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Originally posted by waynos
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Originally posted by Mike_A
CH, your posts can be interesting but please can you be a bit more concise? I mean that was nearly 1000 words and I can’t actually see any over-reaching point that’s being made, just bits and pieces that don’t quite connect. I’m tired so maybe I’m just being a bit dense but in less than 200 words can you say what you actually mean?
Originally posted by Mike_A
Well I don’t mean to cause offence I just didn’t think there was a full or really detailed picture in that post at all. He touched on one or two different related points, a few unrelated ones, and a few wrong ones but didn’t really make any point that I could see.
Can you tell me what his point was? It looks like he’s saying that regulating UAV flight is all bureaucratic garbage but I didn’t want to make that assumption.
Originally posted by Mike_A
Please don’t get upset about it, all I want is clarification as based on what I know his posted didn’t quite connect. I didn’t say he didn’t know what he was talking about or that it was nonsense just that I didn’t think it was presented in the most easy to understand way.
If he was as you suggest saying that this is all about those in power retaining control, it just doesn’t make sense based on what was said.
For example the first point and the subsequent four were somewhat arbitrary.
While the first three were correct in a limited way they are not applicable across the board; while some types of UAVs could certainly operate in ad hoc restricted airspace and just warn other airspace users that isn’t going to work in every case.
Similarly not every UAV will be able to just “ring a bell” to warn the operator to change a waypoint. Number 4 was just plain wrong in my opinion, I don’t know about where CH lives but when I go outside and look up I’m pretty much guaranteed to see some form of aircraft, we get everything from airliners to police helicopters to private aircraft flying around here at all times of day and no I’m not near any airfield.
But in the end none of those points said anything about why ASTRAEA is an attempt for this nefarious minority to retain control.
ASTRAEA (which is what the topic is about) was set up broadly to define the technologies required to allow UAVs to operate safely and the regulations needed to make sure that these safety measures are implemented properly. Why is this a bad thing?
On the two contradictory statements I didn’t find them contradictory at all, one was about the need to regulate UAV use and the second was about the willingness of the general public to be flown around by a computer (yes I know that’s virtually what happens already but that’s besides the point, it’s about perception not reality).
Arbitrary because you do not see any relationship between the issues or arbitrary becuase there can not be any?