Some hunters are using the unmanned flying devices to track their prey. That practice is causing controversy among hunters and those who oversee big game management.UAS are one of the fastest growing tech products on the market. The technology offers a significant advantage for hunters. They allow hunters to get up close to their target without having to spend hours and miles tracking them.
“We think it gives the hunter an unfair advantage,” said Backcountry Hunters & Anglers spokesman Tim Brass.
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers has proposed new bans on UAS to game managers across the West.
“As the technology progresses you’re ow able to locate animals without having to walk and work for them. That effort and skill makes hunting what it is,” said Brass.
UAS in hunting is an issue that’s being tackled across the U.S. In Massachusetts PETA activists use UAS to record videos of hunters in the field saying they’re trying to keep hunters honest. Colorado law calls that surveillance harassment.
Wildlife officials do worry about the use of UAS because it could change the nature of the chase.
“Our goal is to make sure that the harvest of animals is done in an ethical fashion. That we’re not seeing people get out there and do things that are crossing the line,” said Colorado Parks & Wildlife spokesman Randy Hampton.
Game managers believe the ban is needed now as UAS become more prevalent in everyday life.
“We want to make sure people aren’t using technology to cheat the system,” said Hampton.
The Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission will soon vote on regulations that prohibit the use of unmanned aircraft in hunting or scouting..
The Federal Aviation Administration that says shooting an unmanned aircraft is a crime.
Source: CBS Denver
Yeah, technology has no place in hunting. Hunter’s should have to earn their game by sitting in a heated blind looking through a 30x illuminated mil dot scope with built in range finder, shooting .300 Winchester Magnum Nosler Partition rounds out of a rifle with a stainless steel fluted barrel, composite stock, aluminum bedding block and Timney trigger. You know, like they did in the old days.
“We want to make sure people aren’t using technology to cheat the system.” Give me a break.
The article says “The Federal Aviation Administration that says shooting an unmanned aircraft is a crime” These so called “drones” which are personally owned quadcopters used for hunting would not fall under the FAA’s jurisdiction because they are not U.S. registered aircraft with a valid Airworthiness certificate for operating a UAS for a special purpose such as Research and development or crew training in the National Airspace. So technically shooting one down would not be in violation of FAA rules or regulations, personally owned quadcopters used by a private individual for their own purpose are like flying a model aircraft for your own purpose as long as you do not endanger the public in the air or on the ground. Also the Quadcopters used by PETA are not under the FAA’s jurisdiction as they are also privately owned quadcopters.
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Quadcopters are a hillbilly term for describing a drone.
Quads are in particular a 4 engine/rotor aircraft.
UAS (unmanned aerial survey) aircraft take on many structural and functional definitions, as they can be as simple as a single engine airplane style craft, or as complex as a flying saucer with some antigravity propulsion system.
More accurately, the helicopter thingys that take off and land vertically can be generically described as ” multi rotor ” , if they possess more than one main lifting rotary wing.
Getting refined here, you can further define them by class by then calling them quadrotors, hexarotors, octorotors, and so on.
Omission of the suffix ” rotor” is acceptable when replacing it with ” copter”…but there we go again decending a bit downward into hillbilly linguistics more or less. Lol
Not to be a snob or nuttin,
Just offering realistic and usefully potent guidelines that will certainly enhance your terminologies when describing these aircraft, especially when presenting such to anyone of authority or intellectual calbre.
Enjoy!
Long live the robots