re: My neighbor just bought a drone

This thing might take more than water to get down. A buddy of mine has one and that thing is fricking badass. Goes about 35 mph top speed and can get up to 5 miles away. If it goes out of range it simply just hovers and returns to the original take off location. I think op has cause to frick it up though. No reason to be looking at kids and wife.

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Rule #1 It's not against the law to photograph or film you/wife or kids while outside your home.

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Not even if they are in the backyard still on their private property?

That doesn't seem accurate to me.

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I am genuinely curious to know about air rights in this situation too?

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Me, too. IDK who, if any one, controls air space at such low levels.

It was only an issue for my neighbor bc he was using the drone to fly over and possibly record what was happening on private property where we had a reasonable expectation of privacy in our back yard. Wonder if that would change if a neighbor's 2nd story window was close enough to see into our yard.

I would assume only above private property would be illegal, right?


Flying over a street would be public and fine?

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Wonder if that would change if a neighbor's 2nd story window was close enough to see into our yard.

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I don't think you have a reasonable expectation of privacy if all they are just looking out of their own window

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LA Video Voyerism Law

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and it is for a lewd or lascivious purpose;

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It would be up to the neighbor to say he wasn't going to use pics of kids swimming and the OPs wife in a bathing suit as explicit.

With kids involved that's not a battle I would be willing to take on just to fly my drone around.

Yeah. IDK about that & would love to know the answer. Our PD approached it as a peeping tom situation and didn't address air space. It probably helped that we called together our of curiosity. If he flies it over my yard again while the kids are swimming, ill let you know what they say. It was a curiosity the 1st time. I won't.laugh if it happens again.

You need the slingshot version of chain shot that they used to cut up rigging on big sailing ships back in the day. Take two pellets and figure out some way to attach fishing line to both so that when it fires it will hold onto them both. Put maybe 6-8" of line between them and now you've got a much better chance of hitting the thing, and if you do hit it, he's going down.

I'm thinking spider wire fishing line, two steel pellets, some duct tape and super glue and you're probably good to go. Would be fun to figure it out and if you ever did take him down, well, good luck, but it would be interesting.

Ball bearings with a 1mm hole drilled through them. Fishing line knotted through the hole.

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The cameras on the majority of these things are next to useless.

Unless you're spending 1000's of dollars, the video looks like a 2002 phone camera video held by an epileptic.

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From someone who has a quadcopter and flies it daily I would have to disagree. Most of them are going to be carrying a go pro that shoots 1080p video and 12 mp stills which is more then enough to capture details.

As far as where he can and can't fly is still up in the air because the FAA has not come up with any specific rules and regulations for multi rotor copters. It may not be illegal to fly over someone else's yard but it is a great way to lose an expensive piece of equipment. That being said, unless your neighbor is really that stupid he probably thought your wife and kid would think it was just a cool toy and wanted to show off.

As far as taking it down, they are pretty damn resilient. The nerd football, and net would both work but like another poster said these things are fast. They will do 30moh with ease and can climb 20ft per second so its not likely that it will be an easy task.