I think it's not the fear of the drone it's a privacy matter for many

If a drone passes by a property that is one thing. But if a drone flies into your property and begins maneuvering around to view your private domain then it is getting impaled with bird shot.

If a drone gets to low and peers in my window. It's going down, my dog is going to get it. I don't think they can fine or jail my dog lol.

I believe your enthusiasm for drones blinds you to the fact that a lot of people are aware of how weirdos can use this technology to target them or their children. I would give drone users some advice. Always respect your neighbors and if possible expose them to your hobby. Don’t be snarky or you’ll end up causing people to demand more restrictive laws in your state or region.

Imagine seriously calling the police and expecting them to do anything for a drone when they can’t even arrive to your house for a home invasion in less than ten minutes

I am all for people enjoying their favorite recreational activity but...... If I own 20 acres, completely private and my wife wants to tan topless at our swimming pool in the privacy of our property, what gives anyone the right to fly over and invade our favorite recreational activity? Who doesn't value their privacy at home and what gives anyone the right to invade it?

Privacy is important to people, as it should be. If I'm on my own property, I shouldn't have to be concerned about someone flying a drone nearby, who may or may not be filming me or my family.

I’m a beginner drone pilot and when I’m in a recreational area or a most visiting tourist site in the rainforest I used to ask them if don’t bothered them to fly my drone. 100% times people appreciate my iniciative and even posed for the drone.

If your neighbor threatens to shoot your drone if you fly it over his house, SIMPLY DON’T FLY IT OVER HIS HOUSE. Be the bigger person by being considerate.

Something similar happened to me once. In my conversation with the individual what I said was “If I was walking around the construction site and shooting photos with my iPhone would you have said anything to me?” He said that it wasn’t the same thing and then called the police. When the police showed up and I presented my Part 107 card they asked the accuser to not waste their time and to know the rules before approaching a drone pilot.

I live in a rural area and if there is a drone over my home, it will come down.

"ammo falling" tell me you've never bird hunted without telling me you've never bird hunted

Thanks for the video. I have a drone, never ran it, but I did get my license and am prepared. A fellow visited us while we were camping in Arizona and did a drone video on Christmas of 2018. He posted it, and I go to it regularly. Why? Well he has my wonderful wife of 51 years and I waving at the drone as he zooms down and back up. I lost my wife to cancer in 2020 and I miss her more then life itself, I have been healing myself, but now find myself with cancer, just had a kidney removed because of that, but when I really miss her I go to that site and she waves at me with such joy on her face, it helps. . .

A few tips: I try to follow the roads when flying over neighborhoods, most people don't care when the drone is flying over a "common area" vs their own pool or back yard -If you want to hover, do it over parking lots, farm lands, malls, etc. Don't hover over yards -A 100 feet elevation is my minimum

I live on 20 acres that boarders a state park in a very rural location. State park policy is “no drones” and has signs that state such. Yet still they buzz over and come within a stones throw of me and my family. I tried all the legit channels to no avail. I’m now going to turn to #7 bird shot. Or maybe rubber shot. I’m not a crotchety person, just fed up.

As one who has made his living in the aviation field for most of my life I would like to address the aircraft strike topic. Yes it is true that the amount of drone strikes by aircraft at this time is basically almost zero, with the amount of people entering the drone flying hobby is steadily increasing, and will become an increased risk. I personally have seen birds as small as a sparrow take out a jet engine. Drones no matter how small are more substantial than tiny birds. I know that things ingested into engines are not always catastrophic, I have also seen larger birds, and in one instance a large flashlight ingested into an engine without any apparent damage, but anything going through an engine may cause catastrophic failure. As far as personal privacy is concerned, if you have to fly a drone over personal property, I would suggest that you do it at an altitude high enough that it does not cause concern. If you see a drone flying low and slow over your property, you can not help but think that somebody is spying on you.

I've been harassed by a drone pilot before. I was looking at a home to buy and a neighbor made sure to make himself a nuisance with his drone. He was flying about 30 ft above the backyard and watching us as we looked at the house. We left quickly and crossed that house off our list. If we had purchased that home and that behavior continued, there would have been problems.

