Drones, TheRIGHT way, and the WRONG way!

You're  inside your house playing a harpsichord, and all of the sudden, one of your friend who comes over every once in a while who's been there for about an hour comes into your harpsichord room and says, "Hey, James, there's a Drone hovering over your propperty, over your house and It's just hovering there, and I see what looks like a camera on the drone! It's been there for about five minutes, and It appears that It's possibly trying to spy on you. I don't know where the owner is!"

You have just finished playing "Capriccio, BWV 992," and so you get up from your harpsichord, and you go out to see what in the world is happening, and sure enough, There's a drone hovering over your propperty, not moving, just hovering. Now You're  quite a bit ticked off. 

"Why in the world would somebody be hovering over your propperty, just hovering there, not moving, not doing anything except just hovering there?"

"What is this thing doing here?" you ask yourself!

You're not very pleased right now, and you look around to try to find the drone's operator but you see no such man in sight.

You decide to take matters into your own hands, and so you go grab your gun that you have a license for owning, and you carefully aim, and FIRE at the drone after making sure that there are no people in the way of where you're about to shoot. You shout, "CLEAR," and FIRE!!

The first and only shot hits the drone, and it falls to the ground nowhere near where anybody is standing, considering there's nobody in sight of the area where You're located. After the drone has fallen, you put your gun away, and go out and there are several people who are now on the propperty next to  your house, and they got the drone, and when you come out they say, "Are you the person who shot down our drone that we were flying?" You say, "Yes, I am, and I'll tell you one thing,  I'm not sorry I did this either, because your drone was HOVERING OVER MY PROPPERTY!!!!

The next thing you know you're being arrested. Why? Because you shot down Somebody's drone that was hovering, WHERE?

OVER YOUR PROPPERTY!!!

This drone was hovering over your yard and  you're thinking something along the lines of, "Is that camera activated, and is it being used to spy on me?"

Here's what I think about drones. They are EXTREMELY EXTREMELY AWESOME, IF used PROPPERLY, and if used with EXTREME CAUTION.

If you're going to go into a large field and practice flying your drone away from other people unless your friends are with you, then with them,  well that's OK.

If you're going to use it to spy on somebody, or you're untrained and you're using it carelessly, there's a problem, and a BIG problem. There's a HUGE issue, because  It's just like recording somebody without them knowing it. There are certain reasons that might be something you have to do.  I hope you're never in that kind of situation where you have to do that, but you might find yourself facing that kind of situation. But if you're going around recording people just because you want to do it, It is WRONG, especially if they don't know it.

You can't just take your own drone and say, "Oh, I wonder what we can see over here where there's a house and well, there's gotta be something good going on here!" That's WRONG. 

If you have the person's permission, and they are OK with it, SURE, you can go right ahead and do it after getting at least ORAL, but even better, WRITTEN Permission. I'm not saying you have to go composing a huge consent form stating all of the risks of the flight and stating every single detail about what's going to happen, and what could happen whilst you take your drone and hover it over somebody's house, butseriously, just randoml taking your own drone and spying on somebody's own propperty, that is NOT YOUR own propperty, I feel is WRONG, and yeah, whilst shooting the drone down is dangerous, because not only are there guns involved, but the drone could fall and hit somebody. To solve the gun issue, I'd recommend using NON-LETHAL devices like paintball gun, or something less likely to do damage and even better, I'd recommend NOT SHOOTING down the thing, but I can understand where the KY man who was arrested after doing so came from.

As much as I love drones and stuff, there's right ways to use these new tools and there's wrong ways to use them. As the drone's operator, this is very important to keep in mind.

YOU, the drone's operator need to keep in mind that as that drone belongs to YOU, you as it's owner, are COMPLETELY responsible for it's use and It's  where abouts. When flying your drone, you must be able to see it's location at all times, or if you have visual problems and you actually have a drone keep a responsible friend with you to help you guide it safely, and before You take it on any flights, I recommend performing a few safety checks just as they do in the medical field. Before they put somebod on Cardiopulmonary bypass, they check the circuit, they check the machines, the monitors, the Heater/Cool, they verify Heparin and Protamine are prepared, and ready they evaluate for any risks that look like they could occur prior to, during, and after the initiation of Bypass! They verify that everything is propperly connected and organized.

In the anesthesia field, anesthesia machines undergo daily checks to make sure they are ready for use, and that everything on this machine is propperly functioning. They perform checks on the monitors, the circuit, the pipelines, the tanks, the ventilator, and the manual ventilation system.  They eprform checks on the readiness of medications, including emergency medications.

The same should go with you drone. You should  verify that your rotars are propperly attached and that the battery is propperly in place, you verify that your controller is in CONTINUOUS communication whilst you are operating the drone, and you verify that you zero the drone so that in the event things start to go wrong, you can quickly bring that drone back to where it first took off! You verify that your drone's controller is propperly charged and that you can see the screen well should it have a screen on board the controller! 

Next you verify that where you're going to fly it is free of people that could be injured if the thing were to become out of control, or if  something were to go wrong. You verify that your safety as well as other's safety is PUT FIRST!! SAFETY ALWAYS COMES FIRST.

You verify that the drone is completely ready and that you are completely ready in the event that things don't go quite as planned. You verify everything that you can, and then, ONLY THEN, do you fly the thing.

If you do find a drone hovering over your propperty well it's highly likely that you weren't asked permission. There are several means to take this situation into your own hands.

If you have some type of object and the drone is close enough, you can throw a ball or something to knock it down, OR you could call law enforcement and ask them to come take a look at this, but then by the time they have arrived, the drone may already be gone.

I honestly recommend you use something NON-LETHAL to take this thing down, unless you can find the operator quickly, then Don't use anything, and try to talk to THEM about this situation first of all.  

That doesn't always work out as planned, but at least PRAY that it does, because if you can avoid coming in contact with the drone with any objects, It's a GREAT idea to do so.

Not too much longer from today, I'm going to be flying a drone, and I can feel the heat from the event, because It's VERY close. When I fly this drone, I'll have people watching me, and guiding me as I'm actually flying it. I'll be under continuous monitoring, and will be very very cautious, whilst I'll be PROFOUNDLY EXCITED. I'll be flying it and  possibly Singing the Melody to the Postillion's Post Horn, but all the while, I'll be fully aware of what I'm doing, and obviously, whilst I'll be profoundly excited with tanks of excitement flooding my system, I will keep my excitement from going into my operation of the drone.

This means I'll keep my excitement from interfering whilst I actually have the controls of this drone in my hands.

Just thinking about the upcoming event makes me VERY VERY happy!! Beyond description! I know it's coming, and It's coming in VER QUICKLY!

Well Here I have gone again, DRONING on about Drones.

I hope that you all have a WONDERFUL day, and that God blesses you more than you had ever imagined.

Remember people, ONLY HE, can love you PERFECTLY!!!!!!!!!!