This may help you see where you are in this:
Maybe there is something there that you can use to stop him?
One of our friends is a retired United pilot. He said one of the first things pilots learn is you can’t fly lower than 50 feet over horses - it is a FAA rule Does that help?
Seriously, not an FAA rule.
Federal Register - Final Rule on Operation and Certification of Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems
I’m not sure if anything in here would be helpful, but I was just discussing this with a fellow Federal employee the other day (neither of us are FAA but he was aware of the rule), and he pointed me to the Final Rule dated just 6/28/2016.
B. Summary of the Major Provisions of the Regulatory Action
This rule will add a new part 107 to Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations (14 CFR) to allow for routine civil operation of small UAS in the NAS and to provide safety rules for those operations. Consistent with the statutory definition, this rule will define small UAS as UAS that use unmanned aircraft weighing less than 55 pounds. To mitigate risk, the rule will limit small UAS to daylight and civil twilight operations with appropriate collision lighting, confined areas of operation, and visual-line-of-sight operations. This rule will also address airspace restrictions, remote pilot certification, visual observer requirements, and operational limits in order to maintain the safety of the NAS and ensure that small UAS do not pose a threat to national security. Because UAS constitute a quickly changing technology, a key provision of this rule is a waiver mechanism to allow individual operations to deviate from many of the operational restrictions of this rule if the Administrator finds that the proposed operation can safely be conducted under the terms of a certificate of waiver.
Below is a summary of the major provisions of the rule.
Operational Limitations
• Unmanned aircraft must weigh less than 55 lbs. (25 kg).
• Visual line-of-sight (VLOS) only; the unmanned aircraft must remain within VLOS of the remote pilot in command and the person manipulating the flight controls of the small UAS. Alternatively, the unmanned aircraft must remain within VLOS of the visual observer.
• At all times the small unmanned aircraft must remain close enough to the remote pilot in command and the person manipulating the flight controls of the small UAS for those people to be capable of seeing the aircraft with vision unaided by any device other than corrective lenses.
• Small unmanned aircraft may not operate over any persons not directly participating in the operation, not under a covered structure, and not inside a covered stationary vehicle.
• Daylight-only operations, or civil twilight (30 minutes before official sunrise to 30 minutes after official sunset, local time) with appropriate anti-collision lighting.
• Must yield right of way to other aircraft.
• May use visual observer (VO) but not required.
• First-person view camera cannot satisfy “see-and-avoid” requirement but can be used as long as requirement is satisfied in other ways.
• Maximum groundspeed of 100 mph (87 knots).
• Maximum altitude of 400 feet above ground level (AGL) or, if higher than 400 feet AGL, remain within 400 feet of a structure.
• Minimum weather visibility of 3 miles from control station.
• Operations in Class B, C, D and E airspace are allowed with the required ATC permission.
• Operations in Class G airspace are allowed without ATC permission.
• No person may act as a remote pilot in command or VO for more than one unmanned aircraft operation at one time.
• No operations from a moving aircraft.
• No operations from a moving vehicle unless the operation is over a sparsely populated area.
• No careless or reckless operations.
• No carriage of hazardous materials.
• Requires preflight inspection by the remote pilot in command.
• A person may not operate a small unmanned aircraft if he or she knows or has reason to know of any physical or mental condition that would interfere with the safe operation of a small UAS.
• Foreign-registered small unmanned aircraft are allowed to operate under part 107 if they satisfy the requirements of part 375.
• External load operations are allowed if the object being carried by the unmanned aircraft is securely attached and does not adversely affect the flight characteristics or controllability of the aircraft.
ETA: You’ll have to do more research on when the law is officially effective. I didn’t look into this that far.
ETA2: I see that someone else linked to the rule and said it doesn’t apply to hobbyist operations. Interesting.
I’ve been watching this thread off and on – has anyone suggested this?
http://techacute.com/raptors-protecting-privacy-from-drones/
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One of our friends is a retired United pilot. He said one of the first things pilots learn is you can’t fly lower than 50 feet over horses - it is a FAA rule Does that help?[/QUOTE]
500 ft above any obstacle or terrain in rural, 1000 ft in urban I believe what you are thinking for a fixed wing aircraft
Over congested areas. ·Over any congested area of a city, town, or settlement, or over any open air assembly of persons, an altitude of 1,000 feet above the highest obstacle within a horizontal radius of 2.000 feet of the aircraft
© Over other than congested areas 500 feet above the surface except over open water or sparsely populated areas the aircraft may not be operated closer than 500 feet to any person, vessel, vehicle, or structure.
