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Pfft, they are late. My neighborhood is full of obnoxious drones flying around apartment buildings with no operators in sight and no one will do anything about
by shados 8y ago
Pfft, they are late. My neighborhood is full of obnoxious drones flying around apartment buildings with no operators in sight and no one will do anything about it, so they may as well have a waiver!
- jsight 8y agoSadly, the current rules around this tend to be ignored. The line of sight rule is one of the most sensible rules, IMO, so this is really unfortunate.
- myself248 8y agoThe operators may not be in YOUR line of sight, and still have line of sight to the craft. Do you have evidence that this is not the case?
- shados 8y agoIn one instance I watched the craft at low altitude go around several buildings in a way that it would have been literally impossible to draw a straight line to ANY point without going through one of the buildings. That's the only instance I'm 100% sure. In other instances me and several members of our community literally went around trying to find who the hell was operating some drones over their properties (because they were dangerously close to some fragile things), and no one could find them. So possibly had some line of sight, but were pretty darn sneaky.
- oh_sigh 8y agoOperators aren't necessarily stationary, and there isn't necessarily one operator either.
- shados 8y agoVery true, though they generally cannot easily walk through concrete and fences.
- oyashirochama 8y agoYou can't legally be moving and pilot a drone according to part 107 though if you're hobby flying it technically might be allowed but it's hard and not a novice thing too do since the RTH needs to be updated as does time left.
- scoot 8y agoThe majority of hobby UAVs that supports FPV are going to be (illegally) flown beyond LOS at some point, because the rules are almost impossible to enforce, and most operators don’t care. (It’s why I gave up the hobby when toy multi rotors hit the shelves.) But that isn’t what this article is about - this is the first commercial use waiver for a UAS over the 55lb weight limit.