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On 9/20/14 11:09 PM, wrote:
On Sat, 20 Sep 2014 18:14:04 -0700 (PDT), John H
wrote:

Apparently the FAA found out about our flying behind one of the local schools and informed the county it was a no-no. School security came out this morning and nicely ran us off.

The next closest legal place is in Maryland. Hell of a place to go for anything, but you gotta take a little bad with the good. The new field has a 50 yard asphalt runway and lots of room.

I'm going to learn to fly this damn airplane yet.

That is where the quad rotor starts to show it;s advantages. You can
fly them in more places.

The kid who works for my wife has developed a pretty good business
building these things. Most of the skill (and profit) is actually in
programming the on board electronics tho.
He is also getting a lot of interest in commercial operations but the
legality is still in limbo. People want him to shoot aerials of golf
courses, housing developments and other real estate, them edit them
into a well produced video. To get around the legal problems he is
trying to figure out a way that they are actually doing the raw
photography with a rented copter. He is only selling the post
production and renting the copter. That is probably illegal too but he
has more plausible deniability.
FAA really needs to fix this BS. Knowing how our government works,
they will want a license that requires years and thousands of hours of
training to get.

Seems perfectly ok to fly these little devices around open fields
designated for such use, but flying over the backyards of people not
participating in the taking of these vids seems like an invasion of
privacy and shouldn't be allowed. On the other hand, might be an
opportunity to develop and sell jamming devices that cause the model
planes to crash and burn.