Maybe because they know that drones are legal, there are many of them, and they are no more a problem than identifying every car, truck, bus, motorcycle, scooter or person moving around.
I forget, somebody which has a license for a professional drone, would never risk his license and huge fine and don't think all would now start to break the rules and scare the public all of sudden. About radiation, we track radiation only with drones after a reaction already happened, otherwise the radiation is to low to track it on a high of 50yards, for that we have ABC vehicle!
@@maureencallahan1604 I was thinking more the Karen angle or the nervous Nancy. Not political, because lots of people require drones for businesses like real estate agents.
@@Cornish_Co nope. I choose not to buy into 'their' desires like you. No crying for me and I Am STAYING free in my mind AND body cuz none of it impacts me negatively. You expand what you focus on and what energy you send out returns to you in your reality. You're operating Universal Laws to your detriment cuz you're trained to. Switch that up with more insights into those Laws.
I don't fly drones. I fly rc model aircraft, strictly line of sight...and it takes skill to fly these.. I also design, build and 3d print my aircraft. And none of my planes will get off the ground or even stay in the air under 100Mph. They tried to shut us down in 2020...and we fought back.. I will NOT stop enjoying an rc hobby that's been around for over a 100 years...
noo.. we need to keep the hobby going, for the next generations, and for cultivation technological innovation. So many have started their learning in a lot of different fields, with the RC-hobby.
This definitely seems like a power and money grab. Drones are getting ready to go mainstream. They are going to be used for so many things. They are probably going to replace helicopters. The biggest problem is they want to use them war? The other big problem is the US doesn't manufacture anything? We are going to be let in the dust by rest of the world.
the real question is would you rather live free or live safe. the bigger issue is the same issue with firearms. laws only apply to law abiding people and entities. Foriegn nations wont obey our laws, even our own government breaks its laws. so the question is what is more important? False Safety or True Freedom
I see your point. Jail is a safe place, no one can break in, you have medical care, food, a roof over your head clothes to wear and good security, but no freedom. The problem is reaching a balance. True freedom will be no laws. Y0u can drive as fast as you like, where you like on whatever side of the road etc. Also not a good idea.
@@JJSmith1100 Really? What percentage of the humans in a jail are definite criminals? What percentage of the humans in suburbs are definite criminals? Choosing jail to try make a dubious point was poor option.
FAA has already regulated all of this through Remote ID. Even model airplane flyers, you know, those guys who fly Rc P-51 mustangs around in circles over a field?; even they got regulated. Can’t fly anything anywhere without remote id…The FAA just doesn’t have the man power to enforce it.
This is true and the feds won't authorize local authorities to police drone activity since airspace is controlled at a federal level. Unless we address this situation soon, bad actors will size the opportunity to fly drones under the cover of loads of drones that will act like a smoke screen. We may have to wait for a serious payload to be deployed and many people get injured or killed before something is done about this problem. We are sitting ducks.
Criminals and bad actors don't follow "rules". You can make all the rules you want, it's not going to change anything. And it seems like the people who want to make new "rules" can't be trusted.
Abject cynicism is both lazy and weak-willed, admitting defeat because a certain small percentage of people don't follow laws that the vast majority of others follow is WHY societies eventually fail.
This "article" did not complete the explanation of the current issue...which report are true, who's responsible for the objects, and why the lack of transparency??!! Yeah, this comment about laws is a bit overstated. We do need laws as they do serve as a deterrent to bad acts. But transparency AND truthful reporting is also necessary!! That is absolutely missing in this, as @twobitdavinci calls it, 'drone debacle'! WTF is going on? All these government folks who are claiming no danger should be showing details!
Laws are great and fine. But they need to be sensible, not unprincipled overreach. There's hardly any injuries at all with civilian hobbydrones. What they're seeing over US military installations is not hobbyist drones, or even drones as we understand the term at all. The videos people are posting online is absolutely bizarre interesting and awesome!
I think the point of the sightings was to produce videos like this: get a conversation started about what legislation is required to avoid another debacle, i.e. "how can we get citizens to call for the removal of their own freedoms...?"
The government: We have no idea what is going on! Also the gov: Nothing to worry about. Also the gov: Time to take away your rights. Also the gov: Drones are a security risk, regulate Amwrican drones out so people only buy them from China.
They'll target individual freedoms and outlaw drone ownership. The Ukraine war shows their effectiveness. Billionaire CEO's and Facist Presidents don't want to be Luigied by foreign adversaries or a discontent public
The problem I have with drones is that me as a person has no recourse against a nefarious drone operator. Now after seeing how drones are used in Ukraine I definitely think things Must change. We are essentially sitting ducks with the way the regulations are now. It must be a Lot harder to have the privilege to operate a drone. While I am all for freedoms, if you're violating someone's privacy that's a violation of basic human rights. Therefore we as citizens need to have the ability to defend ourselves against negative operators invading our privacy.
I find it interesting that individuals feel threatened by drones, but not by satellites. Satellites can see better than a drone flying 400 feet above you. I see this drone, the media tells me it is bad, I must do something about it!!
Simple, people can't see satellites, don't know they are "there", and don't know how capable they are! One other example is that you don't commonly hear of a satellite blasting someone into oblivion like you do hear about military use drones. Just because YOU know doesn't mean everyone does nor should.
Ok, this wasn’t your best video. Drones as a hobby are not a new phenomenon, drones used professionally allow to avoid the use of helicopters to survey roofs and small areas, as well as power lines, one of the most dangerous use of rotorcraft. What was reported was an incursion into Class C and higher airspace by a “swarm” of drones. And unfortunately, in the USA, neither the Army nor the police have the right to take them down because of the risk of injuries and damage on the civilian population. That would have been worth debating. That a mapping device made you angry… is of little interest for us.
Apparently people don't know the differences between planets, commercial planes and actual drones. Many also don't understand how to critically analyze a situation. Why would drone from a hostile country use lights as to be visible? These smaller drones can't be controlled from many thousands of miles away either. Other countries already use satellites for surveillance, they don't require drones or balloons.
You really don't want any drones, or anything at all, up in the skies, above your head, above your house, without serious regulations, who is flying them, where, what height, what model and make, and an ID system, with training not to fly where it shouldn't be, near a military area, or airport, or built-up area, and what happens if a car-sized drone fails, falls out of the sky, kills a bunch of people. Do you think people should be able to fly planes without certifications, safety systems, regulations and consequences if they don't keep to the regulations and laws.
@@JonathanSwiftUK according to a lot of people who are commenting I think you and I are a minority. It's sad people want some rights while being able violating someone else's rights without consequences.
I'm just happy that clueless people are becoming aware that bathrooms on the top floor of a house are not an excuse for windows and skylights to be without blinds.
It’s almost all sh$t I have commercial license and it’s harder and harder. People put up videos of Orion’s Belt, Venus, airplanes yet we don’t call them out. They shine lasers in pilots eyes and are online screaming they got the drone. Yet in NJ we don’t call them dumb for never looking up. The busiest air corridor in the country. Like near me is a small airport. Around the airport is a 500m limit. I can’t go up that high so cool. I can photograph this property and now I get harassed even though I’m in my right I checked the rules etc. Why does everyone think drones are not regulated. Any drone over 250g sold has remote id built in. Trust me I get tracked down constantly and harassed with it. New Jersey was not drones at first then people thought it be funny to add to the chaos.
There is a drone-ban in a lot of New Jersey counties now, but the mystery-"drones" keep flying. These aren't drones. They are something very different, and they are all over the world now. Sure, some people post videos of misidentified helicopters and planes, and that's what the media are running with, but the bulk of what people are videoing is clearly neither.
