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Point taken... But, when they can take a picture from 30,000 and count your nose hairs, I don;t think they will be low enough for us to complain.

BTW, I used to be in and out of Waco for RAM and an Annual by a local guy on a 421.

ajwakeboarder wrote: No, you don't. FAR 91.119

Yep, I know about that one but the FARs are not applicable to me, as a homeowner. When I buy a house, I don't sign off agreeing to part 91, 121 or 135? I do however if I am in a close proximity to an airport.

This brings up a good question... I own my mineral rights but do we, as homeowners, own the airspace above our homes? Maybe up to a certain height? Never really thought about it.

Andrew wrote:The market potential for UAV's is huge. My youngest BIL just retired from USAF after running Holloman's UAV maintanence shop, he's had multiple offers of civilian employment from the Federal Gov't to Disney, yes y'know the magic kingdom, MSM networks to police departments. Everybody wants some.....
Having the Montgomery Co. Sheriff possessing a UAV capable of being armed with a grenade launcher or auto shotgun is nervous making,too.

Yes, huge. Utilities are after them as well to survey power lines, gas pipelines and the likes. Anyone here work for flight safety or simuflite? Have you heard that they have both hired UAV people to start developing training programs for them? I haven't confirmed this but is a "rumor" around the airport.

UAV are on the way and there is no way to get rid of them. one of the larger issues right now are the issues with interference such as that from Light Squared http://www.gps.gov/spectrum/lightsquared/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; and the GPS jammers that truck drivers are using: http://www.gps.gov/spectrum/jamming/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Wodathunkit wrote:

Andrew wrote:The market potential for UAV's is huge. My youngest BIL just retired from USAF after running Holloman's UAV maintanence shop, he's had multiple offers of civilian employment from the Federal Gov't to Disney, yes y'know the magic kingdom, MSM networks to police departments. Everybody wants some.....
Having the Montgomery Co. Sheriff possessing a UAV capable of being armed with a grenade launcher or auto shotgun is nervous making,too.

As long as there is an open season with a "no bag limit", I'm not opposed to drones. I'd love to mount one of those things in my trophy room.

I'd love to take that sucker to a taxidermist and have em mount it. They'd all have to learn how to fiberglass to "cover" the bullet holes.

And there are a couple private companies currently in the study phase of buying drones. One of them is for agricultural reasons and color-infrared photography to see something about crops.... Another wants to license its use to states for animal research. I'll see if I can find them. I was reading about it on Pulse and think it was PopSci or something along those lines.