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Menzies,
That's fine, but I'll wait til the dust settles. It ain't over, yet. Registration does no good for anyone except the govt. It will be challenged.
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If you've got a drone locked for being unregistered, it's good for you.
I find it interesting that with everything going in the world at this moment in time, that middle/older age men are stressing over a Drone catching them in their underwear while they are shaving with their shirts off. There will always be people on the fringe of any hobby that do dumb stuff.
As a full time liveaboard on the hook out here is my world - I try not to follow the goings on of the dirt dwellers or things I have no control over.
Its not necesarilly me I was concerned about
Give me your address and I'll send someone over with a camera and look at your wife and children through the bedroom/bathroom windows, who knows what state of undress they'll be in or what website they'll end up on.
But hey, nothing to worry about right?
When anchored out, I dont mind a drone circling my boat at a few hunred feet to get a few "public" looks and pics, but when it starts "staring at my vessel" close up or peering in windows, all bets are off for the life expectancy of that drone.
Its like being at a marina and the non boaters that lean over to your boat and start peering in windows. I ask them to move along as they wouldnt want me doing it at their house. That is just etiquette they dont understand and need to he educated on.
Sure I have drapes and blinds, but there are always some angles you dont expect snoopers to be able to see into unless you are under surveillance.
Are drones like binocs and telescopes, sure, but you have to know creeps will use them incorrectly, no different with drones.
We have both a mavic pro and a phantom 3. I would recommend both of them depending on your needs and budget.
Yup, made me look too. Just went in. Anyhow, I do everything I can to fly my mavic without being noticed or a nuisance. I actually think the new propellers have made a significant difference. Once I'm over 100 feet in the air, people really don't notice and unless really windy, you never hear it. I find drones to be best unseen.
I just flew over my parents place on Mt. Hood. As many years as we have been up there, I've never been able to visualize the valley and hillsides in the same way. Over the water, it's always another great perspective. The drone has made me much more interested in photography in general, now I'm shooting more stills at wide angle with a new Fuji camera. It's been a lot of fun. I need to learn to do more editing in final cut for view, but more time spent overhauling my wordpress blog to host better pictures and vids, seems never ending. Fun though. Wish I was better/quicker at maintaining those things. It's as much work as a job!
Good grief. I would strongly advise both your wife and daughter to either close the drapes or be in an appropriate state of dress if they can be seen through a window.
Maybe that is just common sense though.
As a full time liveaboard on the hook out here is my world - I try not to follow the goings on of the dirt dwellers or things I have no control over.
What's a "drone locked"?
Never heard of that.
If you google the term, you see hundreds of discussions about the locked drones. I believe it has to do with geo-fencing and software updates to prevent anonymous flights in restricted flight areas.
If you google the term, you see hundreds of discussions about the locked drones. I believe it has to do with geo-fencing and software updates to prevent anonymous flights in restricted flight areas.
As far as privacy I got the big picture plenty.....just like most things in life.....I cant do much about long range cameras or electronic hacking (sorta), but I CAN AND WILL do something about the drone violating my space (within reason of course as I posted, public land and not peering in at me).....
As far as 200 feet....I spent thousands of helicopter hours flying up and down waterways at less than 200 feet.
In this day and age, personal privacy is a just a distant memory from a simpler time.
If you use any electronic communication device, your location is being tracked and the content transmitted and received recorded (e.g. Google admitted to tracking phone locations even when you had the location services set to off, the police can ping your phone location at anytime and you can't do anything about it except by turning the phone completely off).
If you drive in any built up area, your location is likely tracked and recorded e.g so you pay your tolls electronically via a transponder or toll by plate, police licence plate readers).
If you walk the streets of a modern city, your location can be tracked and recorded (UK cities generally have the highest concentration of cameras for monitoring the public in the world).
If you walk the streets in most residential neighborhoods, your location can be tracked and recorded (by your neighbor's home security system)
Quite a lot of what happens in your house can be monitored via the internet (e.g. hacking the IP cameras in your home security system, or by the internet apps that let you see what your dog is doing).
Anywhere you go in your boat can be monitored and tracked.
Some of this occurs because people want their modern conveniences (like their phone telling them how to get to the closest McDonald's). A lot of it comes from the Patriot Act.
So people who get their knickers in a twist because somebody's multirotor device is near by and might or might not be looking in their direction and could be infringing on their privacy is missing the bigger picture.
Ghost,
What new props make it quieter? Thx.
Phantom Advanced