Armed drone, homemade....
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FL/GA PLS., post: 360150, member: 379 wrote: Armed drone, homemade....
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You can have my flamethrower drone when you pry it from my cold dead fingers
James do you open or conceal carry your flame thrower?
lmbrls, post: 360182, member: 6823 wrote: James do you open or conceal carry your flame thrower?
Open carry all the way, it intimidates the sheeple (and the brisket & the ribs, etc)
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That guy is having too much fun. With 3D printing and being able to print circuitry, I just don't see how this is going to be stopped, just controlled.
Norm, it is probably already against the law (negligent discharge of a firearm).
They will have it under control when they can come up with a single law that a criminal will obey.
James Fleming, post: 360183, member: 136 wrote: Open carry all the way, it intimidates the sheeple (and the brisket & the ribs, etc)
I'm all about open carry BBQ tools. 😉
imaudigger, post: 360228, member: 7286 wrote: Norm, it is probably already against the law (negligent discharge of a firearm).
They will have it under control when they can come up with a single law that a criminal will obey.
I am sure it is, because it does look like a lot of fun, LOL. Outlaw quads with guns and only criminals will have quads with guns...
gschrock, post: 360166, member: 556 wrote: Oh yeah? Well I can still use bats....
That's hilarious..
In one incident the Carlsbad Army Airfield Auxiliary Air Base (32å¡15Û?39Û?N 104å¡13Û?45Û?W) near Carlsbad, New Mexico, was set on fire on May 15, 1943, when armed bats were accidentally released. The bats incinerated the test range and roosted under a fuel tank.
Norm Larson, post: 360235, member: 7899 wrote: I am sure it is, because it does look like a lot of fun, LOL. Outlaw quads with guns and only criminals will have quads with guns...
We all know anything that is fun or bad for you has got to be against the law.
We can't allow the irresponsible actions of a few knuckleheads to negatively impact the development of a burgeoning industry that represents a great opportunity for many (if not most or all) of us. Right now the rules, restrictions, and red tape imposed on commercial UAS operators are nothing short of draconian. It sounds like the permanent rules that are to be adopted (hopefully) later this year will ease some of that, but they don't seem to go far enough. Some things that need to change to make commercial UAS operation truly viable:
- The COA process. Right now it takes way too long; we need to be able to get a COA and fly a site in a time frame that will work for a client;
- The Beyond Line of Sight restrictions. We can't take off on hard ground and fly to a sight out in the marsh under the letter of the BLOS rule;
- The restriction on flying above non-participants;
- The need to get written permission to fly over someone's land. There needs to be a common sense rule regarding where a landowner's air rights end and the national airspace begins - I think a common sense number is 200'. It's ridiculous that I can't fly a 6.5 pound UAV that doesn't carry volatile fuel over land that any piloted craft can fly over with impunity. All things considered, I'd rather have said UAV hit my house than a Cessna or a 737. An aircraft like the SenseFly Ebee or Trimble UX5 needs an area almost three times the size of the area of interest in order to execute it's turns and get back on line; I shouldn't need to determine the ownership of that land and obtain written permissions as long as I'm at my operating AGL height, flying in accordance with my COA, and following all of the rules.
The point of this rant is that those of us who wish to utilize this technology in a responsible and rule abiding manner must work to 1) educate the public on what we're doing and why; and 2) lobby our representatives and the FAA to pass common-sense rules that remove the restrictions on operating UAS in a safe, responsible manner.
My $0.02, rant off.
Lee D, post: 360310, member: 7971 wrote: We can't allow the irresponsible actions of a few knuckleheads to negatively impact the development of a burgeoning industry that represents a great opportunity for many (if not most or all) of us. Right now the rules, restrictions, and red tape imposed on commercial UAS operators are nothing short of draconian. It sounds like the permanent rules that are to be adopted (hopefully) later this year will ease some of that, but they don't seem to go far enough. Some things that need to change to make commercial UAS operation truly viable:
- The COA process. Right now it takes way too long; we need to be able to get a COA and fly a site in a time frame that will work for a client;
- The Beyond Line of Sight restrictions. We can't take off on hard ground and fly to a sight out in the marsh under the letter of the BLOS rule;
- The restriction on flying above non-participants;
- The need to get written permission to fly over someone's land. There needs to be a common sense rule regarding where a landowner's air rights end and the national airspace begins - I think a common sense number is 200'. It's ridiculous that I can't fly a 6.5 pound UAV that doesn't carry volatile fuel over land that any piloted craft can fly over with impunity. All things considered, I'd rather have said UAV hit my house than a Cessna or a 737. An aircraft like the SenseFly Ebee or Trimble UX5 needs an area almost three times the size of the area of interest in order to execute it's turns and get back on line; I shouldn't need to determine the ownership of that land and obtain written permissions as long as I'm at my operating AGL height, flying in accordance with my COA, and following all of the rules.The point of this rant is that those of us who wish to utilize this technology in a responsible and rule abiding manner must work to 1) educate the public on what we're doing and why; and 2) lobby our representatives and the FAA to pass common-sense rules that remove the restrictions on operating UAS in a safe, responsible manner.
My $0.02, rant off.
Very good points Lee. I know a farmer that wished that hot air balloons would quit landing in his field.He recovered the damage to his crop by threatening civil action. FAA is continuing with the trend to generate regulations that totally remove common sense.
Lee D, post: 360310, member: 7971 wrote: We can't allow the irresponsible actions of a few knuckleheads to negatively impact the development of a burgeoning industry that represents a great opportunity for many (if not most or all) of us.
I think this is an issue in many aspects of living in modern society. You get a few knuckleheads (to put it nicely) that act irresponsibly and at some point, someone ends up getting hurt or killed. Then, because the media likes to make money (don't we all?), they will run the news of the "tragedy" as far, wide, and loudly as possible. This triggers an emotional (rather than intellectual) response from the general public who then cry out for "protection" from this "horrible menace". The Legislative Branch, in an effort to maintain their ability to get re-elected, will patch together some sort of law to appease the knee-jerk reaction from the very loud public. And in the end, the reasonable and legitimate use of things that would provide a benefit to society can't happen.
I guess there's my 3.5 cent rant as well!
I'd like a drone that could scan the ground for certain types of weeds, then swoop down and shoot some sort of small paintball of herbicide at it.
It needs to be fully autonomous and when the batteries get low, it lands on a solar charging pad and resumes work the following day.
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