Amen!Park ranger today told me misdemeanor to fly in the local county park. I Love California priorities. You can shootup heroin in public and that’s ok but fly a drone or use a plastic straw ..... oh no.
Amen!Park ranger today told me misdemeanor to fly in the local county park. I Love California priorities. You can shootup heroin in public and that’s ok but fly a drone or use a plastic straw ..... oh no.
Polar bears in Antarctica?
Irresponsible flying will lead to more and more restrictive legislation on these things. Transponders are coming and right behind them is stiff penalties for careless operations. The community...mostly the outliers...will be solely responsible for it.
The future may be that DJI or any other manufacture will require a UAS tickets to even buy one.
Is that directly from the part 107 preparations?So true. And I never really thought about how my own less desirable decisions in life could have been so easily characterized as one of these 5 basic hazardous attitudes identified of Pilots by the FAA. Just some food for self reflection:
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WOuld you really?Great 12 gauge targets
I think we have to get things in proportion. If you are about half a mile away and decide to get very close to a building, fillming or not the likelihood of misjudying things at this distance are fairly high. The potential for injury to bystanders must also be high. A professional flyer on a contract requring they get close to building would get as close as possible to prevent injury to others and Thier equipment. At his distance the operator will not hear the drone. As a regular flyer one of the first things I do is get the noisy buger far enough away to enable myself to think. If you are flying very close to a building the noise put out by the drone will be extremely irritating particularly if you are on a balcony enjoing the sun.I was chatting to my sister who rents an apartment in Spain during the winter months (alright for some!) The apartment is on about the fourth floor overlooking the sea. She was telling me that they were watching someone flying a drone on the beach (about half a mile away) when he decided to fly along the front of the apartments very close up aparently videoing the interiors. Now there is someone I would like to have a chat with.
My sister hadn't realised that that sort of activity is illegal but certainly does now! I advised a high powered water gun.
Yep and for good reason as in this case **Yeah people really hate drones
Yep the majority of people are fairly neural about drones, in fact when you come across people when flying they tend to be interested and are positiveYep and fir good reason as in this case **
...there are commercially produced “drone catchers”, including the one in the video below that is deployed from another drone:
Drone Catcher Drone Fires Nets At Lesser Drones
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Great 12 gauge targets
While on vacation in Hawaii, I flew over the water from our rented condo. I came back and took one pic of my wife and I from close range (maybe 30 second hover.). I then landed it in a large empty lawn area below. When I went down to collect my landed Mavic I was confronted by a fellow renter who told me that I had flown by every unit in the building, looking into their units. This building was nine stories high with ten units on each floor. I got my MacBook and showed him my whole flight. He was very embarrassed when he saw what had actually happened. He got to asking me about drone flying in general and the Mavic in particular. I would say that in the end, he seemed very interested in a good way. But it was a lesson learned to me about how sensitive people are about drones. Needless to say, I made no more approaches anywhere near the building. And I would recommend my experience to be passed on as a lesson learned.
Drone observers are not always the most accurate source of info. And the way over estimate our equipment.
What?Your just as bad, I do shoot deer and also put them in my freezer. I and most others use their guns as they are intended.
Few post back someone said if you shoot animals you'd shoot at a droneWhat?
Few post back someone said if you shoot animals you'd shoot at a drone