally dumping pig blood into the Trinity river, resulting in an EPA indictment. Representative Lance Gooden has introduced HB912 to solve this "problem". But the badly worded bill could also outlaw most outdoor hobby and STEM robotics activities, stop university robotics research programs, endanger commercial robotics R&D, and end many common commercial uses of robots such as commercial aerial photography. What exactly does the bill outlaw?"