These Are the Companies the FAA Has Sent notices To For Using Drones 136
Daniel_Stuckey writes "Just as soon as the Minnesota-based Lakemaid Beer company excited everyone by delivering beer to ice fisherman with drones, the Federal Aviation Administration ruined their fun by demanding that they cease operations. But Lakemaid isn't the only company that's been harassed by the agency. Since 2012, the agency has sent official notices to 13 companies for the commercial use of drones."
In Soviet America... (Score:0, Insightful)
Government tells YOU what you can do.
Soon Slashdot can serve ads to drones! (Score:5, Insightful)
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I don't care, I'm still free. (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:The Slashdot slant. (Score:4, Insightful)
On average four or five ice fishing deaths occur in North America every winter, usually the result of a combination of thin ice, too much booze and not enough brains.
Too many people expend too much effort saving such few people.
It's NOT a drone! (Score:5, Insightful)
The hexacopter is great, but it's a radio-controlled device. You can do first-person-view (FPV) stuff with it but it's still 100% controlled by a human. That's not a drone.
WAIT, BEFORE YOU SAY "WHO CARES", RC helicopters up to 400ft are not regulated by the FAA. That means the FAA lacks authority to do so. The beer thing is a fun gag. HOAX if you prefer. The hexacopter can lift almost 4lbs, and a six-pack weighs 4.5lbs. It wasn't real. The GPS coordinates... also not real. It's a gag. A gimmick. An advertisement for some future product. Didn't happen.
The point of this is.
1. The FAA has no authority over RC stuff.
2. Drone/UAS means there's nobody controlling it. That's not the case here.
3. A six pack of beer is a great thing, but it's too heavy for even a hexacopter.
Ehud :)
helicopter pilot (the real kind, 1 R44, and about 7 electrical RC and 1 nitro methane RC