Originally published at: FAA Reviews Wing Drone Delivery Expansion In Houston
The proposal would cover up to 75 sites in the Houston metro area.
The nightmare begins! 400 drone delivery flights per site, Walmart claims they will not increase noise nor will power generation for charging drones increase pollution. Are you kidding? Drones flying between 200 and 300 ft are definitely going to cause noise. Flights every 2 minutes, 12 hours are they are definitely going to be noticed, especially about people who live close to a Walmart. Only Houston for now, but this is of course the camel’s nose under the tent edge, they propose operating until 10:00 pm at night once they are fully in the swing of things. They say they will drop by line, but I can predict things falling out of the sky. They say they will hover at 20 ft for delivery, plenty of places they couldn’t do that without getting tangled up in trees. I wish the Federal Administration Agency would do something to resist this! Comments until June means if this gets spread around enough there might be enough unfavorable comments to shut it down?
There’s a Walmart within the tower control airspace centered five mile radius on the Longview and Tyler airports, can you see yourself on final approach and suddenly having a drone in your face half a mile from landing? The recent LaGuardia crash illustrates how pilots on visual approaches with landing clearance in hand are completely unprepared for the sudden need to go around. How long before the air first airplane crash from this? Stupid, Stupid, STUPID!
While the concept and logistics is in itself an amazing bit of technology, I seriously wonder of the actual need. Aside from prescription drug delivery for homebound individuals, it seems more a novelty, or simply enhancing the laziness of our population. With a WM practically everywhere, this is just feeding the “immediate satisfaction “ crowd. I mean, 5# is like a half gallon of milk!
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