This is why we will never have the mass adoption of flying cars! Imagine your anger if, instead of a drone hovering over your house, it was a flying car! Currently, incompetent drivers, except for the occasional special ones, can’t crash a car on your house when they have an accident.
That's an interesting question. What do you think about a scenario where flying cars and flight paths are 99% automated with computer control? Can you, or would you, agree that might work for our transportation system?
Nice chatgpt script - it presupposes all sightings are drones, which is false right out of gate - not surprised, but to people that haven't yet watch much of this, you're welcome in advance for giving you 17 minutes of your life back.
The problem is you are showing conventional drones on your video. To make people believe that's what's going on. There's something else with different technology flying around.
What has happened to everyone. I work with my drone. I map follow construction progress, keep track of volumes of dirt. No don’t ban them and no don’t make me by a skidipoo for 30k that sucks instead of 1000$ because they bought off congress failed to pass the ban and poof look at that a drone panic the next day.
@@christopherconkright1317 do you use propeller? I do… I can’t imagine not having it to track pile inventories and site work changes on our compost sites. I really hope they would at least protect commercial uses like this!
Flying remote contoled models since 1978 😊 and drones since 2014. Have also some hundred hours in airplane cockpit time at night. From all the videos I have seen, it was clearly only misidentified manned aircraft. There are potentially some true drone sightings. But remember that at night it is very difficult to really judge the distance and the size as there is normally nothing to reference to. Also why are all these videos in such a bad quality?? FYI: the DJI US ban failed fo the 3rd time. This is perhaps the reason for this to happen; who knows?? The sightings have all visible lights which is a bad idea if you want to secretly film or photograph something. You know there there is a Dronescope app? And this mass hysteria is unbelievable Let’s see how this will go forward Our drone regulations in the EU are a little more tight than in the US but still leve freedom for hobbyists.
As for the bad video quality, have you ever actually tried zooming in and filming something in the sky? It's virtually impossible to get a non pixilated video, if you can even keep the object in frame.
Yeah that's what I keep thinking about it. A spy would totally put their lights on in the middle of the night. That's what spies do, in person in the daytime they usually walk around wearing florescent jackets and silly hats...
@@LAkadian Well, when I am at home I have a 2 DSLR's with 500mm+ Tele Zoom and stabilized; I am guessing that I should not be the only one have a good camera equipment at home. And yes I did also already photographed and filmed at night airplanes with these lenses in high quality.
The fact that reported incidents of lasers shining into aircraft have greatly increased since the NJ drone story became a thing, is suggestive of a source of the drone reports... misidentification. Having said that, the definition of navigable airspace yields too little restriction on how low drones can be flown over others' property. When I flew a hang glider in the UK, there were restrictions from overflying built up areas, minimum distance from homes that were outside built areas, and so forth. Similar restrictions on drones wouldn't be unreasonable, nor excessively restrictive, and I think should be implemented by the FAA nationally. Local laws on such basics just lead to confusion. Restrict drones to over public rights of way, or over private property with permission or with a minimum above ground level. That would let realtors do their thing, as well as scenery photographers, even RUclipsrs generally. Search and rescue drone use already requires specific licensing, which can continue to be used to control that. Delivery drones that operate out of sight of the operator should already require specific licensing, which can control that.
That's kinda always been the case with UFOs too. A popular UFO researcher once said that probably only 1 percent or less of sightings were actually legit, but all it takes is a few to legitimize the phenomenon.
Friday night December 20th there were 5 drones, all the same, scanning a grid pattern in the southwest greater Portland (Oregon) metro area (i.e. over Wilsonville, Tualatin, Tigard and Lake Oswego). They were large. My best guess is similar to a small suv size 300-500 ft above terrain. This was about 9pm, while my son and I were traveling down the freeway, so no video of this. We were headed to the Troutdale/Corbett area which is just outside the east Portland metro area (opposite side of town from where we left). There were 3 more of the same ones flying around over I-84 just east of the Lewis and Clark Park exit. They all had what I would call FAA regulation lights. I called and reported it to non emergency the next day on Saturday, but they said they hadn't heard of any other reports or knew anything about it. They looked like a couple of the New Jersey video drones. I have video of the ones at the end of the Columbia River Gorge because I wasn't driving. This is obviously some kind of state sponsored program. There's NO WAY this was foreign or consumer..... please give us SOME idea of the truth. Why does it government and media constantly gas light us?!?!?!
The title of this video suggests that explanation would be provided. Instead only innuendo was delivered. What a waste of time. I love most of your videos but this was not your brightest moment Rick. Sory..
@@MickTattersall .. Ag depts. have been using large rotor drones for years ... I myself have been with operators of 3 ft. and 8 ft. drones .. most civilians can't/won't afford them ..
The drones when first seen people said where flying in a grid pattern, this does not require two way communication. A boat could launch drones with a pre set mission take videos and return without radio transmissions. Making it next to imposable to locate the operator. With that little radar and new laws all they will catch recreational drone operators.
It will be entertaining to see tons of RUclips videos of upset private drone owners intentionally causing havoc to the (corporate muppet) delivery drones after our corrupt disgusting government fully bans private drones just to clear up the air space for Amazon.
Currently, drones fly with the same rights, restrictions, and protections as general aviation aircraft. No, we don't get to shoot them down, even if they are looking in our windows. We can, however use tech. to identify the owner and his/her location and report such to the police and FAA (please, don't take kinetic action on your own. That can and likely will result in criminal charges).
Thank you for your level-headed and informed comment. I was actually considering how to take down drones if they flew over my house. (I have no idea how to do that.) And now I know better. I need to figure out how to identify them and the owner/operator. You likely saved me a lot of trouble!
I do not presently own a drone, but I would like to have one. I personally do not like the idea of restricting the best technology from being imported. Most of the high quality products I buy come from China. I do believe in strict regulations for safety and privacy. There should be significant fines for unsafe use of drones and for spying on private citizens. Perhaps we would have better gun control and regulations if all the guns were imported from China.
Guns and drones both are just tools; a bad actor can use either of them to do bad things, or use an automobile like they just did in Germany; it doesn't matter what the regulations are, criminals don't worry if they're obeying the law or not, if they were worried about breaking the law they wouldn't be doing criminal stuff!
It will be interesting to see what regulations the next gov puts into place about this. They are on record of fewer to no regulation and protecting individual freedom and privacy. Where will they fall in regulating drones? Cheers
This video is a good example of an internet idiot. Where is the evidence of illegal activity? Where is the evidence of data ex filtration? This is simply the result of a US company lobbing Congress to outlaw legitimate competition.
Here you try to fly a toy drone of just a few grams here anywhere near an airport or national park and agents are on you in a few minutes. If there is any mystery is because there's nothing going on worthy of investigation, just more people flying them there because they're curious about the news about other and then they're seen and new ones come in. PS:It feels the video cut out a few seconds before intended, no need to reupload for that
I believe that within certain regulations that any drone that is verified to be a non-threat that is flying in non-restricted airspace it should be allowed for them to fly if they've been proven with an ID you know and they aren't a threat. If they are told by police to leave the area or land the drones and do not comply they should be able to remotely shut the drone down and force confiscate that because the risk of drones being spy tools
I think the recreational use category is on very thin melting ice without electronically enforced geofencing like what DJI already uses. It would make sense to require Part 107 certification for anything that does not.
A number of years ago, a friend of mine who worked for the FAA had the job of asking the question: What could go wrong?. When they started contemplating drone regulations they said that the drones would be programed to not go into No-Fly zones. His response was prophetic: If they can be programed to not go into airport traffic patterns, they can be programed TO go into those areas. Sometimes this falls into the heading of acts of war / espionage.
