[Boomer]

Originally Posted by EdFNJ

Yea, I sit corrected on that. I call it a license because I keep relating it to the Ham Radio license I got about 60 years ago except that test seemed easy since they didn't care what the weather was at 20,000 feet or what an aircraft at 15,000 feet was experiencing. Although the certificate does give you privileges or "license (verb OR synonym)" to do things you can't without it.

Originally Posted by Boomer

Hey, Ed, whatever that piece of paper is called, when I read that you are studying for it, your post caused me to nag Mr. Boomer.

Mr. Boomer is a licensed, single-engine pilot, with an instrument rating, and a seaplane rating.

He bought a drone a while back. It cost a few bucks. (I don’t really want to know how much. It is the third drone he has owned so it definitely looks like an upgrade from the two he has given away. The first one was basically a toy, but that was years ago.) Anyway, he does not fly it much.

Last year, a wicked storm hit our northern neighborhood and caused a lot of roof damage. Some of the neighbors asked him to take some roof pictures for them. He did.

Even though he did not even consider charging for those pictures — and he never would, I would feel better if he covered his drone flying with the official paperwork.

So I just now asked him about this course.

Turns out he had already downloaded it from King Schools, just had not done anything with it yet. He said what pilots have to know for their licenses gives him a head start on the drone course.

Btw, he has 3 — I think it’s 3 — ham radio licenses. Some of the single-engine pilots we know also have ham licenses.

Now, go study! Both of you.

Boomer

Whoops. Now, I must stand/sit corrected, too. . .

I did not know what I was talking about when I said Mr. Boomer had 3 ham licenses. After I wrote that, I asked him. He said it is only 1 license because the last part overrides the first 2 — or some such thing — so it’s still one license.

(Had to get that correction out there before somebody tells me to go stand in the corner or whatever because I did not get things exactly right.)

Anyway, Ed, Mr. B. is at his desk working on the drone thing even as we speak. So, thank you. . .I think. . .there could be a new drone on his mind. . .

One thing can lead to another around here — like when I saw a Sawzall for the first time and innocently said, “That looks like it could be a handy tool.” Next thing I knew, I received one from Mr. B. as a gift. (I do not use power tools.) Fortunately, I have a sense of humor and we still laugh when he refers to it as, “your Sawzall.”

Boomer

[rockyhyder]

Originally Posted by Marathon Man

A wise person shared this with me, maybe you will find the same wisdom in these words. “He who angers you controls you”.

Sir you are a wise man indeed!

[Velvet]

Originally Posted by AzAuSenior

The drone in question was out surveilling the neighborhood at 11 PM; not the kind of monitoring one would expect from a drone club or Gold Wingnut. We're not concerned about legitimate drone use, but rather exploitation by others using drones for questionable purposes and what can residents do when suspicious drones are observed operating in a neighborhood.

Wish those surveillance drones would fly over the pools where some people are really breaking the rules and often getting away with it. And I’d like to know who was the person eating peanuts and throwing the shells around the pool area and who was the one that left garbage stuck on the deck chairs for the next user to enjoy.

[frose]

knock it down

[Altavia]

Anyone else noticed the strobe lights, of what may be a drone, nightly near the Coleman area?

[Madelaine Amee]

Originally Posted by DaleDivine

Golfer's Get ****ed at RC Car!!!! (MUST SEE) - YouTube

Another good reason not to mess with old people .

[Boomer]

Originally Posted by triflex

I was playing golf early one morning and looked up and there was a fella in his lanai smoking a cigar. The only thing he was wearing was his cigar. He puffed away like he was commander of the universe. A real porch pioneer he was.

He had the mindset of Lewis and Clark and the body of Homer Simpson. $1M+ house too.

Buck naked posh-porch-pioneers don't care about your drone.

Oh wonderful. Now I can’t un-see your description and I thought I had put the guy of my nightmares out of mind. Your imagery reminded me.

We bought in TV several years ago, after looking for a while.

It was funny you should say what you said because when we were looking for a house, I always said that it could not have a lanai that backed up to another lanai — because I figured my neighbor would end up being a cigar-smoking, buck naked (or is it butt naked?), loud-mouth guy, sitting around, watching his blaring television.

That guy was only in my real estate nightmares. He never actually happened because I was not taking any chances. When we walked into the house that backed up to a courtyard villa, that was it. We liked the house fine, but that wall behind it sealed the deal.

Boomer