Drone deliveries and dogs

This is amazing.. Now we are flying over tens of acres spying on people "training" their dogs?

Really.... Nobody cares, but it's good to know that the public ignorance and mis-information on what defines a "drone" is alive and well. So apparently is paranoia

My issue is the surveillance. And intrusiveness into my personal space.
Legally, or not, I have an expectation of privacy on my personal property.
RC/model airplanes don't get flown over my back yard. And they don't have cameras.
I have nothing to hide, but the personal space thing is strong with me.
Any neighbor who gets a drone will have a friendly visit from me with a nice neighborly talk about personal space. If the drone is flying with a camera and I can access it, it's mine with no apology to my neighbor.
I think the law is against any of us that feel this way, but it's how I feel and what I will do, regardless.
We will be having discussions about legal uses of drones by law enforcement and it will be up to us to drive the laws that will determine the limits of drone use by LE. That will be a separate issue.
Domestic or business drones with surveillance capabilities? That's just like a nuisance pest (rat, raccoon, ...) being on my property. Trapped and dispatched if I'm quick enough.

My R/C helicopter has a GoPro on it.....just sayin...

Following this thread...if a pilot of a Cessna had engine trouble and did an emergency landing on some of these properties, they'd be shot or mangled by an animal....:S...makes me wonder what kind of "crops" these folks are growing......Dennis

Just what I need is someone flying a drone over our 25 acres while I am training my young dog to work sheep and he looses his cool chasing and then biting a sheep. I'll have to spend time explaining to animal control about using dogs to manage sheep, how we train them, and what can happen while training young dogs.

A little bit of paranoia around here? I have nothing to hide, if one lands in my yard just come and get it but you will have to clean the pee off of it. My dogs think they need to mark everything.

I live in town but if I lived out in the middle of nowhere and one dropped out of the sky I guess I would probably wonder about it and hang onto it until the owners showed up so they could be questioned about their intentions.

I have been told that I am to trusting.

So what people are saying is as long as video survalence is with a drone it is legal and the land owner has no rights to stop the intrusion. It's a bit different than a plane because of how high "toy" drones can legally fly over residences compared to planes. It's different than RC planes because of the likelihood of video cameras on drones.
I could just say the drone was harassing my livestock

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/2013/07/photographer_george_steinmetz_arrest_how_much_airspace_do_you_own.html

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2014/05/30/317074394/drone-wars-who-owns-the-air

Dog Folks wrote:

Flapper wrote:


As far as shooting them down - that's a no-no - you do not have rights to the air above your property. Not the same order, but legally would be in the same bucket as trying to shoot down a low flying plane (minus the attempted murder part). Gotta wait until it touches down, then you can get into the legal wrangling over "found" items.

Bang, Bang, Drone crashes in my yard. Sound of garbage pail opening and closing.

When owners arrives:"Drone? What Drone? Haven't seen one."

and you will find yourself in way more trouble than the pilot. The FAA will land on you with both feet.

As far as pets are concerned, the props on these things are no joke and could seriously injure or kill any domestic animal that thinks they are going to "play" with it. People that chase pets or let them play with these, even the small ones need a good punch.

That's the type of irresponsibility on both sides that's given these things a bad rap.

Flapper wrote:


As far as shooting them down - that's a no-no - you do not have rights to the air above your property. Not the same order, but legally would be in the same bucket as trying to shoot down a low flying plane (minus the attempted murder part). Gotta wait until it touches down, then you can get into the legal wrangling over "found" items.

Bang, Bang, Drone crashes in my yard. Sound of garbage pail opening and closing.

When owners arrives:"Drone? What Drone? Haven't seen one."

I've flown RC aircraft for many years. Our club had to institute a leash rule for dogs. Mine tend to ignore the activity (Australian Shepherds), but we've seen many a lab or similar run down the runway trying to grab a plane (helicopter/quadrocopter("drone")) from the air that was trying to land.

As far as shooting them down - that's a no-no - you do not have rights to the air above your property. Not the same order, but legally would be in the same bucket as trying to shoot down a low flying plane (minus the attempted murder part). Gotta wait until it touches down, then you can get into the legal wrangling over "found" items.

My dogs would think it was either an airborne toy, (Frisbee/ ball), or a slow moving bird. Either way-they would not understand that it's delivering a package from Amazon, (or wherever). It would not be a pretty outcome.