Recently my six year old grandson was visiting when he called out "Grandpa there's as drone in the front yard". I looked out, and sure enough there was a large black quad copter drone hovering at about 15m over the middle of my front lawn. I quickly scrambled my own drone to intercept but it took too long to synchronise and the intruder skedaddled before an intercept could be completed. The intruder took off to the north and I lost track of it at about 1km. Lesson, have your interceptor synced up, fully charged, on ready alert.
Your content is interesting and enjoyable. Please consider stabilizing your studio table. It is distracting to see it constantly shaking as you talk and move. The background image and you are stable. The table, props, and mic shake. Seems like the table is not fixed and can wobble/shake slightly. It is your studio and your choice on the value of effort and expense.
Airspace is public so you can’t do anything about it flying over your house unless it’s sitting there taking pictures of you and your house. The drone uses its camera to fly so it was probably not taking pictures of you, storage space costs money. We don’t need more laws how about we enforce the ones we have. I am a licensed drone pilot and there’s a ton of people braking the law and I don’t know if anything is done about it. Find the people that are flying and braking the law and do something about it.😮
Wrong. Your property rights extend in airspace above your property up "to the heavens" as defined by law. There is an exception made for aircraft that "transition" through airspace. However drones can hover in place and may not transition through like an jetliner. Therefore there can potentially be legal challenges the exception for aircraft. The ground below your property also extends to the center of the earth, with an exception made for mineral extraction (i.e. fracking).
The last 2 nights I had drone sightings. The first night I noticed a drone flying over my house north. As I watched it I noticed 2 more flying lights that appeared to be flying toward each other. As I watched they got near each other stopped and turned back. The next night I had another drone flying over my house on same path. But I did not see more. It made me think they were flying in a grid like for a search or subs mapping something. I’m in rural Missouri.
@TwoBitDaVinci will you help me understand the comment you just made in your video. You looked up and saw a drone flying over and it made you angry? I don’t understand that. Being a drone pilot I view that as one of the biggest freedoms that a person can have is taking a drone up in the air and flying in any direction and getting any landscape view they want to. Why would I be angry because somebody flew their drone over my house having fun? now if they got down and buzzed around my windows and try to look in that’s a little different and understandably anybody would get upset. That is a world different and getting angry because you see a drone flying over and I don’t understand that. Please help me understand what makes you angry to see a drone flying over your house? How does a drone flying over without stopping and coming down taking any more away from you than a car driving down your road that doesn’t stop and check out your house?
That's a good question. I personally consider my back yard a private space. Cars are driving by right now, and I'm shielded by a hedge & fence. I feel my privacy. If a drone flew over, I would not know if it was looking at me in particular, but I would know it COULD be, and I would know I have lost my privacy. That's why I would be upset. And it's not a matter of distance or altitude, because cameras can zoom in with great detail. I simply want my back yard as private as possible. Yes, satellites and aeroplanes are flying over and taking pictures, but I imagine they are part of a larger & more vague imaging service. Smaller, private drones feel like they are going to focus on me, personally. I hope this explanation is interesting to you. What do you think?
@@UberSprite I appreciate the response and I don’t take any offense at it. I sincerely want to understand but I guess it’s how photographers feel different about being photographed or videographers feel different about being video than the standard people do. If you watch first amendment auditor videos you say government workers who will flip their lid if somebody takes a picture of them or videos them in public at work. To me it doesn’t make any sense because I’m not concerned that somebody’s trying to watch me. Now, if a drone fly over my backyard, I wouldn’t think you’re trying to watch my house unless they stopped and I could tell they were zooming in or angling around where they could zoom in into my backyard. Otherwise I don’t worry. I guess everybody’s different aren’t they? 🙂
Drones are essential for RUclips channels doing wilderness footage. Drones are helpful when planning or inspecting a solar system or possibly a wind farm.
small drones for follow me purpose like biking walking don't bother me no worse then people with cell cameras 😉 but larger drones should be definitely regulated
That which is going on is either not known or kept from the public. Speculation is what is going on in the public domain, not exactly click bait when it is the truth.
We know quite a bit about the "mystery-drones" at this point. They are not hobbyist drones, they started showing up 'en masse' in October in the UK, around and over American run RAF-bases. Then New Jersey military areas, Germanys US Rammstein base.. Now they are seen globally. I'll list key points:
As a full scale pilot, and RC plane pilot, it saddens me to see these stories pop up each year about mysterious flying objects, at night, with Nav lights on. No I don't know what they are but I'm pretty confident they are not eating your dogs or cats. I do appreciate you showing a screen shot of the AMA website as I have been a member for 20 plus years and have seen the Drone hysteria almost put an end to RC flying hobby. Specifically, fixed wing, line of sight flying. While I do not fly drones, by definition under FAA regulation, any unmanned aircraft is considered a drone whether it's a drone or not so technically I am now a drone pilot even though I don't fly drones?🤔 AMA is a good resource for any of your viewers who might want to learn more about Drone regulations and safety. AS the saying goes, Knowledge is power.
The drones where flying over a military base this means one of two things. The drones belong to the government or the government has no way of taking them down.
They have lot's of ways to take them down. It's about rules of engagement. With our current weak ass president the bases are not allowed to take them down. That shit won't fly when Trump gets in.
The government is not allowed to take them down because the FAA has decreed that they have the same privileges as any other aircraft. Besides, what are they going to shoot them with?
@everettputerbaugh3996 no it's because of weak ass Joe. The faa has no jurisdiction over military bases. And they would use emp burst or guns. The fact that you had to even ask that shows you must not be that bright.
Public spaces, other than already restricted airspaces, should be fair game but private spaces (over your house) should be off limits. So, if you want to film and post footage over a public street, go for it but your footage must blur out any adjacent private properties, including your own.
Sadly, people in general, now a days are very anxious, even fearful of every shadow, every possible safety concern, no matter how minimal. It’s probably a group of individuals seeing what kind of hoopla they can stir up.
I don't fly over homes if i can help it just for the reasons you mentioned. I've been flying for 15 years and the #1 question everyone asks is if I'm using it, or have i ever used it to look into peoples homes. It's something I've never even thought of using my drones for. But for some reason its the first thing that people who dont fly drones think of it being used for. People have a real paranoia about such things and this is just highlighting what I've known for years. Makes you wonder what people are doing in their homes that they have such a paranoia of being seen doing those things.
I enjoy your content but you need to work on the mic mount so it doesn’t jiggle. Or don’t rest your arms on the desk while you a gesturing. It’s distracting and causes motion sickness.
I think the availability and access to guns is, has been and will be more dangerous by far that the accessibility to possess a drone whatever it’s capacity until no I can’t recall any fatal event where drones have been used leaving aside military drones and now the possibility to establish legislation to restrict drones usage while you can still obtain powerful automatic weapons is nonsenses to me is like trying to restrict the freedom of speech if people are using drones and breaking the law persecute them as any individual who is using weapons to commit a crime or a car that violates speed limits otherwise we should restrict the limit speeds of all cars to 30 miles and guns that could only shoot potato scraps
man i know you are good on here subscriber wise etc. but man I am so distracted by how unstable your desk is and it's really taking away your msg. You thought of building a more solid non distracting desk that doesn't shake when you talk?
I’m assuming that no one who gets “really mad” about a drone flying over their house does not have a security camera that catches activity at the street level.
Sorry. I'm done with commercials in the middle of your videos. I'm out! Why not give a heads up at the beginning informing everyone there will be a short commercial ad at the END of the video, like many other RUclipsrs do?
The government has no constitutional basis for this. No restrictions on flying. No restrictions on (safely) taking them out if they are in your airspace. It will work itself out quickly and stably.
