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For the Love of Radio Controlled Aircraft in the US, New Rules Possible.
joeqsmith:
--- Quote from: Simon on March 03, 2020, 07:05:38 pm ---regulating to the extreme does not help with injuries. When people have no way in which to gain the skills required to do things safely the day they are faced with a situation they will just injure themselves or someone else as they have never been exposed to making such decisions.
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Maybe an outright ban is needed to curb the RC death rate. Think of the children!
tautech:
--- Quote from: james_s on March 03, 2020, 07:15:44 pm ---Something I've always wanted to try is skeet shooting with a shotgun, my friend did it once and said it was great.
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Come visit, skeet and DTL range here.
Can be addictive as I found in my teens but it's one of those hobbies you can still remain competitive well into later life.
LaserSteve:
This gets real interesting, real fast. DJI published an analysis of who was on the 75 member invited "Industry Advisory Committee". Mostly telecom providers in the form of big cellular companies and law enforcement. Users and manufacturers were woefully under-represented.
So the published pipe dream is that some service provider would 1. Charge public users only 5 USD per month, 2. Feed all this flight data down a pipeline (or two) to FAA and probably other agencies for free, 3. Retain the
data for six months, and yet have the level of customer service to make the drone delivery companies happy.
So either some one is planning to spend in the government's black budget for what I'm going to call "Total Drone Awareness" or this was a pipedream of totally privatized art traffic control via the existing cell service, or I'm believing some one's preplanned spin on the project.
And yet all nine or so "invited" service providers would also have to co-operate and share the data, while hopefully providing a "freemium" service to some minor users, which means there would have to be advertising or something to users, or selling the data which was supposed to be open source.
Turns out, according to DJI, there is no budget for FAA to spend on establishing this system. FAA excluded ADS-B from the drone side of things which means either they don't want to overload ADS-B (Which is contractor operated) or clutter it with non safety of life traffic. But as I think of it, even at low level, it IS safety of life traffic.
I've never known a Telecoms company to NOT turn a profit, even the government owned monopolies, so think what you may.
Ouch... Again, Allegedly …. When I get time I'll publish the links to the docs I'm basing this post on.
Which really raises the question, of "Where is the real time collision avoidance and flight guidance Hardware" going to set? Is the reason why government and apparently part of the industry wants totally open source everything data so that the flight planning is done at each operator's headquarters? A version of what the airline industry wants to go to with no airways routes, so all flights are direct for shortest distance? Who/ What/ When/ Where negotiates what UAS has the right of way?
An even bigger question is how does a General Aviation aircraft or crop duster, or Ultralight or Medical Helo pilot "pop up" into the drone traffic from an uncontrolled airport? Right now in most uncontrolled airspace they just call blind on CTAF, a open traffic advisory frequency.
I can't help but to have a little fun with this:
"Press one for Espanol, Press two for English, Press three if your drone can't get permission to take off, Press four if a unwanted delivery drone is setting in your yard, Press five if your at the scene of a mid air collision or drone crash, Press Six to pay your Airspace Bill, your estimated wait time is Thirty Two Minutes" ATC support from an overseas call center is going to be a hoot, too...
Steve
LaserSteve:
So after posting that, I went to get ready for work, and the naughty child in me thought, "I should patent the new children's games, Block the Delivery Drone, Crash the Drone, Ride your bike into the landing drone, Brooms and sticks into props/thrusters, set your little sister under the drone, throw gravel at the drone, blind the drone camera with flashlights, swap delivery boxes when two drones land at once, etc."
Juvenile court just might become very interesting.. " All rise for the case of Timmy S. age 7, vs Amazon"
Then I thought, how will the drone avoid my car coming into the driveway?
How will the astronomers get drone free zones for telescopes.
Then it dawned on me, wait till the Home Owner's Associations get wind of this phenomena.
A painful thought is advertising drones flying down my street loaded with LEDs.
Is it really worth having drones screaming down with audible warnings going off at 2 AM?
I'm really wondering how well thought out this idea really is.
Steve
angrybird:
No better thought out than the massively increasing numbers of satellites ruining the view of the stars...
"Well, grandson, when I was younger, there were more stars visible than satellites! Oh how I miss those days" (as a coca cola advertisement flashes from space, right next to the big dipper)
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