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  • Do they even fly over the private land or next to it?   It seems with the 20x or so soom on that camera they likely never are over the private land.. but we assume they do

  • Yep, definitely not "hunters".  

    Ken, your statements are completely incorrect.  UAV's are supposed to stay under 400 feet, precisely because manned-aircraft are supposed to stay above that.  And for sure property owners do not "own" the airspace up to 500 feet above their propertly.  This has been hashed out many times before. 

  • How is it not in the 'hobby' category?   They are keeping LOS it appears, under 400 feet and they are not getting paid (commercial use) for their flights.   As far I can tell, this is not at all a commercial activity that would violate the main FAA rules.

    The flying over / near private property is problematic but then again you don't own the space ABOVE your private property.. and for that matter you don't own what is under it either.

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    I'm having some difficulty seeing how these flights conform to current FAA rules. This is clearly not hobby activity. So where is the COA? It seems to me that there is more law-breaking documented here than the activists intended. I cannot say that I like the FAA rules any more than I care for the behavior of those captured on film here, but it seems to me that this sort of unauthorized and antagonistic (not to mention unnecessary; a pole camera would work just fine) use of a multirotor UAV is damaging to the interests of this community.
  • Not hunting.

  • That has nothing to do with hunting. Shooting birds being released for the pure sake of killing something would give idiots a bad name.  

  • I know how you can take video and put it into whatever context you want to prove your point but based on the actual setup and configuration of the shoots it is just totlaly unacceptable.  That's not hunting thats just shooting fish in a barrel.

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    Political or not, the video shows inhumane treatment of animals, and the actions of those caught in video are total unacceptable.

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