Aerial drone overhead while fishing?

[buzzed bait]

just found the solution to the drone problem.... well actually 2 different solutions, one just as cool as the other!

http://www.popsci.com/skywall-is-an-anti-drone-net-bazooka

http://www.popularmechanics.com/flight/drones/a18942/michigan-tech-drone-mounted-net-cannon/

 

[Loochy88]

I know a few guys who fly drones and even have one myself.  I don't follow anyone around with mine, and most guys I know don't either.  Most hobbyists are mainly out exploring and enjoying their hobby.  A boat with a fisherman is probably nothing more than an interesting point to focus on momentarily.  If they're respecting your space, I don't see the big deal.  Id say if they're not crowding you to the point of being a danger, no real need to try to cast it out of the sky.

[Choporoz]

I disagree. 

Lose the noise, and the surveillance capability and maybe we'll be a little closer to agreement.  You don't have to be physical danger to my person to be invasive, not to mention rude and offensive.

[Loochy88]

I'm sure someone finds your shotgun loud and offensive too.  Not me - I love to shoot... but I'm just saying.   I guess my point is that if someone's bothering you with noise or crowding your space, there's a better way to deal than slinging your jig at it or blasting it with you shotgun.  Can't we all just get along?

[soflabasser]

21 hours ago, slonezp said:

A misplaced cast with a 1/2oz jig and braid would take care of it 

lol

[Avalonjohn44]

If it comes closer to me than 25 feet and stays for the length of time it takes to annoy me (more than a minute), I will catch that thing and sell it on ebay.

[Neil McCauley]

Solution:



I don't think it's really a "privacy" issue, more about the limits of property and ownership of airspace. Not sure your drone has any more right to the space it occupies than does the rock I throw at it.

[F14A-B]

On 5/31/2016 at 9:22 AM, Choporoz said:

I don't like 'em.  Not just on the lake, but anywhere, really.  We've got a couple in the neighborhood where I live and if it was a little more rural, I'd be standing by with a 12 gauge.  

Yep..this very scenario happened in Louisville a couple years ago. Man who owned his home and yard blew a drone out of his back yard. Apparently, the drone was watching his wife and grandchildren sunbathing. It went to court.

Homeowner/12 gauge shotgunner was acquitted of damages..Homeowner 1 Drone 0

[S. Sass]

9 hours ago, Choporoz said:

I disagree. 

Lose the noise, and the surveillance capability and maybe we'll be a little closer to agreement.  You don't have to be physical danger to my person to be invasive, not to mention rude and offensive.

I agree there is the entire lake to find, "an interesting point to focus on momentarily" besides bringing a buzzing video camera into a space anonymously without asking that a person if they minded the intrusion. 

9 hours ago, Loochy88 said:

I'm sure someone finds your shotgun loud and offensive too.  Not me - I love to shoot... but I'm just saying.   I guess my point is that if someone's bothering you with noise or crowding your space, there's a better way to deal than slinging your jig at it or blasting it with you shotgun.  Can't we all just get along?

No one brought a shotgun to where the drone was. Remember the drone made the first move. Intruding with no care for how the person on the receiving end felt and the drone did it anonymously. So how was it that the intruder should be contacted and asked to leave them alone?  If you want respect first show some by A. either asking in person politely if its a problem BEFORE intruding on someones nature time or B. Don't go there, go find your own place to fly where others are not. 

4 hours ago, Avalonjohn44 said:

If it comes closer to me than 25 feet and stays for the length of time it takes to annoy me (more than a minute), 

Exactly if its passing through and keeps moving and doesn't return fine. But to stop while someone is trying to fish and enjoy the peace and quiet or what ever it is that they are doing....  The owner should have thought about asking in person if I mind maybe a different outcome. Just remember I didn't intrude on you drone guy, you came to intruded on me.  

There is a whole freaking lake to find a "interesting point to focus on momentarily".

[Loochy88]

FWIW, here are the FAAs guidelines in general drone operations.   https://www.faa.gov/uas/model_aircraft/

Obviously further regulation will apply over private property, park land, etc...  

Note that regulation states that the operator should maintain visual contact with the drone, so you should be able to track down the individual buzzing your airspace.  If you can't well then that's rule one that they're breaking.

 Also, they should not be flying "near" anyone.  Open to interpretation what near means, but when I fly I basically head in the opposite direction of anyone I see out and about.  I tend to fly most often on private property anyhow so it's not usually an issue I run into.

I think it all comes down to mutual respect more than anything else.  I still think most drone operators tend to follow the rules and give others their space...  but like all hobbies we have our bad apples.