A message, in a bottle
"The crackdown brings rules governing recreational drones in line with those that apply to commercial ones, and follows industry concerns about mid-air collisions and laws that some pilots said effectively had allowed “open skies for drones”.
All well and good – but;
CASA - “The changes make the safety requirements clearer for people flying drones and will make the rules easier to enforce.”
Enforce ? Golly -by whom and how, we wonder?
The Oz – “The crackdown brings rules governing recreational drones in line with those that apply to commercial ones, etc.
‘Crackdown’ is stretching it a bit too far ain’t it. OK CASA have beefed up the rules, but that is about as far as they go, in any practical sense. Will the ‘new’ rules stop the rogues and the idiots? Will the new rules identify the same and bring them to a prosecution? Will the defence lawyers be able to wriggle around the ‘rules’ and demonstrate that paper tigers can be burned? For example, how will CASA prove that a drone was within 28 meters of ‘people not involved’, rather than the mandated 30 meters.
The problem with messages in bottles is that the tide will usually bring ‘em back ashore – a bit further up the beach; it’s the desperate, last gasp attempt of some unfortunate survivor of a boat wreck. It is more a gesture of hope and a little more practical than praying for divine intervention. CASA could have saved the ink and got the refund on the bottle. Until the Senate committee come up with a ‘plan’ the CASA crackdown is just another Sleepy Hollow generated crack up. Aye well, thanks for the laugh boys.
Toot – toot.
"The crackdown brings rules governing recreational drones in line with those that apply to commercial ones, and follows industry concerns about mid-air collisions and laws that some pilots said effectively had allowed “open skies for drones”.
All well and good – but;
CASA - “The changes make the safety requirements clearer for people flying drones and will make the rules easier to enforce.”
Enforce ? Golly -by whom and how, we wonder?
The Oz – “The crackdown brings rules governing recreational drones in line with those that apply to commercial ones, etc.
‘Crackdown’ is stretching it a bit too far ain’t it. OK CASA have beefed up the rules, but that is about as far as they go, in any practical sense. Will the ‘new’ rules stop the rogues and the idiots? Will the new rules identify the same and bring them to a prosecution? Will the defence lawyers be able to wriggle around the ‘rules’ and demonstrate that paper tigers can be burned? For example, how will CASA prove that a drone was within 28 meters of ‘people not involved’, rather than the mandated 30 meters.
The problem with messages in bottles is that the tide will usually bring ‘em back ashore – a bit further up the beach; it’s the desperate, last gasp attempt of some unfortunate survivor of a boat wreck. It is more a gesture of hope and a little more practical than praying for divine intervention. CASA could have saved the ink and got the refund on the bottle. Until the Senate committee come up with a ‘plan’ the CASA crackdown is just another Sleepy Hollow generated crack up. Aye well, thanks for the laugh boys.
Toot – toot.