I am sorry but this is stupid. You are flying a 500 - 1,500 dollar phantom. They are flying a plane potentially worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. Pilots in a specific class of airspace are allowed to fly as low as they want as long as they pose no threat to persons or property. YOU as a drone operator need to be aware of your craft and surrounding crafts. Flying is all about right of way and as a craft that has no living being inside are on the bottom of the totem pole for right of way.
As for no reason to be below 1000 feet what about crop dusters or low flight gas line inspections.
Also even a helicopter pilot isn't going to be able to spot a drone as small as a phantom very easily. I think some of the people on this forum need to take some actual flight classes and get some respect for the other members of the flight community and not assume anything.
It's stupid that if you initiate emergency procedures that low you're dead anyway. And I respectfully said, IMO regardless of how strongly you feel. Exactly my point though. They're flying hundreds of thousands of dollars. Stay up away from where people can risk your life and money. Why trust someone isn't going to break rules, I don't. This is just an alternative opinion to your own. Doesn't make anything stupid, only ignorant people make things stupid. I have been a skydiver for 6 years and a pilot for 11 and there's no need to fly that low WITHOUT an SFOC. Small aircraft should be at or above 3000' unless necessary. In an emergency, that leaves 5 seconds to pull your chute, 800-1000 for it to open and 1000 to safely fly your landing pattern which as a pilot would take a minute to figure out if was left or right handed providing you didn't already know which isn't likely considering the nature of an emergency.
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