Do You Want Unmanned Drones Flying Overhead?
SodaHead News
2010/06/15 03:00:00
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They’re already used for remote killing and spying on Taliban commanders in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq, so why shouldn’t the Federal Aviation Administration open up the skies over the U.S. to unmanned drone aircraft?
According to the Associated Press, the FAA has been asked to issue flying permits for a variety of pilotless planes to carry out civilian actions like gathering data on tornadoes and monitoring energy pipelines as well as police functions like tracking fleeing suspects, taking pictures of speeding cars’ license plates and patrolling the Mexican and Canadian borders for illegal immigrants and drugs.
The FAA’s reluctant, though, afraid that the unmanned drones might crash into cargo planes, airliners and corporate jets at high altitudes, or hot air balloons and helicopters closer to the ground. It also worries about loss of communication and the lack of warning systems and transponders.
The pilot-free aircraft have their advantages: they come in a variety of sizes, from jumbo jet to tiny ones that could fit through a window and they can do the dangerous, dirty jobs humans would rather avoid. Plus, they cost less to keep in the air than piloted planes.
The FAA promised antsy Defense Department and Homeland Security officials it would have a plan in place this year but it is still working on regulations for unmanned aircraft.
Do you think the FAA should allow pilotless aircraft in our skies?
According to the Associated Press, the FAA has been asked to issue flying permits for a variety of pilotless planes to carry out civilian actions like gathering data on tornadoes and monitoring energy pipelines as well as police functions like tracking fleeing suspects, taking pictures of speeding cars’ license plates and patrolling the Mexican and Canadian borders for illegal immigrants and drugs.
The FAA’s reluctant, though, afraid that the unmanned drones might crash into cargo planes, airliners and corporate jets at high altitudes, or hot air balloons and helicopters closer to the ground. It also worries about loss of communication and the lack of warning systems and transponders.
The pilot-free aircraft have their advantages: they come in a variety of sizes, from jumbo jet to tiny ones that could fit through a window and they can do the dangerous, dirty jobs humans would rather avoid. Plus, they cost less to keep in the air than piloted planes.
The FAA promised antsy Defense Department and Homeland Security officials it would have a plan in place this year but it is still working on regulations for unmanned aircraft.
Do you think the FAA should allow pilotless aircraft in our skies?
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"He who would trade liberty for some temporary security, deserves neither liberty nor security." - Benjamin Franklin -
That's because a pilot license is a privileged right of passage for the well-established vey wealthy, and socially prominent members of American society. Now that American life has adapted to Federal flight restrictions, unmanned aircraft patrolling our skies is feasible. I'm surprised there haven't been any UMA sitings recently.
Newer military technologies have ways of becoming part of law enforcement's arsenal in timely enough fashion as it is. However, this Spy/Drone technology comes at an extremely high monetary cost that most municipalities would never be able to afford. Where I live, we're barely able to pay for the single Sherrif's Deputy that's on duty or even the electricity to keep Henderson Countie's single traffic light burning at 3a.m..
Invasion of personal privacy is another issue to concern one's self with. I will resist any thought of Big Brother having a permanant spy in the sky.
I don't trust the goverment not to misuse the techology.
My time in sevice was before/during/after the 1980 Ambassy takeover.
Semper-Fi
With all of your military experience and know how related to these aerial spy machines, you also admit to knowing how to utilize these systems in an abusive manner?
18 of these 82 dead were under the age of 10 years. Collateral damage?
P.S. Semper Fi and thanks for serving
Why do you think people want to freak out about UAVs all that much anyway?
Thanks a lot.
Its funny If I layed out my planed career path's a lot of the paranoids and conspiracy theorist would hate me.
AFROTC at Embry Riddle Aeronautical University:
Majoring in either Aerospace engineering or home land secuirty with a focus on terrorism
Air Force: I want to work as an FCO on one of the J model gunships they'll be pumping out in the next few years.
If I don't go career air force. I'll either look for a job with a aerospace defense contract designing air or spaced based military systems, or doing something counter terror related with either the government or a private firm. Depending on my major.
But to what extent, (roundup)?
Trade Freedom for Security? very bad idea, bad bad bad
slipery slope
Sodapop is views & opinon, Banter, give & take stuff.
Sodapop don't have talking heads as the tv did, least this way regular people can ingage.
And since u did say commiting crimes, I suppose the drones really would have helped over the ACORN bunch. That it would have mattered, the ACLU bunch woulda been right there to discredit anyways.
Now as far as the hat goes, no ty, I got my dads deer slayer hat.
If installed with transponders and successfully integrated into our airspace, it wouldn't be to bad.
I can see them becoming extremely common in the next 30 years.