Looks like there will be some interesting court cases testing the conflict between navigation vs privacy/personal protection rights. The federal government states that in non-congested areas, the area above 500 feet is navigable airspace. If someone shot down a surveillance (camera enabled) drone flying over their property, at less than 250 feet altitude, trespassing and personal protection (anti-stalking, unauthorized surveillance, privacy) rights could be in conflict with a drone owner's navigation rights. At trial, it seems fairly likely that a jury would side with a property owner's privacy concerns over the rights of a drone owner to fly over anyone's property, with a camera, and without the property owner's permission.

As a former Drone Pilot it has been my experience that people do not fear the drone it's self. It is the fear of not knowing what the drone is recording meaning they do not know if the drone is actually recording them personally. Also, most people do not fully comprehend the lawful rights for themselves and/or others meaning when it come to the laws most people have little to know comprehension of what is legal or illegal. Education and full comprehensions of the rights for self and others is paramount. As a suggestion of when and where a plane or drone can and can not fly over a section area of land and/or water that restrictions apply such as no-fly-zones are important to point out to people that do not comprehend the full scope of the given situation. Thank you for helping people to learn the lawfully rights of Drone Pilots. Many blessings...

Hello from Oklahoma! Just remember, laws on privacy and drones varies from state to state.

My nephew lives in a small town. There was a fire downtown that destroyed an iconic building. After the fire he took drone pictures of the disaster. Then posted it on the internet. He got nervous because he had not followed all the rules for drone operation. So he took it down. The city contacted him. They had seen the video. They wanted his permission to post it on the city website. It made him mini-famous for a while.

We live in a Rural area, and yes ,quite frankly we do question EVERY car that drives pass our house.

if I am sitting no a jury about someone shot down a drone I am voting not guilty no matter who owns the drone.

Hi Brother, As an Army Veteran, I agree with your observations and would add that for some veterans, especially those with PTSD, a drone is a emotional trigger. This trigger can initiate as survival protocol. Just adding another perspective to your great posts. yes, I am a subscriber of your channel! Great work!

I live in a Rural State and I'm sure that many people would shoot my drone down if I flew it close to their property, so I will have to be careful about where I fly if I decide to order one.

Keep in mind that in United States v. Causby the Supreme Court established private property air rights at somewhere between 83 and 500 feet. In a new case, Boggs v. Merideth, a state court affirmed the private property right of the landowner. That is being appealed through the federal court system but for now it would seem that Cuasby sets the standard for air rights despite what the FAA says.

I own a drone, but if someone flies over my ranch and appears to be spying on me, he will loose his drone. Period

LAW OR NO LAW, IF YOU HAVE A MORE OR LESS PEEPING TOM ABOVE YOUR PRIVATE RESIDENTS, NOT FLYING ACROSS IT BUT HOVERING OVER IT LOOKING, TAKE THAT DROWN DOWN NO MATTER WHAT!

One of the problems we've had in this area is drones being used to "case" property. My town is a rural neighborhood, but, this has also happened in the cities. Someone flies a drone around a property looking for valuable equipment, or vehicles. (lately, they're looking for catalytic converters and figuring a schedule as to when to come take them) I used to fly RC aircraft and LOVED the sport. I can certainly understand the attraction to flying drones, and, frankly, would have a blast. The problem is, like any other... our laws and our ethic haven't caught up to our technology. "Legit" pilots need to be sensitive about the real threat presented by the nefarious pilots. "Nefarious" pilots need to accept their losses.... in equipment, or their freedom. (...and that means PROSECUTING those nefarious pilots, AND their assistants and associates) The general public needs to get it through their collective head that there's a difference.

I was flying my Phantom 4 pro, you can hear that thing a mile away, around my neighborhood getting aerial video and shots of the general area. B roll. Anyway, my neighbor lady came out, pretty upset, asking if I can see through her windows and in her house. She seemed fit to be tied. I told her that would be pretty impossible unless I was hovering right in front of her window and the lighting was just right. She really didn't believe me so I showed her the video footage. She completely changed her tune. She was so impressed with the imagery and realized nothing can be seen inside windows. She's a drone fan now.