Most of the NJ drone footage is drones being flown at night. Drones are not authorized to fly at night without permission. This is why authorities are concerned. It would not take much to require all recreational drones to be programmed to refuse to fly at night and to return to their owner at dusk. That would take care of the drone users who do not understand they can't fly their drone at night. Professional drones could be required to only fly at night if the operator confirms they have the legal permission and by default to operate just like recreational drones, returning to the base station at dusk. These two steps would eliminate a huge chunk of unauthorized drone flying.
Yeah we went to war with Iraq over "national security concerns". We've yet to see ANY evidence that validates a Chinese drone ban. So to let legislators pass a ban over unfounded "national security concerns" isn't something we should just let happen. Drawing conclusions and then coming up with "what if's" that COULD happen shouldn't be justification for rash law making.
When I started flying drones almost 8 years ago as a commercial operator the rule book had 20 pages. Today it has over 250. Does it make drone operations safer? Maybe. But it makes basically impossible to operate legally drones and not brake anything from the 250 page rule book. I'd say throw the book on those who cause or intend to cause harm or pose a security threat. Make an example of them and give them harsh punishment. But to make life hell for majority who are responsible operators just because there are a few bad apples out there is counterproductive and bad policy.
I registered when this first started. No test, they just emailed me a number I'm supposed to put on my drones. Don't remember the number. Never put number on drone. I'm not stupid enough to fly them over people. One drone I built from scraps of stuff I had around. The other I built from scratch using easily available parts. Frame, ESCs, motors, controller, power distribution. There is absolutely no way they could regulate the sale of components, many of which are available from fellow makers. Screw DJI.
In a crazy world full of chaos, half truths and just crazy behavior/speculation there is you. Thank you for your video with your thoughts and information.
The airspace for commercial delivery could be incredibly valuable to corporations. Hobbyists and licensed commercial pilots are currently using the airspace that is a potential gold mine for companies. Also, the idea of creating a panic for more legislation seems very possible - although people do very often break the rule/laws. I sold my drone in anticipation of restrictions.
1.) Bann them within city limits without exclusive city or state level permission. 2.) All drone must be identifiable like a cell phone. 3.) Nightly curfue times unless given exclusive city or state permission. 4.) But most importantly... all drones must be identifiable at all times using something like cell phone technology or face being shot down and costly fee! Make sense??? So do it lawmakers! There you have my solution...
If you fly a drone, unsubscribe! 6:20 So if you hold Full Throttle for 2 seconds, you're okay with the federal government slamming a poor person with a bankrupting fine? Why are you okay with criminalizing normal activities?
That line of drones is an X but barely, almost a straight line at the 2 second mark. Why what does that line represent, a highway? A border like edge of a fort, forest, collection farm for solar panels? There must be something there that interests the operators of the drones.
"If an alien sees humans the way we see pets, and the most advanced technology we have is like pet toys to them, why would we try to interfere? The alien is doing whatever it wants, and we know its tech is far beyond anything we've created. It's like a bird (human jets) trying to outsmart a inter-galactic spaceship - there's just no contest."
Try driving down a road in America without a plate on your car, registration, inspection or insurance and see how far you get. Now take 100s of those unregistered vehicles and drive them around military bases, airports, presidential residences at night and see how long the law turns a blind eye to it. Would 100s of unidentified vehicles be non-dangerous because they have not done anything yet. SMH
I'm in Baltimore and literally just saw one at 830 pm flying over my house near the port of Baltimore . I thought it was a small plane flying low. Totally was dumbfounded. 12/21/24
I'm thinking, if you are a home owner (this would apply differently to commercial sites), then you can opt to suspend drone capture video on your property by paying for it or maybe just need to select it (who knows this is just an idea). The Drone has to have software that would only allow for video capture on sites that are identified as public, unless they have the credentials perhaps. In this case I would feel better, as is, I could be, being recorded right now. We'll see....
This was a good educational video with lots of insight. but I wish you had commented on the problem the military has had for over a year, with drones flying over bases and restricted areas. This was long before the public became aware of this issue.
MAGA idiots will soon say, the government's not gonna take my drone away! It says in the constitution that I am allowed to have it and fly it anywhere.
This is terrible approach to governing. Create law on top of law that doesn’t get enforced. Then because of “bad actors” create more laws and restrict freedoms further. Nothing bad happened from this recent drone sightings. On top of that, you left out the possibility these drones were operated by government even though they denied it. How can government say they don’t know what the drones are but there no safety concern? Because they were operating them. Accepting this way of thinking leads to authoritarian lead citizens.
I saw something at night it was concealed by darkness, except for flashing lights. As It flew in a circle pattern it had flashing red and white lights. When it held a hover pattern it had flashing red and green lights. This was at 3 am to 4 am on 12/22 and 12/23 Washington dc petworth area 20011 zip code. I couldn't see it but if i were to guess I'd say it was a bell v 280 the army replacement for the black hawk helicopter.
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I think it's the American military and government are testing these drones to control people for the soon to come global totalitarian dictatorship
It's Amazon guys - busy Holiday season. didn't you get their memo on FastEZ (TM) deliveries???
The official statement “We don’t know what it is, we don’t know who’s doing it or why, but we know it’s not dangerous” is ridiculous at best.
Yeah, and saying it's not illegal is a lie too. They don't have RF tracking, and that's illegal.
@LAkadian you probably mean ads-b/ais
Maybe because they know that drones are legal, there are many of them, and they are no more a problem than identifying every car, truck, bus, motorcycle, scooter or person moving around.
Also over American bases in UK, sighted in China, Japan, Australia, Germany.
I forget, somebody which has a license for a professional drone, would never risk his license and huge fine and don't think all would now start to break the rules and scare the public all of sudden. About radiation, we track radiation only with drones after a reaction already happened, otherwise the radiation is to low to track it on a high of 50yards, for that we have ABC vehicle!
sounds like someone wants to accelerate drone regulation by creating panic...
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That would be the Democrats
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@@maureencallahan1604derpity, derp, derp derp
@@maureencallahan1604 I was thinking more the Karen angle or the nervous Nancy. Not political, because lots of people require drones for businesses like real estate agents.
No matter the reason, one thing is true. The people will cry, and the government will regulate away our freedoms.
@@Cornish_Co nope. I choose not to buy into 'their' desires like you. No crying for me and I Am STAYING free in my mind AND body cuz none of it impacts me negatively.
You expand what you focus on and what energy you send out returns to you in your reality. You're operating Universal Laws to your detriment cuz you're trained to. Switch that up with more insights into those Laws.
I don't fly drones. I fly rc model aircraft, strictly line of sight...and it takes skill to fly these.. I also design, build and 3d print my aircraft. And none of my planes will get off the ground or even stay in the air under 100Mph. They tried to shut us down in 2020...and we fought back.. I will NOT stop enjoying an rc hobby that's been around for over a 100 years...
Sorry your hobby is coming to an end,your RC planes will be blown out of the sky by shot gun welding paranoid crazy red necks😂😂😂😮
noo.. we need to keep the hobby going, for the next generations, and for cultivation technological innovation. So many have started their learning in a lot of different fields, with the RC-hobby.
@@zeke2566I am a crazy paranoid redneck
This definitely seems like a power and money grab. Drones are getting ready to go mainstream. They are going to be used for so many things. They are probably going to replace helicopters. The biggest problem is they want to use them war? The other big problem is the US doesn't manufacture anything? We are going to be let in the dust by rest of the world.
the real question is would you rather live free or live safe. the bigger issue is the same issue with firearms. laws only apply to law abiding people and entities. Foriegn nations wont obey our laws, even our own government breaks its laws. so the question is what is more important? False Safety or True Freedom
So a 16yr old, exercising his "true freedom" & flying his 'new toy' drone into an airliner and potentially killing 300 people makes sense to you?
