Posted by oldtanker on March 06, 2017 at 06:33:49 from (66.228.255.59):
In Reply to: Shooting down drones? posted by Fritz Maurer on March 05, 2017 at 20:26:29:
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The most famous case of this kind comes from 1945 when a chicken farmer named Thomas Lee Causby sued the US government for flying approximately 83 feet above his property, the noise of which caused a bunch of Causby’s chicken’s to accidentally kill themselves by running into walls. Causby won his case and the courts agreed that although a property owner wasn’t entitled to own all of the air above their land, they were entitled to enough so that planes flying overhead wouldn’t kill their chickens. Progress!
Today in the UK thanks to the Civil Aviation Act of 1982, the generally accepted amount of air above one’s roof a person is entitled to is approximately 500-1,000 feet, though again this isn’t a hard definition. Likewise, the United States has a similar estimation of about 500 feet, though this has never been officially ruled on by the Supreme Court.
In both cases, this may be soon changing with the widespread introduction of drones, both personal, commercial, and those owned by the respective governments. As such, the U.S. federal government particularly has recently been looking into significantly lowering the airspace “public highway” floor to accommodate this type of aircraft.
So you are both right and wrong. I have yet to hear about chickens dying because someone flew a drone over your property.
And then there are laws about shooting at aircraft. And a drone by definition is an aircraft. Look at it this way. Many states have castle laws that allow a home owner or renter TO shoot someone who breaks INTO their residence. That doesn't cover someone trespassing or looking through a window even while your teen daughter is getting dressed. So that means that if a person flying a drone flies it through an open window you can shoot it down once it's INSIDE your house.
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