During one of my flight training classes, I was flying about 1000 ft AGL when someone crashed their drone into the tailboom of the helicopter. Never seen the thing coming. I made an emergency landing, back at the airport, & checked the damage. There was a nice big dent in the tail boom, right behind the tail rotor, which was also impacted.

I live by a park, and sometimes drones come down in my back yard, it should never be over my property, and I now longer return them as I always did before.

I am a pilot and have nothing against drones. They have a lot of really good uses, some yet to even be discovered. However, I had a very close call with one. I was flying down the Hudson corridor, over the river, west side, at 1000 feet AGL. There are some cliffs nearby so I was closer to those, maybe 550-600 feet. I saw what I thought was a bird but as I passed by it, just several feet from my wing, I saw that it was a good sized black drone, perhaps 2 feet long. I did report it to ATC as a near miss. I can't see how that drone was operating legally as I reviewed flight data and confirmed altitudes. the drone was at least 500 feet horizontally from the cliffs and exactly 1000 feet over the water in a very busy area for GA aircraft. This is very dangerous. Such activity, especially if it results in a midair, will cause perhaps permanent increased restrictions on all drone operators. Another story: the friend I was flying with flies across the country out of Palo Alto. KPAO is right next to a wildlife sanctuary and my friend nearly hit a drone on short final. After he landed he went over to the sanctuary and the drone operator was still there flying right around the airport. He had just gotten the drone and had no idea he couldn't fly wherever he wanted. The local PD educated him and chased him off. Personally, if a drone ends up landing on my property I will feel bad for it and bring it far out into the woods and release it back to nature, like I might do to any injured bird.

I value my privacy! Any camera buzzing over my property is a concern... I've flown model aircraft for 50 years! Rule number one is: never fly over people or others property! idiots with "drones" brake the basic rules all the time! It is rude beyond words.

I fly, but drones getting too close to anyone could be considered an invasion of space. Small drones require no license and could be considered stalking or voyuer, etc. A house should be granted a personal air-space.

As air space is regulated by FAA how can the local police do anything but advise the drone owner not to fly it over a certain Property?

I like drones, and I think they're neat. But I don't want one over my place, ever. I live in rural Arkansas, there isn't a road passing my place, I don't get strange cars here by accident and I don't want a strange drone here. I would probably be in the "ask questions later" category.

Actually I do question vehicles driving by my house. I'm 5 miles off the highway on private roads. And I own the road thru my property. What's needed on both sides of the fence is mutual respect, I respectfully askif they're looking for somebody first, if they pop off with an attitude I let them know they are trespassing on my property, tell them to leave. It's their choice how the interaction goes, I only ramp up the escalation to match their arrogance or stupidity.

You may understand the licensing requirements, but in the municipality where I live they have passed ordinances that ban you from flying over individuals private property without their Express permission. So if you were to fly over someone’s yard and hover and they call the cops… If you haven’t left by the time the cops get there they could give you some harassment over the deal and if you push the issue I’m sure a citation. This is to stop BS like where they caught the guy recently using a drone to film a woman through her second floor bathroom window. This is why people are not keen.

There has been one drone strike on the leading edge left-wing of a commercial airliner and I don’t know the details. I just know I saw it on 74 gear but it didn’t cause significant damage or insignificant damage, even to the leading edge of the wing on the jet, obviously the drone was obliterated, if it had gone through the turbine, there’s a potential for problems but like you said the 1 drone versus a 20 pound Canadian goose I’ll take the drone every time.