I see your point. Jail is a safe place, no one can break in, you have medical care, food, a roof over your head clothes to wear and good security, but no freedom. The problem is reaching a balance. True freedom will be no laws. Y0u can drive as fast as you like, where you like on whatever side of the road etc. Also not a good idea.
@@JJSmith1100 Really?
What percentage of the humans in a jail are definite criminals?
What percentage of the humans in suburbs are definite criminals?
Choosing jail to try make a dubious point was poor option.
@JJSmith1100 agreed. The majority of people are too stupid as a whole to self govern. We need government just also have to limit their power. Balance
Dude, remote ID for drones and model aircraft is just being minimally responsible at this point.
FAA has already regulated all of this through Remote ID. Even model airplane flyers, you know, those guys who fly Rc P-51 mustangs around in circles over a field?; even they got regulated. Can’t fly anything anywhere without remote id…The FAA just doesn’t have the man power to enforce it.
This is true and the feds won't authorize local authorities to police drone activity since airspace is controlled at a federal level. Unless we address this situation soon, bad actors will size the opportunity to fly drones under the cover of loads of drones that will act like a smoke screen.
We may have to wait for a serious payload to be deployed and many people get injured or killed before something is done about this problem.
We are sitting ducks.
This is America and Americans are outlaws we stole this country and we live like outlaws I say let them fly
Criminals and bad actors don't follow "rules". You can make all the rules you want, it's not going to change anything. And it seems like the people who want to make new "rules" can't be trusted.
Ban drones. Ban buses........ What next?
So why have any laws at all?
Abject cynicism is both lazy and weak-willed, admitting defeat because a certain small percentage of people don't follow laws that the vast majority of others follow is WHY societies eventually fail.
This "article" did not complete the explanation of the current issue...which report are true, who's responsible for the objects, and why the lack of transparency??!!
Yeah, this comment about laws is a bit overstated. We do need laws as they do serve as a deterrent to bad acts.
But transparency AND truthful reporting is also necessary!! That is absolutely missing in this, as @twobitdavinci calls it, 'drone debacle'!
WTF is going on?
All these government folks who are claiming no danger should be showing details!
Laws are great and fine. But they need to be sensible, not unprincipled overreach. There's hardly any injuries at all with civilian hobbydrones.
What they're seeing over US military installations is not hobbyist drones, or even drones as we understand the term at all. The videos people are posting online is absolutely bizarre interesting and awesome!
I think the point of the sightings was to produce videos like this: get a conversation started about what legislation is required to avoid another debacle, i.e. "how can we get citizens to call for the removal of their own freedoms...?"
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False flag sort of op absolutely came to mind
The government: We have no idea what is going on!
Also the gov: Nothing to worry about.
Also the gov: Time to take away your rights.
Also the gov: Drones are a security risk, regulate Amwrican drones out so people only buy them from China.
They tried to ban DJI right after it failed poof drone panic
They'll target individual freedoms and outlaw drone ownership. The Ukraine war shows their effectiveness. Billionaire CEO's and Facist Presidents don't want to be Luigied by foreign adversaries or a discontent public
The problem I have with drones is that me as a person has no recourse against a nefarious drone operator. Now after seeing how drones are used in Ukraine I definitely think things Must change. We are essentially sitting ducks with the way the regulations are now. It must be a Lot harder to have the privilege to operate a drone. While I am all for freedoms, if you're violating someone's privacy that's a violation of basic human rights. Therefore we as citizens need to have the ability to defend ourselves against negative operators invading our privacy.
Many of the drone sightings have mentioned antlers, and one had a red nose.
One even had American Airlines tail graphics on it.
Ho Ho Ho 😄
ITS SANTA!!!!
I find it interesting that individuals feel threatened by drones, but not by satellites. Satellites can see better than a drone flying 400 feet above you. I see this drone, the media tells me it is bad, I must do something about it!!
Simple, people can't see satellites, don't know they are "there", and don't know how capable they are! One other example is that you don't commonly hear of a satellite blasting someone into oblivion like you do hear about military use drones.
Just because YOU know doesn't mean everyone does nor should.
Satellites are not dropping grenades on persons or tanks. . .
Ricky, I think it's time to buy a sturdier desk! 😂😂
I can't unsee it now 😂 Dang it.
Hahaha! Yeah! I'm donating to the Sturdy Desk fund.
Yeah the shaky mic 😊
Why is this video about quadrocopter drones when people are seeing plasmoids?
Ok, this wasn’t your best video. Drones as a hobby are not a new phenomenon, drones used professionally allow to avoid the use of helicopters to survey roofs and small areas, as well as power lines, one of the most dangerous use of rotorcraft.
What was reported was an incursion into Class C and higher airspace by a “swarm” of drones. And unfortunately, in the USA, neither the Army nor the police have the right to take them down because of the risk of injuries and damage on the civilian population. That would have been worth debating. That a mapping device made you angry… is of little interest for us.
Apparently people don't know the differences between planets, commercial planes and actual drones. Many also don't understand how to critically analyze a situation. Why would drone from a hostile country use lights as to be visible? These smaller drones can't be controlled from many thousands of miles away either. Other countries already use satellites for surveillance, they don't require drones or balloons.
Americans are pretty dumb, that is how the corporate news easily turned this into a raging discussion.
Suddently everybody forgot what planes and helicopters look like? I don't buy it.
Absolutely nothing about this video is interesting. You like all the government overreach.
You really don't want any drones, or anything at all, up in the skies, above your head, above your house, without serious regulations, who is flying them, where, what height, what model and make, and an ID system, with training not to fly where it shouldn't be, near a military area, or airport, or built-up area, and what happens if a car-sized drone fails, falls out of the sky, kills a bunch of people. Do you think people should be able to fly planes without certifications, safety systems, regulations and consequences if they don't keep to the regulations and laws.
@@JonathanSwiftUK according to a lot of people who are commenting I think you and I are a minority. It's sad people want some rights while being able violating someone else's rights without consequences.
I'm just happy that clueless people are becoming aware that bathrooms on the top floor of a house are not an excuse for windows and skylights to be without blinds.
It’s almost all sh$t I have commercial license and it’s harder and harder. People put up videos of Orion’s Belt, Venus, airplanes yet we don’t call them out. They shine lasers in pilots eyes and are online screaming they got the drone. Yet in NJ we don’t call them dumb for never looking up. The busiest air corridor in the country. Like near me is a small airport. Around the airport is a 500m limit. I can’t go up that high so cool. I can photograph this property and now I get harassed even though I’m in my right I checked the rules etc.
Why does everyone think drones are not regulated. Any drone over 250g sold has remote id built in. Trust me I get tracked down constantly and harassed with it. New Jersey was not drones at first then people thought it be funny to add to the chaos.
There is a drone-ban in a lot of New Jersey counties now, but the mystery-"drones" keep flying. These aren't drones. They are something very different, and they are all over the world now.
Sure, some people post videos of misidentified helicopters and planes, and that's what the media are running with, but the bulk of what people are videoing is clearly neither.
This is why we will never have the mass adoption of flying cars!
Imagine your anger if, instead of a drone hovering over your house, it was a flying car!
Currently, incompetent drivers, except for the occasional special ones, can’t crash a car on your house when they have an accident.
That's an interesting question. What do you think about a scenario where flying cars and flight paths are 99% automated with computer control? Can you, or would you, agree that might work for our transportation system?
.... YIKES !! ..
Nice chatgpt script - it presupposes all sightings are drones, which is false right out of gate - not surprised, but to people that haven't yet watch much of this, you're welcome in advance for giving you 17 minutes of your life back.
The problem is you are showing conventional drones on your video. To make people believe that's what's going on. There's something else with different technology flying around.
@@davidmn3696 I think you know whats going on.
Prove it.
