When you see city ordinances and park rules and regulations regarding flying RC aircraft or model aircraft, does that automatically included drones?
Please help me understand why the difference is important and why it might be unsafe to fly a remote control airplane in a crowded city park but perhaps not a drone.
I don't have too much knowledge about model aircraft so aside from the technical differences (regarding the naming, etc) how would you tell someone that your drone is not much like a model aircraft and should not be regarded as the same? The drone doesn't need a runway to take off and land? The drone can hover and has sensors to avoid people and objects? The drone has a camera so you can guide it while flying more precisely rather than strictly relying on VLOS? The drone tends not to crash land when the battery is depleted or when it exceed the range of the remote controller?
Don't know how much of this is true or not but as you know, for many many years before drones became popular, lots of places prohibited flying RC planes, perhaps for good reason, and you didn't see RC planes flying there but only at designated airfields. Today, those rules and regulations haven't changed and with drones on the scene, are we automatically swept under the same? Very little experience with flying at designated fields because the few that I have seen has said NO DRONES.
Looking for thoughts and opinions and ideas about how you see it.
Please help me understand why the difference is important and why it might be unsafe to fly a remote control airplane in a crowded city park but perhaps not a drone.
I don't have too much knowledge about model aircraft so aside from the technical differences (regarding the naming, etc) how would you tell someone that your drone is not much like a model aircraft and should not be regarded as the same? The drone doesn't need a runway to take off and land? The drone can hover and has sensors to avoid people and objects? The drone has a camera so you can guide it while flying more precisely rather than strictly relying on VLOS? The drone tends not to crash land when the battery is depleted or when it exceed the range of the remote controller?
Don't know how much of this is true or not but as you know, for many many years before drones became popular, lots of places prohibited flying RC planes, perhaps for good reason, and you didn't see RC planes flying there but only at designated airfields. Today, those rules and regulations haven't changed and with drones on the scene, are we automatically swept under the same? Very little experience with flying at designated fields because the few that I have seen has said NO DRONES.
Looking for thoughts and opinions and ideas about how you see it.