I live in an area that is very rural. If I was to place a call to the sheriffat the quickest it would take around fifteen to thirty minutes, dependingon the day and time. In our state if you cross over a posted borderline in a vehicle, on foot, or other conveyance, the land owner can take means to detain till law enforcement arrives. I would consider the downing of a drone as my only means of detainment. There truly are laws that have to be made to address the use of drowns over private properties. Especially since I have never had a jet, prop driven or other flying machines taking photographs or video low enough to identify people who are out and about or to be able film through the windows of houses. A drone is able to do that. I have sited drones recording through my windows twice. The second time it was shot down with a shotgun. If one shows up again the same result will occur. Placed an add in the paper offering to return the drone to the owner if they would come to claim it or give a viable address for its return. Never did get a reply.

I live out in the middle of nowhere my closest neighbor to me is 20 mi away and the closest police station is 20 mi away so if I see a drone flying around my house they are 100% spying on me and they have no business of being anywhere near my property with the Drone so yes I will shoot your drone out of the sky if it's near my house and no cop will drive that far out to my house because of a drone and I had that happen to me about 5 years ago and I shot one out of the sky and I had reported it to police and they said the same thing that person had no business flying one around my house in the absolute middle of nowhere and that who ever it was had to of been on my property just to get the drone to my house and they told me to put up trail cams throughout my property to try and catch someone if it happened again but luckily it's never happened again.

I have a friend with a farm in Canada. His neighbour went drone crazy. My friend started shooting every one of them down. The drone owner called the police who said, "Don't fly drones over your neighbour's property and he won't shoot them down." This was pretty cool, seeing the police in Canada aren't keen on people solving problems with guns.

I avoid flying over private residences, and follow streets when flying in the city/town limits.

I mostly photograph houses for real estate. I have had a couple of people ask “you are not photographing my house are you?” My standard response is not unless you pay me. Keep up your good work.

What would be the reasoning for any drone to be flying within shotgun range(Which isn't far at all) near any home in a rural area. I think this works both ways. I have no problems with drones as long as those who are flying them respect people's privacy. It's alot easier to identify and report a car to the authorities how do you describe a drone that's being controlled a mile away?

I appreciated the informative video. Honestly, regardless of what you say; most people would probably try to cripple a drone in some manner if it were a nuisance. Where I’m from in the South I wouldn’t even risk it. Lol

In the state of Texas, you can file your property as a "no fly zone" with the FAA. It cost like 70 bucks and civilian drones cannot be flown over your property, that being said, law enforcement drones can still fly over your property ( with probable cause). Now, city owned drones for snooping in your backyard to determine property values or see if you have vehicles stored in your backyard, the city must contact you before flying over your property. Generally, 12 days prior notice.

You handled the hospital situation very well. No need to escalate especially when someone is blowing smoke.

..... I was just target practicing on my private property and a drone flew into the line of fire.... Sorry bout your luck 😂

I wear one of those bright vests with "FAA Certified Drone Pilot" on the back which implies that I am more informed about piloting drones than most bystanders. I was wondering if someone has some type of handout that includes answers to typical questions bystanders may have such as is it OK to fly over private property, or is it OK to shoot down a drone. The handout could include QR codes to appropriate FAA web sites to backup what the flyer says.

I think a factor in the "I'll shoot it down" reaction is that the typical would-be shooters feel that they "are only taking an annoying toy from you". UAV blade noise is something that adds to the situation by calling attention to the UAV plus no one thinks the sound of a drone is "pleasant" so they attribute that annoyance to you, the operator .

It ultimately comes down to rules and the rules are a dynamic, moving target that are consistently changing. I have a Mavic Pro that I bought a few years back. I have the remote pilot license and I also have a private pilot's license that I've had for 47 years and I currently own three actual airplanes. I think drones are cool and all but I'm sorry, they don't belong in an urban environment. If you are in your back yard and a drone from an unknown source is flying around or over you with it's 4k video camera it is not a pleasant experience. So my advice to drone enthusiasts is to go out into the woods and don't bug people because otherwise there are just going to be more rules and you won't have justification against them. It's a privacy issue.

When Carlsbad PD got there new drone a few years back and buzzed bedroom windows in the neighborhood for a few weeks I definitely thought about it.

