Saw this article on yahoo.com
https://www.yahoo.com/tech/s/12-drone-disasters-show-why-120000763.html
https://www.yahoo.com/tech/s/12-drone-disasters-show-why-120000763.html
IrishSights said:I don't think the FAA 'hates' drones. Give them a bit of credit.
IrishSights said:I don't think the FAA 'hates' drones. Give them a bit of credit.
fastsmiles said:Sensationalism at its best. The media loves to milk every incident involving a drone for all it is worth.
SteveMann said:You may be interested in my letter to the author:
Reply to Conner Forest, TechRepublic
Regarding: "12 drone disasters that show why the FAA hates drones"
You have a remarkably low threshold of "disaster".
Small UAVs do not pose any significant risk to the National Airspace System. "Dangerous" and "invasion of privacy" concerns are ridiculous, driven by paranoia borne of ignorance.
There is absolutely no factual evidence to support the fear and ignorance around small personal drones. There have been hundreds of thousands of hours of flight time using these small aircraft in the US and possibly more than a million hours worldwide, yet there is not one verifiable report of a drone crash that resulted in a serious injury to someone not connected to the flight. Not one. (A Band-Aid is not a serious injury- See CFR 49-820.2). It is a safety record that all other segments of aviation would be jealous to have. (According to the AOPA Air Safety Foundation, 100,000 hours in the General Aviation fleet would include at least one fatality.) Where's the blood and mayhem to justify the perception that small personal drones are a threat to public safety?
I am not saying that a serious accident can't or won't happen. It probably will in the future, but the fear of personal drones is hugely overstated.
By the way, if you need something really to be terrified from, don't ever go to a golf course. (http://golf.heraldtribune.com/2010/11/2 ... -uncommon/)
Considering your profound low threshold for "disaster", how do you ever leave your home to go to work?
From item 6 in the article, where a drone was reportedly above a news helicopter at around 1500 ft, and where a spokesman said a collision could have caused a catastrophe:Hughie said:Well if they can only find 12 out of all the hundreds of thousands of flights over the last couple of years that's pretty good.
Now where is that dictionary of mine. I need to check what the word disaster means - it seems to have changed whilst I wasn't looking
An average of 25 incidents are reported every month involving drones that are flying too close to commerical aircraft, an FAA spokesperson added.
Narrator said:From item 6 in the article, where a drone was reportedly above a news helicopter at around 1500 ft, and where a spokesman said a collision could have caused a catastrophe:Hughie said:Well if they can only find 12 out of all the hundreds of thousands of flights over the last couple of years that's pretty good.
Now where is that dictionary of mine. I need to check what the word disaster means - it seems to have changed whilst I wasn't looking
An average of 25 incidents are reported every month involving drones that are flying too close to commerical aircraft, an FAA spokesperson added.