Michael Hartley Loc: Deer Capital of Georgia

We've had a lot of rain the last couple of weeks. Got a lot of trash washing down the rivers. The trash stops here. Lake Jackson, GA

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Michael Hartley Loc: Deer Capital of Georgia

Here's a drone view of the dam a couple days earlier, a neighbor took. He just did a short flyover, that was his Christmas present, and didn't want to crash it in the river.

http://www.facebook.com/zachary.edmonds.56/videos/1091529880860292/

RichardQ Loc: Colorado

A prime example of the potential provided in drone photography. Nice work

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denoferth Loc: Portsmouth, NH

Increasingly, flying even a hobby grade quad (which incidentally has as much in common with a “drone” as an AR-15 has to a M-16) will attract unwanted attention. News service helicopter pilots justifiably terrified about job security, busy-body soccer moms with way too much time on their hands, park service Nazis and even local Barney Fife wannabies with no federal enforcement authority whatsoever increasingly feel it their God-given right to accost you. The sensational publicity given to a few criminally stupid quad owners flying out of first person sight using onboard cameras reported breathlessly by media talking heads has whipped up an increasingly more ignorant public into another global warming-like/ocean rising mindless panic. Predictably knee-jerk politicians and “outa be a law” proponents galvanized the FAA who as usual enacted inept laws to make such photography federal crimes. Now the FAA has even gone against the wishes of congress and decided we have to register ALL model aircraft “controlled from the ground” (and pay a fee of course) weighing more than half a pound as “drones”. Does anyone realize this probably means the government agency responsible for air safety in America is actually too stupid to tell the difference between a “drone” and a model airplane? The big difference, and it really is a big difference, is we have to fly our models close enough to us to see them in order to control them. We can see and avoid full size aircraft even when they come down to watch us. People who operate camera-equipped quads out of direct sight using first person view (fpv) don’t have the capability to detect a full size aircraft bearing down on them so the possibility of a collision exists. So what you’re seeing is an out of control government again “fundamentally changing America” this January by attacking model airplanes and , yes, private ownership of firearms as well. How have you let it come to this?

creativ simon Loc: Coulsdon, South London

Guess it does :-D

denoferth Loc: Portsmouth, NH

Seems a resourceful fellow could come up with a barge-type craft with a conveyor belt contraption on the front to scoop up the floating trash and deposit it on-board. Harvesting cranberries comes to mind. I imagine if there was any money to be made from recycling the plastic trash somebody would have done it already?

Michael Hartley Loc: Deer Capital of Georgia

Georgia Power owns this lake. They've got the equipment to take care of the trash.