Amazon wants to rule the sky

The article below outlines Amazon’s views of a future with delivery by drone as a common occurrence.

To ensure safety some form of traffic management will be necessary, according to Amazon. So, when a drone is delivering some nice new ND filters for your drone, you will be grounded until the delivery is done. And if your neighbours are heavy Prime users and get all their requirements from Amazon then your window of opportunity for flying for fumn may be severely limited …

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I guess this is the logical next step for these 'ere big sellers. Its been in the pipeline.

They just need to rally a bit more with their negative drone stories to get joe public grounded for good to ensure safe deliveries. :roll_eyes:

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I’ve liked your post out of courtesy. I do not like the content - I am fearful that you are right :frowning:

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Same here! Next step Amazon offer to privately control the sky’s for Drone owners as a government contract Guess who will take trafficking priorities :grimacing:

“Follow the money” - this is what all the hasty CAA rules and regs are all about. Removing pesky hobbiests from interfering with Amazon’s (and any other special interest) ability to make money.

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I’m encouraged.

Don’t get me wrong as I don’t trust Amazon but if anybody has the resources to pull the ATM system off it would be them…

I see it as a good step where thier software could (I say could because who knows what this Gov will do) make hobbyist flying safer, and potentially simpler.

All that said, I confess, I’ve always been an optomist.

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Nailed it. :point_up_2:

The skies are going get much busier and not with hobbyists.

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I would just add that there isn’t actually anything that says that we just need to sit and let this happen. We could petition, but politicians won’t listen to that much (remember “Boatie McBoatface”) or we could campaign where they don’t want us to compaign, on “social media” - I use that phrase lightly because its anything but “social”. But that’s where these “special interest” groups feel the most threatened.

Well if this happens I hope scrotes build kill the amazon drones shoot them down and nick the delivery’s

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