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Governments can use real drones to kill people and still allowed to continue the death and destruction.
People need to get some perceptive here. I've been flying over 11 years and not one issue ever!
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This is very relevant to your comment. "In social psychology, the fundamental attribution error, also known as the correspondence bias or attribution effect, is the tendency for people to place an undue emphasis on internal characteristics (personality) to explain someone else's behavior in a given situation rather than considering the situation's external factors." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_attributi…
It's not just that. It happens always when a particular thing becomes of interest to the general population. Suddenly, domain-geeks are being swamped by normals who have little interest or experience in the domain itself, and they make stupid mistakes that sometimes end up being corrected with law. Happened to programming too.
Car nearly hits cyclist .... Wait no, the car actually hits cyclist dozens of times per day...
On the other hand, how exciting would this be: "Falling branch nearly misses skier!!!"
As someone else pointed out, daily occurrences are not worth talking about...
Maybe it's a translation thing, but I love how calmly the skier talks about the incident afterward. It would have been very easy to take the "F that drone pilot!" road, but instead he just says "Please be more careful next time."
I used to fly remote control aeroplanes as a hobby. There's a really strong culture of having a licence and insurance before you're allowed to fly solo. You have to pass a test before you can get insurance, and there are more tests if you want to fly around spectators (stunt shows, etc). This seems to be completely missing in the drone community. I quizzed some drone enthusiasts about it and they responded with "meh"…
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That sounds rubbish to be honest.
I think the intent was that he joined an RC club so he knew what planes/parts/tools/etc were quality and which were junk. Not that he had to actually join a club in order to purchase anything.
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Dainese (and others) have made airbags for professional motorcycle racers for several years now too. It's quite interesting tech.
Not only that, but Alpinestars sells a street jacket with an airbag system - along with their race suit. Hit Air (a system worn over your suit) has been in use by track riders for a couple of years now.
It was an official TV-video-quadcopter from an Italian local TV company. The FIS was initially okay with it. The quadcopter operater has a pilot license and was suposed to fly only in a specific corridor with no visitors nor athletes underneath. Though, the quadcopter (intentionally?) left the corridore several times in the minutes before the crash (for better videos?). https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=de&sl…
All of these companies, like DJI, and irresponsible operators, are ruining the hobby and placing property and people in danger.
I would never, in a million years, think of flying anything over people, crowds, kids, homes, commercial buildings, etc.
All of these systems are 0 F.T. (zero fault tolerant). Which means your decision making while flying them has to reflect the reality that the thing can fall out of the sky at any instant and there will be little or no control when this happens.
What this means in practical terms is that you fly these things EXACTLY as we've been flying model airplanes for decades: Away from people and property. In general, at approved flying fields (clubs) or in the middle of nowhere.
Bullshit like this is what is causing the FAA to now start down the path of treating model airplanes like guns: They are all bad. Never mind that millions of people have owned them for decades, fly them all the time and never hurt anyone. My fleet of probably thirty or so planes and helicopters has never placed even as much as a cat in danger. But, no, thanks to the stupid fucks who do crap like this now I have to register with the government because my planes and helicopters are going to magically charge their batteries, assemble themselves, open the garage door, fly out and hurt people, all while I am watching TV at home.
The irony isn't lost on me here. This is exactly the gun argument. Drones don't hurt people, stupid people with drones hurt people. Let's go after them, not the drones.
Really sad to see media trying to make UAV's look bad. Instead of investigating why it happened they just want to ban them. Governments can use real drones to kill people and still allowed to continue the death and destruction. People need to get some perceptive here. I've been flying over 11 years and not one issue ever!
The media shouldn't blow this out of proportion - if quads are banned they will regret loosing such awesome aerial footage.
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Yup. And the carnage created brought operator licensing, mandatory registration, mandatory & regulated insurance for personal liability in most states and a substantial traffic code + police to enforce said code.
But people have been flying RC forever. It's not like it's a new hobby. AMA has been around for 80 years. It's just a fad right now. Everyone couldn't fly 4 channel airplanes or 6 channel helicopters, but a monkey could fly a quadcopter. The same guy who gets into RC airplanes and helis is not the same person who gets into quadcopters. From what I've seen the quadcopter community does not feel like the regular RC com…