The weather outside has been eerily lovely for the last week or so; Warm, clear, and bathed in gorgeous California sunshine.
The sunsets have been exceptionally tasty as well. Luckily. Francois Brahic, a local drone jockey, filmed one of those sunset recently, as seen from the top of Bernal Hill.
It’s a lovely little moment in time that captures the colors of the sunset and our new skyline in a very beautiful way. Enjoy:
Bernalwood 
Very nice — do we know which day that was?
It was on Sunday February 4th.
That is just beautiful!
Lovely. Thank you!
Hi 👋
Does Pam Grout live in Bernal?
I live on Bonview in Bernal and wonder if we are neighbors?
Thanks!
Lynda Beth Unkeless
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Does anyone else find these so called Drone Jockeys and the constant buzz from their aircraft extremely annoying? I want a remake of Bernaltown where the local kids storm the hill with homemade sling shots and shoot them all down with chunks of chert. The closing scene of the movie could be the neighbors once again enjoying a peaceful, calm and quiet sunset.
I don’t need to watch sunset on a computer. The placebo is insulting to the real thing and the buzz over our heads is never going to be worth it.
You’re lucky you don’t have to be cooped up in a windowless office during sunset. Not everyone has the privilege to be outside to see the live sunset, but would like to experience a small fraction of the beauty.
The planes and helicopters and construction sounds and traffic and school children screaming, etc… all much louder than the buzz of a quadcopter.
RH: I hope you aren’t in that office 7 days a week. Remember the sun sets everyday!
NASA studied studied drone noise and also found it to be annoying. Isn’t that why they are called drones?
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2140944-buzz-of-drones-is-more-annoying-than-any-other-kind-of-vehicle/
And here is the 21 page scientific paper:
Click to access 20170005870.pdf
Whiners
Or just a difference of opinion.
I was on the hill a couple weeks ago when a ranger was looking for someone with a drone. apparently it’s not legal… the group with the drone high-tailed it outta there when they saw him.
Not only is it annoying, it is illegal to fly drones in SF parks
It’s also illegal to have dogs off-leash in Precita Park, but everyone does it. I prefer drones to dogs running off-lease personally, but that’s just my opinion.
This actually says only “No person shall launch nor land”, doesn’t say anything about flying over. That’s likely because the park can’t regulate that, only the FAA can.
SEC. 3.09. AIRPLANES, HELICOPTERS,
HOT AIR BALLOONS, ETC. PROHIBITED.
No person shall launch nor land any air-
plane, helicopter, parachute, hang glider, hot air
balloon, nor any other machine or apparatus of
aviation in any park, nor shall any person bring
into any park any balloon with a diameter of
more than six feet or a gas capacity of more than
115 cubic feet, without permission of the Recre-
ation and Park Department. This Section shall
not be applicable to a helicopter being used to
transport persons or supplies because of an emer-
gency situation. (Added by Ord. 603-81, App.
12/18/81)
So you can’t have large balloons either.
Does this mean kites as well? A kite seems like it could be an “apparatus of
aviation”? According to the Code of Federal Regulations, it’s illegal to fly a kite over 500′ in altitude
https://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/text-idx?c=ecfr&rgn=div5&view=text&node=14:2.0.1.3.15&idno=14#14:2.0.1.3.15.2