Should Authorities reconsider line of sight with 360 drones ?

[Pacefast]

Part of the reason the Authorities insist on line of sight is the limited forward vision on Traditional drones so you wont see an aircraft on sides, behind, above or below a limited screen field of view !
Not the case with 360 drones where the pilot can look left, right, up, down or behind with better view ability than a pilot in a GA Aircraft like a Cessna .
Maybe with 360 the case should be made for out of line of sight Where the ability to look
all around is better than following s tiny speck with eyes

 

[pinzmann]

I agree.

 

[Droning on and on...]

In my opinion a big part of the reason for VLOS is the gross insufficiency of training as required by the TRUST mechanism, which won't be meaningfully helped by 360 observation capabilities.

Perhaps as part of modification to 107 certification, but training is exceedingly scant there too.

Visual scanning while flying is a habit as well as a practice, something that gets a lot of attention by the Flight Instructor for the newbie pilot learning to fly VFR. There's no equivalent learning to fly drones, so unless regs change in some way that virtually guarantees drone operators learn to automatically scan the skies around them, simply having the capability added to our drones isn't going to make enough of a difference to relax the regs.

 

[Droning on and on...]

To clarify, I do support relaxing the VLOS rules, but not because 360 views are becoming available. Rather, I think the risk is far, far less than the rule contemplates, existing incident history being the justification.

 

[Pacefast]

In my opinion a big part of the reason for VLOS is the gross insufficiency of training as required by the TRUST mechanism, which won't be meaningfully helped by 360 observation capabilities.

Perhaps as part of modification to 107 certification, but training is exceedingly scant there too.

Visual scanning while flying is a habit as well as a practice, something that gets a lot of attention by the Flight Instructor for the newbie pilot learning to fly VFR. There's no equivalent learning to fly drones, so unless regs change in some way that virtually guarantees drone operators learn to automatically scan the skies around them, simply having the capability added to our drones isn't going to make enough of a difference to relax the regs.

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 direction ( If he hasnt been following a Bird ) Is next to useless at present

 

[hank970]

In my opinion a big part of the reason for VLOS is the gross insufficiency of training as required by the TRUST mechanism, which won't be meaningfully helped by 360 observation capabilities.

Perhaps as part of modification to 107 certification, but training is exceedingly scant there too.

Visual scanning while flying is a habit as well as a practice, something that gets a lot of attention by the Flight Instructor for the newbie pilot learning to fly VFR. There's no equivalent learning to fly drones, so unless regs change in some way that virtually guarantees drone operators learn to automatically scan the skies around them, simply having the capability added to our drones isn't going to make enough of a difference to relax the regs.

That sounds like Part 107 snobbery to me. What part of the 107 exam tests a pilot's eyesight, his or her adherence to the rules, their control dexterity, or any other skill, attitude, or attribute which might relate to an operator maintaining VLOS?