Honestly, I have a pretty private home. I like it that way. I could care less if a drone overflies my house so long at it keeps going and doesn't hover around. Once it starts hovering I have the same issue as someone camping out in my driveway. In the case of the driveway calling the authorities is the SECOND thing I'd do. Trust me you'd hear about it.

Thank you! Being 74 years old, I started my fantastic hobby during Covid. Living in central Florida,the weather is 99% great to fly. I started with a few drones from Snaptain,inexpensive and they came with 2 batteries. My first DJI was a Mini, priced great on Black Friday 2020. Now…yep moved to the MINI 3PRO! Wow..got it a few weeks ago…over 35 flights already..no part 107 yet…but I will. I had almost 200 flights with the first Mini, with no problems, I have a great open area right behind me. Your KZfaq channel is right on the top of my favorite people,Russ! Thanks again! Phil L.

I know this video has been up for a while. I used to like drones but after coming close to being blown up 4 times they make me very nervous if I can’t see who’s flying them. I hope there’s people who have them that can understand.

An exellent video, Education and discussion works much better. I have had an issue where someone confronted me about my drone flying over their property and privacy issues. We had a chat and I offered to show them the footage that I took as I fly over. I put in on my computer screen so we could see all the detail. I asked them to stop the video at amy point and we would zoom in where they thought that I could see them as I flew over. I didn't hover over their place. After much searching they realised that I could see nothing that could be described as an invastion of their privacy. So now I don't have a problem with them at all. I really like your analogy of a car passing in the street and how much they can see compared to stopping in the driveway and taking pictures. Hovering over the top of their place for any period of time is different as pictures could be taken and all my drone footage I was just flying over to get to where I wanted to go. Thanks

Proud of you! My fairly recent story: I was flying DJI drone (Mavic Air 2) from the property I lived on. A nearby neighbor walked over to me and asked me why I was flying it there (where I lived!). I filled him in on some of the regs, told him that I would avoid his property if he felt better that way, etc. He said fine. Then one day I asked him first if I could fly over some outlying property that he owned, and take some pictures of his old barn, and a field that was full of deer. He said fine, just don't be snooping around his house (snooping?). I flew over, and then lowered and elevated the drone, all the while filming this gorgeous old building, and the deer walking around in the field. When I returned he walked over again and then demanded that I let him know precisely when I was going to fly there, and he did not want me snooping around his house (again). He said he'd shoot it down if he saw it anywhere in the sky at this point. I'm not as nice as you, and I can back up what I say if I get angry as well, but I told him fine. Shoot it down. There's a new model out (Mavic 3 then) and I'd be happy to pay for it with his money, that is after he paid a big fine to the FAA, and after he went to court for his illegal act. He walked towards me, cursing, I stood up and just smiled at him. Inevitably he stopped, turned around, and left. Like you I will not try to purposely anger a person, but it's hard for me sometimes. Ex-Army, Ex-MP, Ex-pilot, current drone enthusiast. I do everything I can to relinquish anger today. It's just not wroth it ordinarily.

If you value your drone as much as most people value their privacy you should be considerate of that and you won't have to worry about someone shooting it.

"A good analogy would be, you don't question every vehicle that drives through your property video recording everything, oh wait, you do? Scratch that. Bad analogy. "

I've been into drones since the very beginning. And it is very sad to see the difference between how people feel toward drones now compared to the early days. In the beginning, everyone was extremely excited and intrigued and fascinated with drones. Especially when they got to the point where I could show the perspective real time to people who would stop and ask about it. They would completely flip out with excitement over all of it. Today, there is so much hate out there. You even mentioned drones, and some people get excited, while other people foam at the mouth and growl like dogs, and warned that they will shoot anything down that they see. I guess we can blame some people who would abuse drones. It's always the same no matter what you're into. A small percentage of the participants abused it, and give the rest of us bad reputations.

