eckoner said:
So lets say i fly my Phantom into City Hall and hurt the mayor, he gets pissed and says no one can fly in the city of Los Angeles.
Ok so i live 3 mins away from LA borders. I go over to Culver City (Oh joy) But that will never happen.
No... no one cares about the mayor. ;-)
But you fly your Phantom over a park, and it loses power and crashes into a 6 year old kid... you better BELIEVE there will be a groundswell to shut all pilots down in that city, if not the county. Mothers are a force to be reckoned with... especially in local government. THAT'S a fact.
But let's pretend, like you did, that this happened in LA. And they inacted restrictions. You'd just take your copter to Culver City?? What if the subject you were really interested in shooting wasn't IN Culver City... but was in LA?? The restriction would start to affect you, right?
Like I said earlier... it depends on what you want to use your Phantom for.
eckoner said:
I can tell you this (IMO)
The Feds will never never never outright put a blanket ban on what we are doing and if you think so i got an iceberg for ya!
It will be left up to counties and individual organizations to rightfully so say yes you can or no you cannot fly that here.
To be honest with you i dont have a problem with that and i dont understand why anyone would.
I agree with you. I don't believe it will ever be a Federal issue (though it COULD be if some nut in Congress were to position a bill as if it's somehow a matter of "National security"... but that's pretty far-fetched). I never said the Feds would do anything. But enough local communities, cities and states start restricting drone pilots, you have nearly the same effect. While not officially a blanket ban, you won't be able to fly anywhere.
Why would anyone have a problem with that? You seriously can't see why? Like I said... what if I wanted/needed to shoot video in an area that has a ban? I'm SOL... unless I want to risk a fine... which I would not.
I guess the biggest problem I would have is knowing that the restrictions were likely the result of somebody else being stupid. It's like the idiots who dove off rocks near my house, not knowing what they were doing, until enough people got hurt that they now prohibit ANYONE from diving in that area. So even though I'd been diving there for decades, and know what I'm doing, I can't... as a direct result of the stupidity of others.
THAT'S how laws and regulations work. I don't know what world you're living in where you think it's any different. So... I guess I'll have to buy that iceberg.