What has happened to everyone. I work with my drone. I map follow construction progress, keep track of volumes of dirt. No don’t ban them and no don’t make me by a skidipoo for 30k that sucks instead of 1000$ because they bought off congress failed to pass the ban and poof look at that a drone panic the next day.
@@christopherconkright1317 do you use propeller? I do… I can’t imagine not having it to track pile inventories and site work changes on our compost sites. I really hope they would at least protect commercial uses like this!
@@sidhammer9461 i use pix4d and dronedeploy i will look into propeller
Flying remote contoled models since 1978 😊 and drones since 2014. Have also some hundred hours in airplane cockpit time at night.
From all the videos I have seen, it was clearly only misidentified manned aircraft.
There are potentially some true drone sightings. But remember that at night it is very difficult to really judge the distance and the size as there is normally nothing to reference to.
Also why are all these videos in such a bad quality??
FYI: the DJI US ban failed fo the 3rd time.
This is perhaps the reason for this to happen; who knows??
The sightings have all visible lights which is a bad idea if you want to secretly film or photograph something.
You know there there is a Dronescope app?
And this mass hysteria is unbelievable
Let’s see how this will go forward
Our drone regulations in the EU are a little more tight than in the US but still leve freedom for hobbyists.
As for the bad video quality, have you ever actually tried zooming in and filming something in the sky? It's virtually impossible to get a non pixilated video, if you can even keep the object in frame.
Amen
Most videos are filmed by iphones, low quality just blames Apple.
Yeah that's what I keep thinking about it. A spy would totally put their lights on in the middle of the night. That's what spies do, in person in the daytime they usually walk around wearing florescent jackets and silly hats...
@@LAkadian Well, when I am at home I have a 2 DSLR's with 500mm+ Tele Zoom and stabilized; I am guessing that I should not be the only one have a good camera equipment at home. And yes I did also already photographed and filmed at night airplanes with these lenses in high quality.
The fact that reported incidents of lasers shining into aircraft have greatly increased since the NJ drone story became a thing, is suggestive of a source of the drone reports... misidentification.
Having said that, the definition of navigable airspace yields too little restriction on how low drones can be flown over others' property. When I flew a hang glider in the UK, there were restrictions from overflying built up areas, minimum distance from homes that were outside built areas, and so forth. Similar restrictions on drones wouldn't be unreasonable, nor excessively restrictive, and I think should be implemented by the FAA nationally. Local laws on such basics just lead to confusion. Restrict drones to over public rights of way, or over private property with permission or with a minimum above ground level. That would let realtors do their thing, as well as scenery photographers, even RUclipsrs generally. Search and rescue drone use already requires specific licensing, which can continue to be used to control that. Delivery drones that operate out of sight of the operator should already require specific licensing, which can control that.
That's kinda always been the case with UFOs too. A popular UFO researcher once said that probably only 1 percent or less of sightings were actually legit, but all it takes is a few to legitimize the phenomenon.
When govt says there’s nothing to worry about & your gut tells u otherwise- head for the mountains - source: Hollywood disaster movies 😅
The role of these tiny drones in the current flap is de minimis. The video doesn't actually address the current state of affairs.
Friday night December 20th there were 5 drones, all the same, scanning a grid pattern in the southwest greater Portland (Oregon) metro area (i.e. over Wilsonville, Tualatin, Tigard and Lake Oswego). They were large. My best guess is similar to a small suv size 300-500 ft above terrain. This was about 9pm, while my son and I were traveling down the freeway, so no video of this. We were headed to the Troutdale/Corbett area which is just outside the east Portland metro area (opposite side of town from where we left). There were 3 more of the same ones flying around over I-84 just east of the Lewis and Clark Park exit. They all had what I would call FAA regulation lights. I called and reported it to non emergency the next day on Saturday, but they said they hadn't heard of any other reports or knew anything about it. They looked like a couple of the New Jersey video drones. I have video of the ones at the end of the Columbia River Gorge because I wasn't driving. This is obviously some kind of state sponsored program. There's NO WAY this was foreign or consumer..... please give us SOME idea of the truth. Why does it government and media constantly gas light us?!?!?!
@twobitdavinci Please see this associated comment. This is definitely an organized activity that is not being prevented.
It’s just swamp gas
The title of this video suggests that explanation would be provided. Instead only innuendo was delivered. What a waste of time. I love most of your videos but this was not your brightest moment Rick. Sory..
Far harder to get a drone license than it is to vote or become a US citizen. Hmm, wonder why?
because if you drop your vote from the sky it's not gonna kill anyone?
Drones the size of cars.........that is what many have reported. These are not the drones you can buy as a civilian from any store.
@@TheMighty_T this is what people have claimed. But I'm yet to see anything that backs this up.
@@MickTattersall .. Ag depts. have been using large rotor drones for years ... I myself have been with operators of 3 ft. and 8 ft. drones .. most civilians can't/won't afford them ..
The drones when first seen people said where flying in a grid pattern, this does not require two way communication. A boat could launch drones with a pre set mission take videos and return without radio transmissions. Making it next to imposable to locate the operator. With that little radar and new laws all they will catch recreational drone operators.
I think corporate delivery service via drones will be why they regulate. Pirate drones will cause too much chaos in airspace.
It will be entertaining to see tons of RUclips videos of upset private drone owners intentionally causing havoc to the (corporate muppet) delivery drones after our corrupt disgusting government fully bans private drones just to clear up the air space for Amazon.
Currently, drones fly with the same rights, restrictions, and protections as general aviation aircraft. No, we don't get to shoot them down, even if they are looking in our windows. We can, however use tech. to identify the owner and his/her location and report such to the police and FAA (please, don't take kinetic action on your own. That can and likely will result in criminal charges).
Thank you for your level-headed and informed comment. I was actually considering how to take down drones if they flew over my house. (I have no idea how to do that.) And now I know better. I need to figure out how to identify them and the owner/operator. You likely saved me a lot of trouble!
All I can say is, I'm a free American. I will stay free. Keep that in mind when I fly mine. Keep that in mine when you fly yours.
Another bad video without any new information in it
Click bait is what's really going on.
I do not presently own a drone, but I would like to have one. I personally do not like the idea of restricting the best technology from being imported. Most of the high quality products I buy come from China. I do believe in strict regulations for safety and privacy. There should be significant fines for unsafe use of drones and for spying on private citizens. Perhaps we would have better gun control and regulations if all the guns were imported from China.
Firearms Regulations is what crossed my mind when watching this video. Do people realize drone ownership and use is more strictly regulated than guns?
@ Widespread and completely unregulated guns is so entrenched in this country I don’t know if anything can change it.
Guns and drones both are just tools; a bad actor can use either of them to do bad things, or use an automobile like they just did in Germany; it doesn't matter what the regulations are, criminals don't worry if they're obeying the law or not, if they were worried about breaking the law they wouldn't be doing criminal stuff!
It will be interesting to see what regulations the next gov puts into place about this. They are on record of fewer to no regulation and protecting individual freedom and privacy. Where will they fall in regulating drones? Cheers
This video is a good example of an internet idiot. Where is the evidence of illegal activity? Where is the evidence of data ex filtration? This is simply the result of a US company lobbing Congress to outlaw legitimate competition.
I'm listening to YOU. What's your explanation?
you need to put that table on a gimbal
Here you try to fly a toy drone of just a few grams here anywhere near an airport or national park and agents are on you in a few minutes. If there is any mystery is because there's nothing going on worthy of investigation, just more people flying them there because they're curious about the news about other and then they're seen and new ones come in.
PS:It feels the video cut out a few seconds before intended, no need to reupload for that
I believe that within certain regulations that any drone that is verified to be a non-threat that is flying in non-restricted airspace it should be allowed for them to fly if they've been proven with an ID you know and they aren't a threat. If they are told by police to leave the area or land the drones and do not comply they should be able to remotely shut the drone down and force confiscate that because the risk of drones being spy tools
Maybe every drone should require transponders.