Your video made me curious. So I looked it up for my state and found this: "California has laws that regulates uncontrolled airspace. In August 2015, the State Assembly passed a law prohibiting drone flights over private property as they are a trespass. According to this legislation, you'll face privacy infringement charges if you fly a drone over personal property without the owner's consent." That being said, it also states that it is illegal to shoot it down or even use a net or jamming device on the drone. The best they could offer was to find the drone owner and ask them to not fly over your house. I assume if they are already flying over your house, they don't see it as a problem and I doubt will comply with your request. Some might I guess. I assume the only recourse would be to call the police and ask for a trespass charge. Which I doubt they will do as its a low level offense. I think as drone usage increases, the rules and regulations to protect privacy will gain traction. I think drones are awesome, but also do not want someone filming in my house through a window. So I think the right to privacy should trump the right to fly a drone over private property.

Best part is if I shoot a drone down its like baiting the operator to come find it

Above 400 ft. (in US) is federal airspace. Below belongs to the property owner. So you can fly below 400 feet without running awry of the FAA, but you are still trespassing if you fly below 400' over private property (without permission).

My question I have is I live in the country and having a neighbor constantly fly his drone over my house even having them hovering about my house at night it bothers me knowing their camera on them I feel creep out knowing he'd watching me and my family at night I don't mine people flying drones but when he has them hovering my house it bothers me and getting out of hand does this every night even got the sheriff involved but still continue I gotta do something

The problem we might have if/when the police get called against us is that they don't know all the laws their supposed to enforce.

I saw a drone over my house. I sent up my drone to say 👋 lol

What if I let my trained hawk have some fun with your drone? Hypothetically.

I'm really surprised that no one seems to be concerned that a drone might be used to surveille your home as part of a plan to break into your home or commit other crimes against you. While it has been discussed quite a lot recently, various government agencies are using drones to monitor what you're doing on your property for agriculture and animal husbandry issues, my first concern is whether I am being cased by thieves or other nefarious individuals.

Good Points. I have my Part 107 license, and a registered commecial drone operator. Having photographed in hospitals (high security/privacy) and in government buildings, I'm aware of personal privacy issues and repsect them. Sounds like the first visit is to the local law enforcement to introduce myself.

First, I agree largely with what you say here, so don't misconstrue the following with a rebuke; it's just a little information. I'm a former USAF maintenance tech and then a govt contractor working in depot/retrofit/enhancement. We did a LOT of repairs on aircraft and it wasn't unusual to pull wings, leading edges, skins, replace stringers, longerons, and other primary and secondary structure. There's a lot of data about FOD damage to aircraft engines and the impact damage on skins and landing gear components. A single washer can cause an engine to shell-out; if it is in the wrong place it can stop an actuator from articulating it's assembly (think landiing gear or flaps/ailerons/rudder). The 'nose' of an aircraft is often a composite material and this houses the radar systems along with other components like LOX tanks, hydraulic lines, electrical lines, and navigational systems, and even some communications systems; a drone struck at 100mph or more could easily rip through a lot of equipment causing a failure.

They turn to confetti flying over my house. I will be the one that ruins your day.........

People are not afraid of the 1000 cameras recording them in their life all day long, but go crazy when a guy is enjoying his drone.

my experience , i was visiting my sister at her cottage and while having tea on the deck of her lakefront cottage a drone dropped in from above and hovered some 60 ft from us watching us for a few seconds and took off. we had no way of nowing who,s drone it was or what was going on. now that is pushing it id say.

The bottom line at the end of the day is just fly respectfully. Do your best if you are going to fly over private property don’t stop and take pictures just buzz by fast and high. This is a very good video there’s a lot of controversy out there for sure. Being a drone pilot I am extremely sensitive to privacy, one time I was flying at the beach and there were some RVs and I was just zooming down the beach doing some shots of just the waves, but this guy came up on me so hard and fast he was ready to go to fight I looked at him and said don’t worry I’m not gonna put the pictures of you and your girlfriend on the Internet. His eyes got his big is silver dollars he walked away.

