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Seeing this discussion here makes me think about the thousands of commercial flights that happen above our heads every moment of the day (look at FlightRadar24), carrying many lives, thousands of gallons of fuel and are massively huge crafts (An example of an average sized airplane the Boeing 737-800. It has a maximum takeoff weight of about 175,000 lbs (80,000 kg) that are not immune from failures. We tend to not even think that a craft of that size has the possibility to drop out of the sky and come down anywhere...into a crowd, small town or large city with catastrophic results. Why don't we give it much thought, because we trust that there are management systems for commercial flights in place to address a failure and minimize potential damage, whereas with drones we can't always trust that every PIC has the same frame of mind or risk management plan for the possibility of failure. So flying a drone over a crowd, you have to assume the risk and have systems in place to minimize the possibilities of failure and procedures to employ if any failure does occur. Knowing that drones are available for purchase by anyone, and with that in mind, thinking about some friends you have or people you may know (I know some people I wouldn't trust with a wet paper bag), would you want just anyone flying a drone above a crowd.....it just takes one "DOH" to cause people to have a bad day. Just my opinion, and I'm sticking to it...
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