They have to transmit their identity already.
Congrats on reaching 700K subs!!!
I think the recreational use category is on very thin melting ice without electronically enforced geofencing like what DJI already uses. It would make sense to require Part 107 certification for anything that does not.
I hate to drone on about this, but it's gonna get more heavily regulated pretty quickly. Thanks Ricky!
Doesn't every major country have satellites that have optics far better than any drone?
In the movies
They actually do. The 30cm (about 1 feet) per pixel limit is a legal limit, not a technical limitation. Nowhere near.
A number of years ago, a friend of mine who worked for the FAA had the job of asking the question: What could go wrong?. When they started contemplating drone regulations they said that the drones would be programed to not go into No-Fly zones. His response was prophetic: If they can be programed to not go into airport traffic patterns, they can be programed TO go into those areas. Sometimes this falls into the heading of acts of war / espionage.
Recently my six year old grandson was visiting when he called out "Grandpa there's as drone in the front yard". I looked out, and sure enough there was a large black quad copter drone hovering at about 15m over the middle of my front lawn. I quickly scrambled my own drone to intercept but it took too long to synchronise and the intruder skedaddled before an intercept could be completed.
The intruder took off to the north and I lost track of it at about 1km. Lesson, have your interceptor synced up, fully charged, on ready alert.
Your content is interesting and enjoyable. Please consider stabilizing your studio table. It is distracting to see it constantly shaking as you talk and move. The background image and you are stable. The table, props, and mic shake. Seems like the table is not fixed and can wobble/shake slightly. It is your studio and your choice on the value of effort and expense.
Airspace is public so you can’t do anything about it flying over your house unless it’s sitting there taking pictures of you and your house. The drone uses its camera to fly so it was probably not taking pictures of you, storage space costs money. We don’t need more laws how about we enforce the ones we have. I am a licensed drone pilot and there’s a ton of people braking the law and I don’t know if anything is done about it. Find the people that are flying and braking the law and do something about it.😮
Wrong. Your property rights extend in airspace above your property up "to the heavens" as defined by law. There is an exception made for aircraft that "transition" through airspace. However drones can hover in place and may not transition through like an jetliner. Therefore there can potentially be legal challenges the exception for aircraft.
The ground below your property also extends to the center of the earth, with an exception made for mineral extraction (i.e. fracking).
The last 2 nights I had drone sightings.
The first night I noticed a drone flying over my house north. As I watched it I noticed 2 more flying lights that appeared to be flying toward each other. As I watched they got near each other stopped and turned back.
The next night I had another drone flying over my house on same path. But I did not see more.
It made me think they were flying in a grid like for a search or subs mapping something.
I’m in rural Missouri.
@TwoBitDaVinci will you help me understand the comment you just made in your video. You looked up and saw a drone flying over and it made you angry? I don’t understand that. Being a drone pilot I view that as one of the biggest freedoms that a person can have is taking a drone up in the air and flying in any direction and getting any landscape view they want to. Why would I be angry because somebody flew their drone over my house having fun? now if they got down and buzzed around my windows and try to look in that’s a little different and understandably anybody would get upset. That is a world different and getting angry because you see a drone flying over and I don’t understand that. Please help me understand what makes you angry to see a drone flying over your house? How does a drone flying over without stopping and coming down taking any more away from you than a car driving down your road that doesn’t stop and check out your house?
That's a good question. I personally consider my back yard a private space. Cars are driving by right now, and I'm shielded by a hedge & fence. I feel my privacy. If a drone flew over, I would not know if it was looking at me in particular, but I would know it COULD be, and I would know I have lost my privacy. That's why I would be upset.
And it's not a matter of distance or altitude, because cameras can zoom in with great detail. I simply want my back yard as private as possible. Yes, satellites and aeroplanes are flying over and taking pictures, but I imagine they are part of a larger & more vague imaging service. Smaller, private drones feel like they are going to focus on me, personally.
I hope this explanation is interesting to you. What do you think?
@@UberSprite I appreciate the response and I don’t take any offense at it. I sincerely want to understand but I guess it’s how photographers feel different about being photographed or videographers feel different about being video than the standard people do. If you watch first amendment auditor videos you say government workers who will flip their lid if somebody takes a picture of them or videos them in public at work. To me it doesn’t make any sense because I’m not concerned that somebody’s trying to watch me. Now, if a drone fly over my backyard, I wouldn’t think you’re trying to watch my house unless they stopped and I could tell they were zooming in or angling around where they could zoom in into my backyard. Otherwise I don’t worry. I guess everybody’s different aren’t they? 🙂
Freedom drones and freedom guns on drones. What could possibly go wrong?
Drones are essential for RUclips channels doing wilderness footage. Drones are helpful when planning or inspecting a solar system or possibly a wind farm.
Always appreciate your content Ricky! All the best to you and your team this holiday season and for the New Year !
small drones for follow me purpose like biking walking don't bother me no worse then people with cell cameras 😉 but larger drones should be definitely regulated
What a click bait & waste of a video.
What's really going on? Lmao no answers just speculation you can get while bs'ing with friends.
That which is going on is either not known or kept from the public. Speculation is what is going on in the public domain, not exactly click bait when it is the truth.
I'm listening to YOU. What's your explanation?
@UberSprite for what reason? Did I make a video and misleadingly title it? Big miss there bud.
@everettputerbaugh3996 yeah if words didn't have meanings, I guess you're right.
We know quite a bit about the "mystery-drones" at this point. They are not hobbyist drones, they started showing up 'en masse' in October in the UK, around and over American run RAF-bases. Then New Jersey military areas, Germanys US Rammstein base.. Now they are seen globally. I'll list key points:
As a full scale pilot, and RC plane pilot, it saddens me to see these stories pop up each year about mysterious flying objects, at night, with Nav lights on. No I don't know what they are but I'm pretty confident they are not eating your dogs or cats.
I do appreciate you showing a screen shot of the AMA website as I have been a member for 20 plus years and have seen the Drone hysteria almost put an end to RC flying hobby. Specifically, fixed wing, line of sight flying. While I do not fly drones, by definition under FAA regulation, any unmanned aircraft is considered a drone whether it's a drone or not so technically I am now a drone pilot even though I don't fly drones?🤔 AMA is a good resource for any of your viewers who might want to learn more about Drone regulations and safety. AS the saying goes, Knowledge is power.
The drones where flying over a military base this means one of two things. The drones belong to the government or the government has no way of taking them down.
They have lot's of ways to take them down. It's about rules of engagement. With our current weak ass president the bases are not allowed to take them down. That shit won't fly when Trump gets in.
The government is not allowed to take them down because the FAA has decreed that they have the same privileges as any other aircraft. Besides, what are they going to shoot them with?
@everettputerbaugh3996 no it's because of weak ass Joe. The faa has no jurisdiction over military bases. And they would use emp burst or guns. The fact that you had to even ask that shows you must not be that bright.
There's a drone-ban over most counties of New Jersey now. They have tried all the GPS-spoofing and EW stuff. The mystery-"drones" are still flying.
@@everettputerbaugh3996 Scud missile comes to mind lol.
Public spaces, other than already restricted airspaces, should be fair game but private spaces (over your house) should be off limits. So, if you want to film and post footage over a public street, go for it but your footage must blur out any adjacent private properties, including your own.
Buy new desk. The desk, laptop, mic, everything is moving back and forth. Spend some more money. Just an annoying observation.
Sadly, people in general, now a days are very anxious, even fearful of every shadow, every possible safety concern, no matter how minimal.