Yep I almost got arrested for blowing one out the sky over my house. The guy that owned the drone apparently knew of me through sources and he dropped charges and later we became drinking buddies. 😅

I have a DJI mavic mini that I used to fly around my neighborhood. This was just for myself. I have never flown into another’s yard other than flying over at about 200 feet, and not hovering for any significant amount of time. The only thing I tried to avoid was the videoing of children. This is because I was under the impression that it was illegal to do so. Other than that, I’ve had no issues with my neighbors. If someone said not to fly over their property, I would most likely refrain from doing so.

To begin I'm not a drone pilot at this time. I considered buying one and learning to fly but was dissuaded from doing so when I began to learn about the negativity between the general public, and federal rules that apply to flying. While I don't consider myself a "crazy" when it comes to private property, and private air space, I do become incensed when I realize that other than notifying LE authorities, who we all know are going to prioritize my drone complaint below littering, I have essentially no recourse. And here comes maybe just a bit of paranoia, when I say that I think my main opponent is not the FAA but Amazon, Dairy Queen, and the likes, who may think they can commercialize drones to deliver their products. I like your videos because of your levelheadedness and common sense approach to the conflict between pilots and the public. None-the-less I will say that if a drone was found to be loitering low over my property, or doing so more than once, I would be sorely tempted to throw a rock at it. I would not shoot it down because as a gun owner I'm very aware of the dangers of doing that. But I would feel that low altitude presence, or repeated presence, might well be for nefarious reasons. And after reporting it and getting no relief would surely become Anti-Drone. Perhaps one solution other than the one you seem to propose which is that the public should learn to live with drones is that pilots should learn to live with the public, and stay away from private residences.

Great information as always Russ! I’m happy there’s been no mention of remote ID in Canada as of yet. We also have the Drone Pilots Association of Canada which has been making good process with NAV Canada and our equivalent of the FAA.

Hey great job with this! Had initial a couple years ago, had the same feelings about could I disable a drone flying over my house! Glad I didn’t as now I am one of those flyers! LOL Easement is a biggie to know! Great job! Watched another of yours, and I am a permanent fan! Thanks a bunch!🇺🇸

If one flies over our rural place, yeah... I'd be tempted to take a shot at it. The risk would be is if they are streaming, get mad and dox me. Many drone fliers seem very entitled, almost like the 2A nuts.

Kudos to you for handling this as calmly as you did. I had someone actually make the threat to shoot my drone out of the air while I was flying a real estate job. I told to him to absolutely call the cops because if he didn't I would, since he made the threat to shoot it out of the air. The cops came, he got educated and I got to finish flying my mission. There are a lot of dangerously ignorant people out there.

Love the video people get with drones, would probably really enjoy the hobby myself. But if my family was being violated or harassed by one, it would go down. And a gun is not necessary to accomplish this task.

Is it still a FAA rule to maintain line of sight with the drone while it's in flight? I remember reading that when I was getting ready to pilot my drone, but now there are so many places that forbid drones in my area, it's no longer worth it to take it out of the box.

I work security at a constructing zone, and the site at which I work is a no-fly zone. That said, each situation likely has its own rules and restrictions.

I live in the city. A drone came flying over our yard while my wife and I were having some beers on a beautiful day. The thing sat over our house for 10 minutes and I know he, she, it was watching us. Can't shoot it down because of the city limits and firearms. Call the police and tell them that a drone is flying over our house. I wonder how long it would take for an officer, on a nice Saturday afternoon with speeders and drunk drivers and everything else. A drone flying over would take a back seat to everything else. Maybe the guy was casing our yard. We don't live in a high crime area but things do disappear from time to time. Personally, I hate drones with helicopters a close second. I've heard of people buying cheap quad rotors to go up and knock down other drones, kind of a kamikaze anti drone drone.

The best way to run a drone off is with a super bright light with a tight beam. Two different times we have had a drone low over our land and house and both times they were ran off by the light. I have a light made by SureFire called a HellFighter and it's just that, it's like facing a camera at the sun. All you will be doing is keeping the drone from getting and video or photos not forcing it down.

You quoted a number of Statistics. What do you think would be the probability of a police response if call complaining of your drone. My projection: zero! Boom!

