How many drone related fatalities?

[AnzacJack]

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Should we ban light aircraft?

 

[GFields]

I understand where you're coming from, but accidents happen.

 

[Cafguy]

Ban?....NO BUT somewhere the word responsibility was thrown out. Pilots make tragic mistakes and sometimes completely stupid ones. Banning airplanes is not the answer learning to be responsible is.
A few years ago a man packed his family in his new twin engine for a trip to Vegas now this pilot decided to depart with moderate weather along his flight path, he was not instrument rated. The clouds caught up to our pilot and he ended up in a death spiral, his plane crashed in an almond orchard killing himself and the other 5 members of his family. ( 3 fatalities were children under the age of 10). If this pilot would have considered his limitations and stayed on the ground they would all be alive today.

 

[Max Headroom]

Should we ban light aircraft?

No, as far as we know these pilots were not breaking any aviation laws/rules they were unlucky that's why its called an "accident"

The types of drone pilot who get us all a bad name go out on purpose to fly where they shouldn't, i think its time they made the Drone Flyer Theory Test compulsory for all drone pilots it may put some of these irresponsible idiots off buying one in the first place.

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[AeroJ]

Should we ban light aircraft?

No, but pilots found to have been flying lower than the proscribed altitudes, especially those that do it over parkland and areas where public congregate or where drones are known to fly should have their licenses suspended or removed and they should face the same massive personal fines we as UAV pilots are subject to.

In my personal experience it is almost a daily occurrence to spot a light aircraft only a few hundred feet above residential and park areas. Their disregard of altitude minimums seems universal, and it appears that they view these rules as at best discretionary !

 

[mavic3usa]

Should we ban light aircraft?

I don't think you can make the comparison here. The only way to do this is to wait until the next time a drone is involved in a near-miss with a manned aircraft or a drone is flying some place it should not be and therefore increases the risk of collision with a manned aircraft. Then you can point back to the this thread.

 

[AMann]

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Should we ban light aircraft?

I don’t see any comparisons to this with drones. How about cars? They carry people also.

 

[tstr14]

Using similar logic, 114 people died in gym related accidents in the past 17 years, whereas only one person died while eating a donut. Obviously we should all stay away from gyms and head to the donut shop!

 

[Bad Santa]

Cars crash. Planes crash. Bicycles crash. Motorcycles crash. Workplaces have accidents. People get sick and die from food.
Ban them all.

 

[Max Headroom]

Using similar logic, 114 people died in gym related accidents in the past 17 years, whereas only one person died while eating a donut. Obviously we should all stay away from gyms and head to the donut shop!

I have been doing that for years

 

[Felix le Chat]

I have been doing that for years

....the gym? or the donut shop? Oh!..… truck driver.... that'll be the gym then.

 

[Felix le Chat]

There have been over 30,000 recorded deaths as a result of commercial and non-commercial air incidents since the first recorded aircraft death in 1903.

Number of minced, dismembered and deceased victims of consumer class drone incidents?.... Erm.... none... but there have been one or two nasty cuts.

Number of deaths, injuries and outright maimings since the deployment of the General Atomics Reaper? That's anybody's guess.

 

[AnzacJack]

I wasnt for banning light aircraft. I fly them all the time. It was just a conversation starter. Could of started the same thread with a gun related death, but I know that's a no-go conversation with you yanks.
I guess the real question is, are drone operations for recreational pilots under threat?
I dont think so in Australia. But as technology increases the capabilities, who knows.
The biggest concern i have is with some advertising aliexpress for mini bombs with electronic strikers already attached and ready to trigger whatever you might think of attaching. I struggle to see any safe legitimate use for these.

Anyway, thanks for the conversation and keep flying safe people

 

[Cafguy]

All those cleaners and Fresheners you use at home cause 900,000 premature deaths A YEAR and thats just from the air pollution aspect alone! Should we ban pine-sol?

 

[AnzacJack]

All those cleaners and Fresheners you use at home cause 900,000 premature deaths A YEAR and thats just from the air pollution aspect alone! Should we ban pine-sol?

Should we?

 

[Cafguy]

Oh how I hate the smell of Pine-sol on a Saturday morning...I say DO IT !