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| james_s:
--- Quote from: angrybird on March 06, 2020, 01:47:20 am ---Read about the cellular tower vandalism occuring in some areas in the USA. This 5G thing has certain groups going off their rockers and it would appear that some are assuming that any cell tower is a 5G tower. Many of the rural areas that *do* have cell service are served by a single tower! These go down after thunderstorms, snow storms, when 5G vandals in foil hats strike... These FAA regulations are meaningless and only people in the cities are going to obey them, and even that is questionable given the amount of crime in every major city. Freaking out over news like this just isn't worth it, there are so many federal laws in the USA that every American is said to commit at least 3 serious crimes per day without even realizing it. Read the book, "3 felonies a day", this is modern reality :-DD --- End quote --- Do you seriously want a civil war over something so minor? I would bet that the result of such a catastrophe would be a lot of needless bloodshed with the ultimate result being those who started it being put in their place real quick and further alienated from the educated, affluent and highly populated coasts that already roll their eyes at the stereotypical ignorant hicks that the rest of the world envisions when they think of America. The clock is never getting set back to the past even though there are some aspects I think were better then than now and it's delusional to think otherwise. Vandalizing cell towers based on bizarre paranoia does nothing to help the cause I assure you and bolsters the stereotype of a bunch of backwoods ignorant boobs. It's not doing any favors for all the good and sensible people who live there, at least the ones who didn't flee to the coasts. The same idiots vandalizing cell towers are probably moaning about the lack of reception. Meanwhile the rest of the country which makes most of the money and props up the rest is becoming more happy to leave the other parts behind as they gleefully slide further into irrelevance. |
| angrybird:
James that is not my point. The point is that the American people have become so fed up with the federal level insanity that all of this regulation nonsense is totally ignored - That is the point! The regulation will be ignored. While it is likely true that half the country (or more!) is ready for war, I am not implying in any way that drone regulations will start it! I am just pointing out that federal regulations like this pushed themselves below the "noise floor" for most people quite some time ago. Are you an American? I'll bet you are committing a life in prison worth of federal crimes every day, and you don't even know it - Look up this book I referenced - It is absolutely true! I totally agree that vandalizing cell towers does nothing, but I don't think it is backwoods boobs doing it - I think it is these crazy fringe groups that also believe that they can sense "EMF" from power lines, that it is keeping them up at night, causing their insanity, etc - Literally the "tin foil hat" group. Look up "EMF blockers" on google - People buy into this stuff hook, line and sinker! |
| CatalinaWOW:
On a much calmer note, I am on the verge of abandoning RC model flying as a hobby. While I have loved it since I was in grade school, and actively participated for much of that time it doesn't seem to have any real future. I will miss it, but I am tired of fighting an uphill, apparently unwinnable battle. It is clear to me from the actions over the last decade that the professional operators in the airspace see model airplanes as hazard with no redeeming qualities, and will keep pressure on until it is eliminated. While some may blame these increases in regulation on crazy drone fliers, I believe that is only something that provided easy fodder, not the causative event. Utility inspectors, air ambulance services, police air vehicles and the like have plenty to think about without worrying about model airplane club locations, backyard flyers and the like. Not surprisingly they value their own lives highly, and unless they are participants in the hobby don't see any balancing value. |
| beanflying:
--- Quote from: angrybird on March 06, 2020, 02:12:32 am ---Ok you are still missing the point. People flying drones over their property and R/C aircraft in all the places they've been flying them since the advent of this hobby isn't going to kill anyone. It isn't a danger and never has been. I am not advocating for any danger here. If you fly your plan over my property when I'm flying my R/C helicopter over my property, that is your problem, not mine. .... --- End quote --- Your property as explained earlier in this thread ceases above the ground. Willfully ignoring for example the height limit (think it is still 300' in the USA?) places you into an area where full sized aviation happens. While this is exceedingly rare and the sky is huge relative to any full sized aircraft the rules are there for a reason. In Oz for MAAA based events off registered Airfields we can for example apply for a NOTAM for an increased height limit over an area for Glider events. This still doesn't mean we don't give way to full sized if one comes across our area just there is a warning issued and published at the Airfields in the area. We have had examples of dicks with both Drones and even well before that R/C planes flying in parks under the flightpaths of major airports. Regulations matter for everyone always everywhere. |
| james_s:
I intend to keep flying, however I might be pushed toward smaller and lighter planes that are exempt from the regulations. I've had a lot of fun flying micro stuff and now that brushless power is becoming more common in micros they are getting a lot better to deal with. Fortunately when most people hear the word "drone" they think multirotors, meanwhile I often carry cameras on fixed wing planes and nobody bats an eye. I also think the drone craze has been fading. For a while they were all the rage and constantly in the news but I don't remember the last time I read of a drone incident in the news and the millions of spying eyes in every suburban neighborhood that everyone was fretting about don't seem to have materialized. I hear people complaining about the ready to fly planes that enable anyone to participate but honestly we very much needed those. Without them RC flying was all but dead, current generations have a vast range of options for entertainment and I'm more than happy to see anyone new join the hobby. Without new blood and evolving technology the hobby will die and the places I fly will be replaced by housing developments. I started out flying foamies and have since built a pile of kit and scratchbuilt planes. Had my only option been painstakingly building a plane out of balsa sticks I likely never would have started. |
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