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UAV Hunting License Applications Mount
UAV Hunting License Applications Mount http://www.avweb.com/eletter/archive...9a:&st=ema il Colorado town that will vote in October on a controversial ordinance to issue hunting licenses to shoot down unmanned aircraft over the town has been flooded with applications already and prompted the town to put a whimsical spin on the plan. More than 1,000 people have sent Deer Trail Town Clerk Kim Oldfield $25 for the license, which, if legalized in a referendum by the 380 registered voters in the town of 600, would give them the right to bring down a UAV over the town. |
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One could treat this as a humorous hahaha story. But at $25 per license,
clearly people are taking it seriously and will want to exercise their new right to shoot at things zooming through the air. I doubt too many will take much care between a manned and un-manned airplane. Never-mind what the town is doing violates Federal law, the yahoos who have already sent in their money now feel they literally have a license to kill. The FAA should put a TFR around this entire town. -- Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. ~ John Kenneth Galbraith |
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UAV Hunting License Applications Mount
Dear Bug, Given my mounting disillusionment with the mental capacity of my fellow man, I'm inclined to agree that your fears are probably well founded. That said, I must confess my observation of the powerful UAV industry lobbies' attempts to force the FAA to integrate UAVs/UASs into the National Airspace System despite their inability to comply with the see-and-avoid regulation smacks of arrogant hubris indeed. This is just what the airline flying public needs, a blind aerial hazard exempt from FAA regulations. :-( The latest proposed immigration reform bill mandates the purchase of eighteen MQ-9 Reaper drones at $20-million each, not to mention the cost of operating them with multi-man crews, satellite communications links, ground support trailers, ... It seems to me, that we could put a lot of airmen to work flying boarder patrol for a lot less expense and less impact on safety. Additionally, a Texas professor has publicly demonstrated recently how a drone can be commandeered, and "piloted" by anyone with a small radio transmitter capable of overriding weak satellite based GPS signals, and spoofing a bogus location. Think terrorists who don't need to die for the cause... In any event, drones are a big issue, that needs some light shed on it pronto, IMNSHO. Best regards, Larry On Mon, 09 Sep 2013 09:09:44 -0700, Bug Dout wrote: One could treat this as a humorous hahaha story. But at $25 per license, clearly people are taking it seriously and will want to exercise their new right to shoot at things zooming through the air. I doubt too many will take much care between a manned and un-manned airplane. Never-mind what the town is doing violates Federal law, the yahoos who have already sent in their money now feel they literally have a license to kill. The FAA should put a TFR around this entire town. |
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UAV Hunting License Applications Mount
On 10/09/13 03:17, Larry Dighera wrote:
UAV Hunting License Applications Mount http://www.avweb.com/eletter/archive...9a:&st=ema il Colorado town that will vote in October on a controversial ordinance to issue hunting licenses to shoot down unmanned aircraft over the town has been flooded with applications already and prompted the town to put a whimsical spin on the plan. More than 1,000 people have sent Deer Trail Town Clerk Kim Oldfield $25 for the license, which, if legalized in a referendum by the 380 registered voters in the town of 600, would give them the right to bring down a UAV over the town. And the UAV's are going to come armed. There are a number of videos on the Net I suggest you watch |
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On 9/9/2013 10:17 AM, Larry Dighera wrote:
UAV Hunting License Applications Mount http://www.avweb.com/eletter/archive...9a:&st=ema il Colorado town that will vote in October on a controversial ordinance to issue hunting licenses to shoot down unmanned aircraft over the town has been flooded with applications already and prompted the town to put a whimsical spin on the plan. More than 1,000 people have sent Deer Trail Town Clerk Kim Oldfield $25 for the license, which, if legalized in a referendum by the 380 registered voters in the town of 600, would give them the right to bring down a UAV over the town. Can we hunt them from the air also? The government has no business spying on its own citizens with the UAVs, besides, they are a hazard to air navigation. I don't want anything in the air with me that doesn't also have a chance of dying if it collides with me. Just seems kind of fair, doesn't it? |
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