Drones - what rules are actually in play?

StroppyChops · Post by **StroppyChops** » Tue Jun 12, 2018 4:31 pm

A visiting friend has a high-end drone and is planning to record some video in Boeung Tompun for the enterprise.

Obviously he'll stay away from the wats and any obviously government-staff houses.

Should he expect any interference from officials with short flights?

John Bingham · Post by **John Bingham** » Tue Jun 12, 2018 4:39 pm

I don't know how accurate it is but this sat image was issued a few years back, it seems to include most of the Boueng Tumpun neighborhood, but only the north part of the BT lake.

I'm not sure you'd get bothered away from the palace and boss' townhouse. I was at an event in the stadium a few weeks ago that the PM was at and there were quite a few drones being flown around by news crews.

StroppyChops · Post by **StroppyChops** » Tue Jun 12, 2018 4:56 pm

John Bingham wrote: ↑Tue Jun 12, 2018 4:39 pm I don't know how accurate it is but this sat image was issued a few years back, it seems to include most of the Boueng Tumpun neighborhood, but only the north part of the BT lake.

I'm not sure you'd get bothered away from the palace and boss' townhouse. I was at an event in the stadium a few weeks ago that the PM was at and there were quite a few drones being flown around by news crews.

Cheers for that. His drone has a 10km range so I'll have to pretty clear with him on how far to travel - we're only looking at over-head passes at the moment, but I know he'll be eager to go high. I'll get him to run out over the BT lake just for background.

We're very anti-poverty-porn as an organisation, thoughts on whether the old Steung Meanchey dump is worth a pass?

kiwiincambodia · Post by **kiwiincambodia** » Tue Jun 12, 2018 6:09 pm

I saw a friend post this on Facebook today.

It’s gone up at the naga end of the park on Sihanouk blvd on the corner of Sotheros.

StroppyChops · Post by **StroppyChops** » Tue Jun 12, 2018 6:16 pm

kiwiincambodia wrote: ↑Tue Jun 12, 2018 6:09 pm I saw a friend post this on Facebook today.

It’s gone up at the naga end of the park on Sihanouk blvd on the corner of Sotheros.

Thanks (looks like something from District 9 - "do you want a sweetie?") - I wonder if it would be too much to assume the logic that if there are declared no-drone-zones, unsigned areas permit drones. Thoughts?

Artful Dodger · Post by **Artful Dodger** » Tue Jun 12, 2018 8:52 pm

well that's a start... before arresting people without saying you can't do it

Post by **Username Taken** » Tue Jun 12, 2018 9:04 pm

StroppyChops wrote: ↑Tue Jun 12, 2018 6:16 pm I wonder if it would be too much to assume the logic that if there are declared no-drone-zones, unsigned areas permit drones. Thoughts?

That logic would require you to know the locations of all the no-drone-zones first.

John Bingham · Post by **John Bingham** » Tue Jun 12, 2018 9:13 pm

StroppyChops wrote: ↑Tue Jun 12, 2018 4:56 pm
John Bingham wrote: ↑Tue Jun 12, 2018 4:39 pm I don't know how accurate it is but this sat image was issued a few years back, it seems to include most of the Boueng Tumpun neighborhood, but only the north part of the BT lake.

I'm not sure you'd get bothered away from the palace and boss' townhouse. I was at an event in the stadium a few weeks ago that the PM was at and there were quite a few drones being flown around by news crews.
Cheers for that. His drone has a 10km range so I'll have to pretty clear with him on how far to travel - we're only looking at over-head passes at the moment, but I know he'll be eager to go high. I'll get him to run out over the BT lake just for background.

We're very anti-poverty-porn as an organisation, thoughts on whether the old Steung Meanchey dump is worth a pass?

I never went to the dump when it was open, it closed in 2009 and I didn't move to nearby till maybe 4 years later. I went to check it out first because it looked like a weird hill in the distance. They had covered it with topsoil and whatever and it had grass growing on it so looked normal enough from the distance, but when you got close there were patches of garbage/ glass and burnt out patches from ay-jis that spoiled that illusion. There was just a tiny bunch of decrepit shacks at the bottom of the hill under a withered tree. There were ay-jis living there, but it didn't look like many. Much of the surrounding land was vacant swamp. Nearby construction made it more difficult to access though, so I wasn't near there for years until I found a dirt road leading to another part nearby. There were quite a few houses around but mostly on the rough side, recovered wood/ plastic sacks/ rush mats etc. That was maybe a couple of years ago, I was there more recently and the road has been concreted and there are loads of houses that I believe CFF of PSE have funded. So anyway it's quite built up in places. The problem with the BT lake is that besides the red exclusion zone on the map, there is another likely more enforced exclusion zone to the south around Ta Khmao. It's probably worth inquiring about what the actual restrictions are, I know a couple of friends at least who have serious drones and should ask them.