In this day and age calling 911 when there is a drone over you with obvious malicious intent is an exercise in futility. Had this happen to me. We had a positive ID of the operator (a known bad guy) and there was no investigation or contact with him. What options are there for defense against casing your property by a drone? The imbalance in the law is frightening.

People who use drones for work such as topography etc it’s understandable. For a person who does it as a Hobby it can be very odd. There are many cases of people using them to look in windows and invade privacy. It’s because of these people that many of us don’t care for these devices. To sum it all up, it’s creepy and often times so are the people operating them. Wouldn’t hurt to get a new Hobby. 👍🏼✌🏼🇺🇸 PS I had a drone fly and hover over my backyard while my wife and I were sitting on our back porch talking. It absolutely felt like an invasion of privacy. Creepy Drone People just stop it.

The problem with the law is that I had someone flying a drone in my back yard viewing into my windows. I live in PA and if someone flies a drone over your property 2 times, without permission, it is trespassing. But to find out who is flying it is almost impossible.

I've seen a few drones taken out by kites that were flying at the beach. They might cut through string, however, Kevlar cord is an entire different animal. And if someone is injured by your drone on the ground the FAA will get involved.

I flew my drone at our nearby park and I was capturing the park’s background that had a postcard material which captured a corn silo near beside the resident’s house. I was not close to the house, I was only taking a capture of a beautiful country view but before I knew it the owner of the house drove and confronted me and told me that if he see me next time flying over his property, he will shoot my drone ( Mavic Mini). I’ve asked around who was the owner of that place and found out that it was a guy who was running for the position in our local government. I got a little offended and sad because of what he said even though I explained to him that I was only doing it because the silo and the house gave a great backdrop from park, but I offered to delete the captures if its going to make him feel better, after I apologized, but left before I could even finish explaining. I was so disgusted and frustrated about his repulsive attitude. One thing I can be sure of, he’s never gonna get my vote! Thanks for sharing your vlog and next time I encounter a similar situation, I hope never again, at least I might be more prepared on what to say and how to say it. More power to you sir!

First timer here. I know nothing about drones. I am rather ambivalent towards the use of them. I have wondered though what the consequences could be for shooting one down. Thus I really appreciated your objective, factual presentation.

Thanks Russ for the information. What I do is ask my neighbors for permission to fly over their house. I have not had one say no, lucky I guess. Some have asked me the shoot an overhead picture of their house, they wanted to see what their house looked like from above.

If I find random junk flying or hovering over my house its gonna eat some buckshot

We went through this when cellphones first became affordable. I know people that were in fights in restaurants over talking on a phone. Look now, when don't you see someone on their phone.

I think you made some great points. I’ve been into Surface R/C vehicles for 25 years and I just recently started looking into buying a nice drone. However with that said…I’m on 10 acres in northern Wisconsin with old retired guys around me. So if there’s a drone over my property. It’s coming down. Not saying how, not saying when. Just that it’s not making it home. As far as calling the police… Police in these situations are largely worthless. Even if they do track down the owner and that person admits to flying in the vicinity. There’s literally nothing they can do other than say “ that guy didn’t like that”. Which for some flip flop wearing guys might be enough to prevent it from ever happening again. But in most situations that would only provoke further, non punishable, offenses by the operator. In any rural area, like mine, the police are probably not gonna care if you take down a drone. And I can assure you that they would probably take your side and ask the drone operator “why were you flying over his property in the first place?” But on the off chance they do care, I can promise you our police department of 4 officers has ZERO ability to get any more information than I can. Especially long after the sighting occurs…

This last season my buddy was finding dead crops in odd spots on his farm so we installed 2 cameras on his silo and 1 on an old HAM radio tower. Sure enough drones were being flown nightly over his land and right about where the crops seem to be dying. About a week later he called me over and sure enough there were 2 drones he picked off in the middle of his field that had cloth pouches fixed to them on one end and a claw type on the other and the pouches contained soil with bollworm and aphids from what he said. The drones that I've seen in the past have identifying markings and these had nothing which by regulation they need to in Minnesota. After the 2 he downed we haven't seen a single one since.