No "drones" allowed in Yosemite

F*#k those people and their goddamned toys. Should be hard time Federal offense to be caught flying anywhere near commercial aircraft, and all these machines should be required to have a transponder and unique code to be built in so they can be tracked.

That's outrageous.

This from a WSJ article

The FAA says the advent of drones has extended “navigable airspace”—and thus the FAA’s authority—down to the ground. As long as private drones don’t endanger people, the agency says, they can legally hover just above private property in the U.S. The agency added that many states and cities have “noise and nuisance” laws they can use to prosecute drone users who fly over private property.

Those safety requirements would limit commercial drone flights to below 500 feet, during daytime hours and within sight of the operator. Notably, the proposed rule would also ban flying commercial drones near airports or over people not involved in the drone’s flight.

“From a personal property aspect, when are your property rights being violated? An inch above your property? Yeah, you probably own that,” Geiger said. “Thirty feet above your property? We’re not sure. What counts as reasonable as more and more UAS fill the sky – in tens and hundreds of thousands, which is what we predict in the coming decades - what counts as reasonable will probably shrink.”

Massie had his own suggestion: “Maybe the floor is the range of a 12-gauge with number six shot in it.”

I wonder if they were forced to do that or did it on their own?