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[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 29 points 3 days ago (1 children)

To shine a different light on this, governments prohibiting drone flights has a political use as well. In Hungary, a tool the government uses to misrepresent attendance of popular opposition events is to fly a police drone and picture the event before it starts, to have a picture with fewer people than actually attending. It then prohibits flying drones to take any conflicting photo, then pays US social media firms to put their footage in all their ads.

I still think you should get a license and registration for these, but free flight zones should exist below 500 feet that only require declaration of intent to fly and maybe ADSB in/out.

[–] IsoKiero@sopuli.xyz 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I assumed that our (Finland) rules are EU wide, but apparently there's some differences. In here, if you're flying a drone with a camera, you'll need a registration and license (~30€/year, online course) which grants you "free flight" below 120 meters. But there's exclusions around airports, military and some government locations, nearby country borders and things like that which make sense. Also if you're having a bigger event you can request a no-fly zone above it for various reasons (safety mostly but it's possible to get that to stop non-event managed drone footage as well). And with camera you also need to pay attention for privacy, but that's no different than carrying an DSLR, like it's illegal to take photos trough your neighbors bedroom window no matter what kind of camera you use. Other rules dictate that you can't fly over crowds and other reasonable safety measures.

At least my DJI won't even attempt to fly on these zones unless I spesifically get a permit from local authorities and send a copy to them to revoke the zone on my profile.

[–] crt0o@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 3 days ago (2 children)

What do you even do if you get a fine like that? Die? That shit is life ruining...

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 6 points 2 days ago

It's called a mortgage.. Mort...life ruining yeah.

[–] Thalion@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 days ago

Never go back to Spain

[–] venusaur@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Definitely wrong on the tourist’s part, especially if flying over a crowd of people (never know when you’re going to have a failsafe), but that’s a huuuuge penalty.

[–] womjunru@lemmy.cafe 4 points 3 days ago

That they won’t ever pay.

[–] Quilotoa@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That's pretty high, but they are mighty annoying.

[–] takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Drones aren't that annoying when they are pretty high.

[–] Quilotoa@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 days ago

Unfortunately, most of the people flying drones do it at a height where the annoying buzz disturbs the people below.

[–] theUwUhugger@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

british

Justified

Never a bad time to start a fiber optic build.

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Are there no kite flying zones?

[–] prex@aussie.zone 1 points 2 days ago