FAA Can Make All Drone Flights Illegal, Federal Court Rules

[Billy_boy_2010]

Agreed. It's amazing that in such a massive country with so much open space and huge scientific resources they act as though they want to deny their people of the benefits of this technology.

Let's be honest what's the benefit of the tech to the community and the people of the USA?! :s

Don't kid yourself- the ability of someone to take a video of their child/property/a nice view from their quadcopter has absolutely no benefit to the community or the people of the USA.

All the real benefits (search and rescue, property and landscape analysis/viewing, cheaper arial photography for low budget productions) along with lots of other obscure benefits can still be performed by the fully insured and regulated professionals.

Not having a go at you- but I think FPVers can lose perspective and get very egotistical about their hobby. People argue for it and compare it to the fear people had for the car. Someone with £500 who wants to mess about with a drone is hardly comparable to the development of the car. It has potential in commercial uses of course. But that's not the same.

When courier by drone actually becomes a viable option they will have to relent anyway. Until then- it's very hard to police and monitor so people will just fly in obscure places away from people- which is largely what they should be doing anyway :)

It's the USA anyway who cares?!