"Jonathan Harper" (jbh) 02/12/2015 at 15:43 • Filed to: None

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RC plane flying from yesterday, after I got yelled at for flying my quadcopter, this fellow was allowed to fly his much faster moving, much less GPS stabilized, thing.

PushToStart > Jonathan Harper 02/12/2015 at 15:47

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Why would you get yelled at for flying a quadcopter out there? It's a huge, non-residential open area, whoever had a problem with that must have a stick up their ass...

Brian Silvestro > Jonathan Harper 02/12/2015 at 15:47

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/paid to drone professionally

/gets yelled at

/guy takes out recreational flying device that ISN'T a drone

/is allowed to

Jonathan Harper > PushToStart 02/12/2015 at 16:04

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I tend to agree. But I also frequent this park and don't want to get a bad rep.

Jonathan Harper > Brian Silvestro 02/12/2015 at 16:05

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the professional bit wouldn't have helped, it's also not allowed to shoot any kind of commercial photo/video in the park without a permit.

AKA I'm an art student just making art projects...always

aberson Bresident of the FullyAssed Committe > Jonathan Harper 02/12/2015 at 16:18

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the problem is that "drones" have gotten a lot more common in the past years which means that you get unskilled people flying them and crashing them into trees, houses, people, dogs, giraffes and other stuff. Planes on the other hand are less common and are normally only flown by the the seasoned hobby-ist

do i agree with what happened to you? nope

but as always its the dumb ones that give us "pros" a bad rep

MysticStick > Jonathan Harper 02/12/2015 at 16:30

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Selective law enforcement is never cool. Like when you get pulled over in a nice car and someone going faster than you in a crapcan didn't.

Jonathan Harper > aberson Bresident of the FullyAssed Committe 02/12/2015 at 17:03

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I agree, there is a massive stigma. I just read an interesting bit in the NYT, and now I'm going to call the park that I was in and ask some specific questions. Might get a post out of this.

Brian Silvestro > Jonathan Harper 02/12/2015 at 17:52

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ALWAYS

44444444444 > Jonathan Harper 02/18/2015 at 15:14

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People are idiots. This is why real flying > RC flying.