Thats why you have no idea what they were thinking.take a look at the last photo in my post, that's the zoomed out version of the video.
Check no-fly zones on ENAIRE DronesOff to Majorca soon, any regulations I need to be aware of ?
If that were me on the boat and I saw drone fFOLLOWING MEOUT TO SEA, I'd be angry and maybe consider if it was a government drone and get pretty angry about the government following me. heck, if you were following me just walking around, I'd get angry then, as well. I think what you done was rude.Today I was filming the beautiful beach of Cala Millor, Mallorca when I saw a public tourist boat was boarding. I Decided I could Active Track it from a distance.
There are no laws (that I'm aware of) in Europe against tracking a boat, so I select it in the app, and click Start (Point-Of-Interest). Everything was fine, the flight went well, or so I thought!
After coming back home, and reviewing the footage, I noticed that 5 people that were on board of that boat were angry about my drone and started pointing at it, waving, and taking photos of it, and the most ridiculous thing, calling other tourists to check out my drone; come on, WHY would anyone do that? It seems crazy to me!
I don't want to post the video here, but here are some screenshots of it:
This guy is trying to take a photo of the drone:
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And another guy is pointing at it with his finger and waving like he wants it to go away:
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I just don't understand how they could hear the drone, let alone see it! It was 50 meters (160 feet) high at that moment, about 80 meters away! The waves, water is loud, how?
I think even I wouldn't be able to see the drone from that high even if I was searching for it. All the screenshots above were zoomed in many times (I don't know how many times exactly)
Just for reference, here is a photo without any zoom from (relatively) the same frame as before:
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As you can see it is pretty far away!
We have a neighbours WhatsApp and the latest piece of paranoia is a police drone flying over the road. I have no idea if it is police (it wasn't me!), I doubt drones can be set up to record speeding but they could spot people not stopping at a dangerous stop sign but it is in a forbidden area - helipads and a small airport. When they spot a drone people tend to think they are being spied on for nefarious purposes.If that were me on the boat and I saw drone fFOLLOWING MEOUT TO SEA, I'd be angry and maybe consider if it was a government drone and get pretty angry about the government following me.
A government drone following you?I'd be angry and maybe consider if it was a government drone and get pretty angry about the government following me.
I do not understand why people get so bent out of shape over a drone flying overhead. Yet thousands of people every where are are walking around taking videos with their cell phone and nobody sees that as an invasion of privacy. An iphone 13 has such a powerful zoom that could take a video/pic of someone well anywhere in any environment and they would no be bothered.
A government drone following you?
I've never heard anyone suggest that the government follows people with drones.
Your imagination is overactive.
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