[lanamo]

drones make unwanted noise and ruin the atmosphere of natural settings. does the world need your boring selfies from an aerial perspective? No. absolutely not. Only worse than these snapchat plastic teeny drones would a V2 with built-in flood light, for added light-pollution. Let's spoil star-gazing, too! I feel the sudden urge to pick up a book about falconry...

[1024core]

Drones are banned in National Parks and State Parks (in CA) anyways. So this sounds like a strawman.

[malauxyeux]

Is it enforced in National Parks?

N=1. There are signs everywhere at the Grand Canyon, but the guy flying his drone over literally hundreds of people at sunset a mere 50 meters from a visitors' center and rangers told me, "Oh, sorry, bro. I didn't know."

[a254613e]

You sound so grumpy. People want cool shots from drones for themselves, deal with it.

[a4isms]

People also want to run noisy, polluting dirt bikes and side-by-sides on every trail, everywhere.

And people just like you say, "deal with it." And behold, we deal with it by setting access rules. Some wild areas have trails for motorized play, some prohibit it.

Welcome to living in a society. We deal with things by taking everyone's needs into account and finding an appropriate balance.

[bduerst]

Eh, if only people were never bad actors and only used drones for that.

I was at a soap box derby a couple weeks back and they had to pause the entire event for fifteen minutes because someone was flying a drone down by the course area.

A couple hundred people were waiting on one person to remove their drone. Even after the announcers were asking the person to remove the drone they continued to keep it there.

[dymk]

More people want to enjoy a peaceful outdoors than those who want to play with loud fads in shared spaces. Deal with it.