Drone Hobbyists Angered by Congress Ending the Aerial Wild West

Re:Drone Hobbyists Angered by Congress Ending the Aerial Wil... by nraynaud on Thursday September 27, 2018 @05:21PM (#18088805)

It was already illegal, there is no need to make it more illegal.

What would be important is forbid passengers planes from flying lower than 500ft.

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Re:Drone Hobbyists Angered by Congress Ending the Aerial Wil... by dmitrygr on Thursday September 27, 2018 @05:35PM (#18088967)

  > What would be important is forbid passengers
  > planes from flying lower than 500ft.

so how do you propose they land?

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Re:Drone Hobbyists Angered by Congress Ending the Aerial Wil... by zeropoint46 on Thursday September 27, 2018 @07:03PM (#18089643)

well outside of the environment obviously

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Re:Drone Hobbyists Angered by Congress Ending the Aerial Wil... by Intermernet on Friday September 28, 2018 @07:11AM (#18092451)

Can't land. Front fell off.

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Re:Drone Hobbyists Angered by Congress Ending the Aerial Wil... by nraynaud on Thursday September 27, 2018 @09:23PM (#18090296)

in the zones that have been conspicuously forbidden to the drones.

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Re:Drone Hobbyists Angered by Congress Ending the Aerial Wil... by wbl on Friday September 28, 2018 @04:30AM (#18091827)

Like a port? For airplanes?

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Re:Drone Hobbyists Angered by Congress Ending the Aerial Wil... by nraynaud on Friday September 28, 2018 @01:03PM (#18094965)

yeah, locally we call it a sky harbor, but the area is a little bit "special".

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Re:Drone Hobbyists Angered by Congress Ending the Aerial Wil... by taneq on Thursday September 27, 2018 @11:26PM (#18090780)

Isn't there already a floor on general aviation operations (over most areas, barring crop-dusting and things)?

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