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No one should be able to fly a drone anywhere near an airport. If the law doesn't exist it should anyway. This also isn't the first time this has happened / bee
by eumoria 10y ago
No one should be able to fly a drone anywhere near an airport. If the law doesn't exist it should anyway. This also isn't the first time this has happened / been claimed to happen.
- cm3 10y agoMy objection is that the first explanation was that it's a drone. It's fear mongering, like accusing citizens from a specific settlement as likely perpetrators.
- sathackr 10y agoWhat if they have clearance from the airport and/or control tower?
- rorykoehler 10y agoWhat size drones are we talking about here?
- Ao7bei3s 10y agoWhatever the airport and/or tower cleared. As long as they know, what difference does it make?
- phicoh 10y agoThe problem I see in The Netherlands is that rules prohibit flying close the airports already for a very long time. People violate those rules. New regulation is introduced to make the rules more strict. It doesn't affect me personally at the moment, but many other types of model flying become very hard. And the people violating the rules, mostly don't know them anyhow, so keep violating the rules.
- lsaferite 10y agoLaws already exist around flying R/C aircraft. They already have ceiling limits. They already have airspace limits. I live in the US, but the UK has essentially the same laws. In the US they already have registration requirements. "Drones" are the new UFOs at this point.
- cm3 10y agoYou already may not, so there's no need for extra laws to cover that, but this will be used as an excuse to appease the public when pushing an inferior law that limits freedoms a little bit more.
- Cthulhu_ 10y agoI think the problem is that drones are very accessible for the general public, which isn't fully aware of all of the rules that the previous generation of RC aircraft hobbyists is all to aware of (e.g. in order to get a permit to fly with their club in a certain area)
- rorykoehler 10y agoIf you can't figure out on your own that flying drones near an airport is not a good idea then you probably shouldn't be allowed in public at all.
- calgoo 10y agoThen how to i get those great pictures of airplanes during takeoff??? /Sarcasm The issue is that then you have to limit the sale, and add licenses etc to control that. However, even that does not control the people who just don't care, or that don't know. You can tell stores around you not to sell to unlicensed people, but these drones are so easy to get over the internet that it would have to be blocked at a border level. And then you are basically outlawing the device, creating even more need to police / monitor.