(d) ·Helicopters. ·Helicopters may be operated at less than the minimums prescribed In paragraph
Hey you airplane rule people, I am having a bear googling this up: are you allowed to keep a gun inside a private FAA hangar? As in, the guy has a crop dusting business and private airport.
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Hey you airplane rule people, I am having a bear googling this up: are you allowed to keep a gun inside a private FAA hangar? As in, the guy has a crop dusting business and private airport.[/QUOTE]
I would think so in a private hanger ( a private FAA hanger? that would be a Fed site not private) , I know a guy locally who has a fully armed UH1 Huey with mini-guns … he is fully licensed to fly that puppy around …so if you can have a real machine gun in hanger I would suspect a hand gun is nothing
I worked on the DEA’s hanger at Alliance Airport Ft Worth… there is a gun range under the hanger, but this is a Federal hanger with Federal agents …so suspect they can carry
Thanks!
Clanter-federal law enforcement can carry while on duty on federal installations, and many carry while off duty also. It depends on the job, because some only carry as a part of their work on security, with weapons issued for their shift. Others carry a permanently issued weapon, just like a civilian police detective always carries (at least the ones I know do).
Shotgun time.
Sorry, I wasn’t really clear, I don’t understand airplanes at all :lol: It’s a private hangar that someone flies cropdusters out of, that is subject to FAA rules. The guy is having a dispute with a neighbor and has told a relative that he’s keeping a loaded gun in the hangar in order to shoot neighbor if he trespasses again. Relative wonders if it’s legal or if she could report him to FAA.
His property, he can do whatever he wants.
airhorse is right. It’s private property, and in some states you can open carry, or get concealed carry permits also.
Thanks!
Back to our regularly scheduled thread, any new shenanigans, OP?
Can you borrow a paint gun to shoot it?
I learned a little bit about this when reading about an Oregon company trying to develop a “disabling” unit for drones for precisely the task of getting rid of peeping drones. And by the way if the OP thinks this is bad, the OP needs to know that commercial drones are in all ways legal so the OP can expect realtors and property development companies to be looking too…Anyway according to FAA regulations it is illegal to “shoot down” any flight vehicle even a drone. Apparently this has application against radio flyers, too. When the new technology is available to consumers they theoretically should be able to disable the drone which would drop to the ground, hopefully not clipping anything important on the way down like, oh, kids, the elderly family dog, the elderly family for that matter, or your ten thousand dollar bonsai’d Japanese split-leaf maple that’s over 200 years old. That kind of thing doesn’t stand up well to hits by drones. You legally (as I understand it from the legal research I’ve done as a halfbaked paralegal who hangs with lawyers more than any normal person should) cannot swat them down because you are damaging property belonging to someone else. Disabling the drone with the new technology seems to be the only thing that is going to be available to protect privacy.
Frankly I wouldn’t bother talking to the drone’s owners. I would just go ahead and press criminal charges for harassment, menacing, , etc., then file civil lawsuit. But hey - as I said, I hang with lawyers an awful lot so the first thing which usually occurs to me is to sue. Do try to find an attorney who takes contingent litigation cases otherwise you could go broke. And before you get launched on this project, you and your kids go to a doctor to document the extreme physical reactions to stress caused by this including losing sleep (which IS physically damaging), children acting out due to stress, losing performance at school which can be due to stress, you missing work due to physical reaction to stress, etc. etc. You get the idea, I’m sure. Start documenting!!
Why not just hold up a sign saying please go away I am feeling harassed. Do not pass my property line.
Hey Everyone, sorry for falling off the radar. I did figure out there were two drones on my property. One belonged to a realtor listing my neighbors property. I noticed the listing included some great photos of my pasture and the woods behind me. The other drone is flying over from across the street. The hobby drone seems to be staying much higher than before but still flies around my outbuildings, now when I am out working in a corner somewhere. It seems as though there is not much I can do from a legal standpoint especially if they keep their flights high enough that I can’t claim voyerism.
I still plan to ask my neighbors to respect my privacy and stay off my property when I feel like having a chat. I’m saying final goodbyes to my grand old 29 year old gelding this week and probably wouldn’t care if a flying saucer was floating around in my back pasture. For now all I’m all about spending time with my favorite old horse.
Hugs and good thoughts coming your way, regarding your gelding.
Regarding the drones - interesting about the real estate agent.
Annoying about the peeping Tom neighbor. I stand by my original post about shooting that drone out of the sky:) 
