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SkyeHigh reacted to AnzacJack's post in the thread Should Authorities reconsider line of sight with 360 drones ? with
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I would hardly call line of sight - a very limiting range. It wasn’t so long ago that a coupkr hundred metres pretty good and acceptable range for drones -
SkyeHigh replied to the thread Should Authorities reconsider line of sight with 360 drones ?.‘Right now, we need to think only about avoiding impacts with trees, wires, and (very rarely) low flying aircraft.’ And anything that the drone may fall on in the event of a battery or flight controller failure.
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SkyeHigh reacted to Felix le Chat's post in the thread Should Authorities reconsider line of sight with 360 drones ? with Like.
Unless I'm very mistaken, LOS is all about being able to see the drone as a ground observer... a limiting regulation to restrict the maximum distance between the drone and the operator. Where 'situational awareness' is mentioned - that refers to...
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SkyeHigh replied to the thread Should Authorities reconsider line of sight with 360 drones ?.It’s not the visibility from the drone’s camera that is relevant whether forward facing or 360. It is the pilot in control’s vision with unaided eyesight that restricts visibility. Situational awareness is about what the PiC can see and that is...
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SkyeHigh reacted to Pacefast's post in the thread Should Authorities reconsider line of sight with 360 drones ? with Like.
These are goggle controlled drones rather than VLOS in that sense ! There is supposed to be an observer maintaining VLOS but the observer is not nessassarily experienced and is not controlling tjhe drone. Apart from telling the pilot thr rough...