StroppyChops · Post by **StroppyChops** » Tue Jun 12, 2018 10:30 pm

John Bingham wrote: ↑Tue Jun 12, 2018 9:13 pm
StroppyChops wrote: ↑Tue Jun 12, 2018 4:56 pm
John Bingham wrote: ↑Tue Jun 12, 2018 4:39 pm I don't know how accurate it is but this sat image was issued a few years back, it seems to include most of the Boueng Tumpun neighborhood, but only the north part of the BT lake.

I'm not sure you'd get bothered away from the palace and boss' townhouse. I was at an event in the stadium a few weeks ago that the PM was at and there were quite a few drones being flown around by news crews.
Cheers for that. His drone has a 10km range so I'll have to pretty clear with him on how far to travel - we're only looking at over-head passes at the moment, but I know he'll be eager to go high. I'll get him to run out over the BT lake just for background.

We're very anti-poverty-porn as an organisation, thoughts on whether the old Steung Meanchey dump is worth a pass?
I never went to the dump when it was open, it closed in 2009 and I didn't move to nearby till maybe 4 years later. I went to check it out first because it looked like a weird hill in the distance. They had covered it with topsoil and whatever and it had grass growing on it so looked normal enough from the distance, but when you got close there were patches of garbage/ glass and burnt out patches from ay-jis that spoiled that illusion. There was just a tiny bunch of decrepit shacks at the bottom of the hill under a withered tree. There were ay-jis living there, but it didn't look like many. Much of the surrounding land was vacant swamp. Nearby construction made it more difficult to access though, so I wasn't near there for years until I found a dirt road leading to another part nearby. There were quite a few houses around but mostly on the rough side, recovered wood/ plastic sacks/ rush mats etc. That was maybe a couple of years ago, I was there more recently and the road has been concreted and there are loads of houses that I believe CFF of PSE have funded. So anyway it's quite built up in places. The problem with the BT lake is that besides the red exclusion zone on the map, there is another likely more enforced exclusion zone to the south around Ta Khmao. It's probably worth inquiring about what the actual restrictions are, I know a couple of friends at least who have serious drones and should ask them.

Thanks for that, very comprehensive - sounds like there's still too much of an impoverished population at the site to film there, don't want to use poverty for promotion. Yeah, I think CCF has one of it's main sites there, focusing on the families that used to work the dump. I'm aware that Ta Khmao would be a hot spot as the PMs personal guard training grounds are out there, and you'd be crossing into the reserved flight path for his helicopter. I might encourage my mate to do a skim of the lake and have a look at the feed before venturing out much further. He'll have a whip through the streets, with a Khmer team member walking below/behind the drone so the locals don't freak out, and also to keep it off the radar, so to speak.

WRT the dump, I know a Khmer pastor who goes in and out a few times a week, possibly down the path you mention, to visit with the families in the sheet-plastic shacks that are still there on the fringes. He occasionally takes tourists (took a few of our homestayers) but I wish he wouldn't, as they're just looking for selfies or to save the world in a day.

StroppyChops · Post by **StroppyChops** » Sat Jun 16, 2018 10:10 pm

My mate from Australia (Kiwi, but he can't help that) brought his drone over for a play and to capture some video the other day. Every time we took it out into the street, it started raining. Back inside, 15 minutes later, stopped raining. Back outside, starts raining. Pleeung, bong! He fired it up inside the carport area, no dramas. Impressive bit of kit. It finally cleared enough to take it outside, but he was stunned at the sheer volume of cables over our way, so we headed up onto the roof. At this point, the firmware kept failing the remote for pre-flight, claiming there was too much magnetic interference. Mate claimed he'd never seen that level of mag-int before, recalibrated the drone three times, thought he'd give it a burl anyway. I'd already seen the thing in auto-hover mode, rock steady, we'd give it a shove and it would return to it's starting point. Once in the air it was hugely unstable, and worse the closer he got to a storm that was hanging around. Even the video feed was affected. We'll try again another day. Oh, if you were looking for a big ending, there isn't one.

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