drone n00b here, so its illegal to fly in hdb area huh? the other time i was shocked when i saw a drone hovering outside my hdb window for a few mins leh (privacy reason).. but how do I know which neighbour flying it?
hmm,.... everything very blur right now, no firm answers, only the authorities know how to interpret the laws. And from my limited knowledge:
can we fly drones at hdb estates?
my ans: I do NOT think there is any law saying you cannot fly drone at hdb estate. But note that more than half of hdb estates are under NFZ, e.g. pasir ris, tampines, bedok, punggol, sengkang, hougang, serangoon, woodlands, sembawang, cck, bt batok, marine parade, yishun, angmokio, jurong west. Those not under NFZ are clementi , jurong east, queenstown, bt merah, kallang, bt panjang, toapayoh.
https://www.caas.gov.sg/public-passengers/unmanned-aircraft-systems/area-limits
can we still fly drones inside own hdb flats, if it is under NFZ?
my ans: I do NOT know, but i do not think that stupid drone laws exclude drone flying inside your own flat.
One guys got too bored waiting for his plane, so drone selfie-ed himself inside the departing room. He got caught with evidence of photo from his facebook and fined HK$50K.
http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/...an-accused-flying-drone-take-photos-hong-kong
can we know which neighbor is flying the drone?
my ans: may be if you could catch and kidnap that drone, you will know when he tries to claim it back from you. In USA, a father was arrested for using a gun to shoot down a drone peeping at his teenage daughter sunbathing. May be after that "rights to forget on google" they will create a "rights to peep" next.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2015/08...spying-on-your-backyard-one-dad-was-arrested/
is current technology making it very easy for peeping?
my ans: no so at today 20 Apr 2018. For low end drones, the drone pilot would be very busy pressurized to keep the drone in air and no time peeping at you. For higher end drones like Spark or Mavic, these drones are very stable in the air so may be peeping is possible.
how i know if a drone is peeping into my apartment?
my ans: Drone technology is still not something you watch in movies where spy satellite's camera could peep into your home and do some facial recognition on you. For higher end drones like Spark or Mavic, they have good 4K camera but still unable to peep into your apartment if the drone is more than 5m away from your windows. Think of the drone camera as your handphone camera, you will have problem peeping into your own apartment if the handphone is more than 5m away from your window. And most drone cameras are too wide angle for peeping purpose. For some sicko to peep into your apartment from a hdb block opposite, I believe they need some binoculars or zooming/telescopic lens, and drones got no such lens yet. But if the drone is flying less than 2m away from your windows, with camera pointing at you for more than 30 sec, you should be quite sure they are peeping at you. Normal drone flyer will not fly a drone that close at <2m to a building, it could get the drone crashed easily.
is there any sicko drone flyers around peeping at people now?
my ans: at today 20 Apr 2018, i do not think so, due to the drones are relatively difficult to control and camera on drones are not that good. But definitely you will find lots and lots of sicko in future when drone technology improves, it will be as many as those upskirt photo taking sickos running wild outside now.
what drone equipment should i buy, if i want to peep into my own hdb, checking if my husband is having fun with my maid?
my ans: I think you need at least a DJI Spark or a Parrot Bebop 2. Lower end drones even like a GPS Hubsan H501S will have problem pointing camera at your window. H501S sometimes cannot lock to GPS properly and circle like housefly around that point. Even if you could get that H501S drone pointing quite stable into your window, the camera is still jump up and down bcoz it is without gimbal.
there are more and more drone laws, and more people are flying drone recklessly. Very soon there will be some accident happening.
I'm forced to flying smaller and smaller drones on this island. I'm flying tello now.
