UAV Hunting License Applications Mount
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Colorado town that will vote in October on a controversial ordinance to issue
hunting licenses to shoot down unmanned aircraft over the town has been flooded
with applications already and prompted the town to put a whimsical spin on the
plan. More than 1,000 people have sent Deer Trail Town Clerk Kim Oldfield $25
for the license, which, if legalized in a referendum by the 380 registered
voters in the town of 600, would give them the right to bring down a UAV over
the town.

One could treat this as a humorous hahaha story. But at $25 per license,
clearly people are taking it seriously and will want to exercise their
new right to shoot at things zooming through the air. I doubt too many
will take much care between a manned and un-manned airplane. Never-mind
what the town is doing violates Federal law, the yahoos who have already
sent in their money now feel they literally have a license to kill. The
FAA should put a TFR around this entire town.
--
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the
opposite.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith

Dear Bug,

Given my mounting disillusionment with the mental capacity of my fellow man,
I'm inclined to agree that your fears are probably well founded.

That said, I must confess my observation of the powerful UAV industry lobbies'
attempts to force the FAA to integrate UAVs/UASs into the National Airspace
System despite their inability to comply with the see-and-avoid regulation
smacks of arrogant hubris indeed. This is just what the airline flying public
needs, a blind aerial hazard exempt from FAA regulations. :-(

The latest proposed immigration reform bill mandates the purchase of eighteen
MQ-9 Reaper drones at $20-million each, not to mention the cost of operating
them with multi-man crews, satellite communications links, ground support
trailers, ... It seems to me, that we could put a lot of airmen to work flying
boarder patrol for a lot less expense and less impact on safety.

Additionally, a Texas professor has publicly demonstrated recently how a drone
can be commandeered, and "piloted" by anyone with a small radio transmitter
capable of overriding weak satellite based GPS signals, and spoofing a bogus
location. Think terrorists who don't need to die for the cause...

In any event, drones are a big issue, that needs some light shed on it pronto,
IMNSHO.

Best regards,
Larry


On Mon, 09 Sep 2013 09:09:44 -0700, Bug Dout > wrote:

>One could treat this as a humorous hahaha story. But at $25 per license,
>clearly people are taking it seriously and will want to exercise their
>new right to shoot at things zooming through the air. I doubt too many
>will take much care between a manned and un-manned airplane. Never-mind
>what the town is doing violates Federal law, the yahoos who have already
>sent in their money now feel they literally have a license to kill. The
>FAA should put a TFR around this entire town.

On 10/09/13 03:17, Larry Dighera wrote:
>
> UAV Hunting License Applications Mount
> http://www.avweb.com/eletter/archives/101/2626-full.html#220551The?ET=avweb:e2626:218609a:&st=email
> Colorado town that will vote in October on a controversial ordinance to issue
> hunting licenses to shoot down unmanned aircraft over the town has been flooded
> with applications already and prompted the town to put a whimsical spin on the
> plan. More than 1,000 people have sent Deer Trail Town Clerk Kim Oldfield $25
> for the license, which, if legalized in a referendum by the 380 registered
> voters in the town of 600, would give them the right to bring down a UAV over
> the town.
>

And the UAV's are going to come armed.
There are a number of videos on the Net I suggest you watch

On 9/9/2013 10:17 AM, Larry Dighera wrote:
>
> UAV Hunting License Applications Mount
> http://www.avweb.com/eletter/archives/101/2626-full.html#220551The?ET=avweb:e2626:218609a:&st=email
> Colorado town that will vote in October on a controversial ordinance to issue
> hunting licenses to shoot down unmanned aircraft over the town has been flooded
> with applications already and prompted the town to put a whimsical spin on the
> plan. More than 1,000 people have sent Deer Trail Town Clerk Kim Oldfield $25
> for the license, which, if legalized in a referendum by the 380 registered
> voters in the town of 600, would give them the right to bring down a UAV over
> the town.
>

Can we hunt them from the air also? The government has no business
spying on its own citizens with the UAVs, besides, they are a hazard to
air navigation. I don't want anything in the air with me that doesn't
also have a chance of dying if it collides with me. Just seems kind of
fair, doesn't it?