It’s probably a group of individuals seeing what kind of hoopla they can stir up.
This is what happens when people are stuck looking at phones for the last 10 to 15 years…They eventually look up 👆🏽
I don't fly over homes if i can help it just for the reasons you mentioned.
I've been flying for 15 years and the #1 question everyone asks is if I'm using it, or have i ever used it to look into peoples homes.
It's something I've never even thought of using my drones for. But for some reason its the first thing that people who dont fly drones think of it being used for.
People have a real paranoia about such things and this is just highlighting what I've known for years.
Makes you wonder what people are doing in their homes that they have such a paranoia of being seen doing those things.
I enjoy your content but you need to work on the mic mount so it doesn’t jiggle. Or don’t rest your arms on the desk while you a gesturing. It’s distracting and causes motion sickness.
I'll save you time. If you are looking for solid ideas of "What's REALLY Going On?" this is not the video to watch.
I'm listening to YOU. What's your explanation?
I think the availability and access to guns is, has been and will be more dangerous by far that the accessibility to possess a drone whatever it’s capacity until no I can’t recall any fatal event where drones have been used leaving aside military drones and now the possibility to establish legislation to restrict drones usage while you can still obtain powerful automatic weapons is nonsenses to me is like trying to restrict the freedom of speech if people are using drones and breaking the law persecute them as any individual who is using weapons to commit a crime or a car that violates speed limits otherwise we should restrict the limit speeds of all cars to 30 miles and guns that could only shoot potato scraps
man i know you are good on here subscriber wise etc. but man I am so distracted by how unstable your desk is and it's really taking away your msg. You thought of building a more solid non distracting desk that doesn't shake when you talk?
it's weird how USA want to restrict drones but not firearms '-'
I’m assuming that no one who gets “really mad” about a drone flying over their house does not have a security camera that catches activity at the street level.
You can't buy these type of drones in the night sky...so they aren't registered. What's the point in going on about them as if they might be?
Excellent evaluation! Thanks.
Sorry. I'm done with commercials in the middle of your videos. I'm out! Why not give a heads up at the beginning informing everyone there will be a short commercial ad at the END of the video, like many other RUclipsrs do?
Great vid! Very informative!
The government has no constitutional basis for this. No restrictions on flying. No restrictions on (safely) taking them out if they are in your airspace. It will work itself out quickly and stably.
Most of the NJ drone footage is drones being flown at night. Drones are not authorized to fly at night without permission. This is why authorities are concerned.
It would not take much to require all recreational drones to be programmed to refuse to fly at night and to return to their owner at dusk. That would take care of the drone users who do not understand they can't fly their drone at night.
Professional drones could be required to only fly at night if the operator confirms they have the legal permission and by default to operate just like recreational drones, returning to the base station at dusk.
These two steps would eliminate a huge chunk of unauthorized drone flying.
Yeah we went to war with Iraq over "national security concerns". We've yet to see ANY evidence that validates a Chinese drone ban. So to let legislators pass a ban over unfounded "national security concerns" isn't something we should just let happen. Drawing conclusions and then coming up with "what if's" that COULD happen shouldn't be justification for rash law making.
When I started flying drones almost 8 years ago as a commercial operator the rule book had 20 pages. Today it has over 250. Does it make drone operations safer? Maybe. But it makes basically impossible to operate legally drones and not brake anything from the 250 page rule book. I'd say throw the book on those who cause or intend to cause harm or pose a security threat. Make an example of them and give them harsh punishment. But to make life hell for majority who are responsible operators just because there are a few bad apples out there is counterproductive and bad policy.
I registered when this first started. No test, they just emailed me a number I'm supposed to put on my drones.
Don't remember the number. Never put number on drone. I'm not stupid enough to fly them over people.
One drone I built from scraps of stuff I had around. The other I built from scratch using easily available parts. Frame, ESCs, motors, controller, power distribution.
There is absolutely no way they could regulate the sale of components, many of which are available from fellow makers. Screw DJI.
In a crazy world full of chaos, half truths and just crazy behavior/speculation there is you. Thank you for your video with your thoughts and information.
The airspace for commercial delivery could be incredibly valuable to corporations. Hobbyists and licensed commercial pilots are currently using the airspace that is a potential gold mine for companies.
Also, the idea of creating a panic for more legislation seems very possible - although people do very often break the rule/laws. I sold my drone in anticipation of restrictions.
The news reports are describing SUV sized drones. The government does not know? Focus on the issue folks.
1.) Bann them within city limits without exclusive city or state level permission.
2.) All drone must be identifiable like a cell phone.
3.) Nightly curfue times unless given exclusive city or state permission.
4.) But most importantly... all drones must be identifiable at all times using something like cell phone technology or face being shot down and costly fee!
Make sense??? So do it lawmakers! There you have my solution...
It was the right decision to change the laws, but it was wrong to use this ridiculous display to force the issue because the USA is a Republic.
If you fly a drone, unsubscribe! 6:20 So if you hold Full Throttle for 2 seconds, you're okay with the federal government slamming a poor person with a bankrupting fine? Why are you okay with criminalizing normal activities?
So does that mean that Amazon can still be fine using them to drop off packages?
That line of drones is an X but barely, almost a straight line at the 2 second mark. Why what does that line represent, a highway? A border like edge of a fort, forest, collection farm for solar panels? There must be something there that interests the operators of the drones.
"If an alien sees humans the way we see pets, and the most advanced technology we have is like pet toys to them, why would we try to interfere? The alien is doing whatever it wants, and we know its tech is far beyond anything we've created. It's like a bird (human jets) trying to outsmart a inter-galactic spaceship - there's just no contest."
Try driving down a road in America without a plate on your car, registration, inspection or insurance and see how far you get. Now take 100s of those unregistered vehicles and drive them around military bases, airports, presidential residences at night and see how long the law turns a blind eye to it. Would 100s of unidentified vehicles be non-dangerous because they have not done anything yet. SMH
I'm in Baltimore and literally just saw one at 830 pm flying over my house near the port of Baltimore . I thought it was a small plane flying low. Totally was dumbfounded. 12/21/24
I'm thinking, if you are a home owner (this would apply differently to commercial sites), then you can opt to suspend drone capture video on your property by paying for it or maybe just need to select it (who knows this is just an idea). The Drone has to have software that would only allow for video capture on sites that are identified as public, unless they have the credentials perhaps. In this case I would feel better, as is, I could be, being recorded right now. We'll see....
This was a good educational video with lots of insight. but I wish you had commented on the problem the military has had for over a year, with drones flying over bases and restricted areas. This was long before the public became aware of this issue.
MAGA idiots will soon say, the government's not gonna take my drone away! It says in the constitution that I am allowed to have it and fly it anywhere.
Make Drones Great Again.
@@JeanPierreWhite Yep!
This is terrible approach to governing. Create law on top of law that doesn’t get enforced. Then because of “bad actors” create more laws and restrict freedoms further. Nothing bad happened from this recent drone sightings. On top of that, you left out the possibility these drones were operated by government even though they denied it. How can government say they don’t know what the drones are but there no safety concern? Because they were operating them. Accepting this way of thinking leads to authoritarian lead citizens.
So you completely ignored the ufo/uap theory...
yes because its stupid.
@@zoemayne ...well said,
Or is it?
I saw something at night it was concealed by darkness, except for flashing lights. As It flew in a circle pattern it had flashing red and white lights. When it held a hover pattern it had flashing red and green lights. This was at 3 am to 4 am on 12/22 and 12/23 Washington dc petworth area 20011 zip code. I couldn't see it but if i were to guess I'd say it was a bell v 280 the army replacement for the black hawk helicopter.
Is the trust certificate issued just for drones? What about my hobby planes I fly at my club field registered with the FAA and AMA?