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Post by Grug - American Neanderthal on Oct 26, 2015 17:15:21 GMT -7
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Post by HiTemp on Oct 27, 2015 0:51:47 GMT -7
According to the article the FAA is taking the loophole in the law passed in 2013 that exempts model aircraft in order to regulate "anything that flies in federal airspace." How they will do this is an unknown but it seems certain it will be some form of registration (which will be useless) and the assessment of civil fines if they find out who the violators are. Now they've already tagged one drone maker with a million plus in fines for unauthorized (whatever that means) flights over Chicago, so why do they need a new law if they can already do what they are claiming they need a law for?
This is just another in a series of some few, random idiots cause a lot of sensational headlines and get people all fired up thinking it's a crisis and has to be solved by this afternoon. And we can rest assured by making a federal bureaucracy hurry up with something, the law will not be worth the paper it's printed on and won't solve anything.
People's expectations are just too high nowadays. They really want a world with no idiots but that's never happened in history so to expect it now is just people living in a dream world feeling they have to do "something" even if the something is every bit as idiotic as the ones who caused the whole flap.
What is it Ron White says? Ya can't fix stupid!
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Post by Grug - American Neanderthal on Oct 27, 2015 5:48:30 GMT -7
Yeah, we register, even test and licence people to drive cars, and its still doesn't keep them from using them as weapons just as it did a couple days ago, it stops nothing. I doubt drones would be anymore harmful than bird strikes which is always a risk at the same elevation and many more millions of them to deal with. This is nothing more than progressive nanny statism, someone doesn't like something, so it must be regulated out of existence and only govt allowed to do it.
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Post by HiTemp on Oct 27, 2015 8:18:01 GMT -7
Notice every time a pilot reports seeing a drone in proximity to the aircraft it gets reported as "a near miss" or "drone nearly has mid-air with passenger jet?" Then down in paragraph 7 you find out one of the pilots saw the drone but it was so far away the only description they got was the drone's color. Something tells me part of that has to do with the pilots paying more attention to their impending landing than checking out the sights out the window.
Probably most of these cases are idiots joyriding the drone where they shouldn't be to begin with, in the approach path of an airport. In no case have I ever seen where the drone was moving in the same direction as if to fly formation with or get in very close to the jet. That's what is being portrayed here. What I'm reading is the drones were on a course that took them close by but on a different path than the planes. These things cost a bit of dough (the decent ones), and I'm not sure I'd be inclined to risk an investment like that just to capture the look of shock on the face of Capt. Jones, whatever Airline, while in flight.
Never let a good crisis go to waste.
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Post by HiTemp on Oct 27, 2015 21:08:19 GMT -7
Sent a PM to you Honcho. Been so long I can't even remember how the board lets you know you have one.
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Post by Grug - American Neanderthal on Oct 28, 2015 7:41:48 GMT -7
Heh, Yeah I saw that this morning.
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