That didn’t happen. I’ll tell you why it didn’t happen for several reasons.
First and foremost, you simply do not snipe drones out of the air like that. First off it’s illegal to do so. You cannot shoot a drone out of the air just because you’re unhappy about it. Even if a law was broken it’s up to the civil aviation authorities of the country where it happened to find the person responsible and deal with it.
Secondly it’s simply not going to be practical. It may make sense for someone who is used to the rules of Hollywood movies, but it’s not going to work in reality. The drone is too small and potentially moving too fast. And the biggest problem with the story is you simply do not fire arcing shots up into the sky. You don’t do that with any gun, but you especially do not do it with a rifle. Because those shots come back down again and when they’re shot like that you don’t know where they’re coming down. People get hit by them. If this actually happened then Mace Windu there just announced that they committed a firearms violation. Even if they could actually be guaranteed of hitting it on the first shot, and they cannot, I don’t care what you think you can do in a video game, the shot is most likely to go straight through and continue out the other side because of the lightweight construction of these things.
It’s not at all certain that the drone was even operating illegally. This doesn’t seem to be widely understood but a private landowner does not own the air above their land.
As far as commercial protection from drone overflights, there’s only really two kinds. You can’t fly drones over sports stadiums on game day, and Disney world famously has a no-fly zone where you can’t fly either manned or unmanned aircraft.
This isn’t to say that there are no other restrictions, it’s just that “using a camera drone to take a blurry picture of a superhero costume which will likely be replaced by computer graphics anyway” is not a forbidden activity. If it’s flown too far away from the operator so that the operator cannot see it anymore, that’s illegal. If it’s flown over people in most circumstances, especially with a long-range camera drone, that’s illegal. And it’s illegal to use it to peek into Windows to see things that wouldn’t be visible from publicly accessible land.
But does anyone else remember when the hype was building for the Disney generation Star Wars trilogy? Someone flew over the studio in England and took a picture of the Millennium Falcon.
It’s trendy to hyperfocus on drones. They are an interesting technology that allows private citizens a capability that used to cost much more to achieve. But don’t forget that all it would take is a marvel fan with a private pilot’s license to fly a single engine Cessna over the studio and take the same pictures. These camera drones make it easier, but they don’t do anything that wasn’t already possible.
Comments for Report: Disney Shot Down Spy Drone With Snipers
Dylan Tindall
It is a no fly zone. So things like that can be expected
Nomad
That didn’t happen. I’ll tell you why it didn’t happen for several reasons.
First and foremost, you simply do not snipe drones out of the air like that. First off it’s illegal to do so. You cannot shoot a drone out of the air just because you’re unhappy about it. Even if a law was broken it’s up to the civil aviation authorities of the country where it happened to find the person responsible and deal with it.
Secondly it’s simply not going to be practical. It may make sense for someone who is used to the rules of Hollywood movies, but it’s not going to work in reality. The drone is too small and potentially moving too fast. And the biggest problem with the story is you simply do not fire arcing shots up into the sky. You don’t do that with any gun, but you especially do not do it with a rifle. Because those shots come back down again and when they’re shot like that you don’t know where they’re coming down. People get hit by them. If this actually happened then Mace Windu there just announced that they committed a firearms violation. Even if they could actually be guaranteed of hitting it on the first shot, and they cannot, I don’t care what you think you can do in a video game, the shot is most likely to go straight through and continue out the other side because of the lightweight construction of these things.
It’s not at all certain that the drone was even operating illegally. This doesn’t seem to be widely understood but a private landowner does not own the air above their land.
As far as commercial protection from drone overflights, there’s only really two kinds. You can’t fly drones over sports stadiums on game day, and Disney world famously has a no-fly zone where you can’t fly either manned or unmanned aircraft.
This isn’t to say that there are no other restrictions, it’s just that “using a camera drone to take a blurry picture of a superhero costume which will likely be replaced by computer graphics anyway” is not a forbidden activity. If it’s flown too far away from the operator so that the operator cannot see it anymore, that’s illegal. If it’s flown over people in most circumstances, especially with a long-range camera drone, that’s illegal. And it’s illegal to use it to peek into Windows to see things that wouldn’t be visible from publicly accessible land.
But does anyone else remember when the hype was building for the Disney generation Star Wars trilogy? Someone flew over the studio in England and took a picture of the Millennium Falcon.
It’s trendy to hyperfocus on drones. They are an interesting technology that allows private citizens a capability that used to cost much more to achieve. But don’t forget that all it would take is a marvel fan with a private pilot’s license to fly a single engine Cessna over the studio and take the same pictures. These camera drones make it easier, but they don’t do anything that wasn’t already possible.
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