Hundreds violate FAA's Drone no fly zone at Albuquerque's Balloon fiesta

lmel2005 · Oct 13, 2018

Slim.slamma said:
I agree, on the other hand

How would you feel, if you was in the one of those Hot Air Balloons?
Being circled by a drone...
not that safe
Tough call

I’m a rule breaker but...

I fly over crowds so who am I to judge

I'm not sure that a drone can cut the fabric of a balloon.
But even it could, balloon can land smoothly and safely.

I would feel fine, things to worry about are ON the balloon, not drones.

Even hot air ballooning is a safe sport, there are deadly accidents happened. I don't have time now to check NTSB, but I remember an accident in Texas (maybe not) where many people were killed, and was in news here in Europe.

lmel2005 · Oct 13, 2018

STKNRUD said:
If the next idiot kills several people, is the rule still “unfair” or foolish”?

If next idiot kills none, is he clever?

JSKCKNIT · Oct 13, 2018

gnirtS said:
Surely large scale violation like this is the type of thing Aeroscope should be deployed for - to ID, catch and prosecute.

It also proves this is why we cant have nice things. The drone community as a whole is too immature to self police.

Funny as soon as I read the title to the thread, I said this is why we can't have nice things!

There's an Intel Factory in ABQ, are we sure they weren't doing a drone light show? (not being serious)

lmel2005 · Oct 14, 2018

JSKCKNIT said:
Funny as soon as I read the title to the thread, I said this is why we can't have nice things!

There's an Intel Factory in ABQ, are we sure they weren't doing a drone light show? (not being serious)

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