A pretty cool advert. TBH Audi (VW) need to look at telling the truth about there own products (hint: emissions) than showing SciFi adverts. Cheers.I was really disturbed by an Audi car commercial I saw the other day where drones were chasing people and the tag line was something like "technology doesn't have to be intimidating" - It's pretty infuriating because this car company is taking an unnecessary swipe at drones for no good reason...
Here is is:
Just wanted to comment on the drone vs the turbine engine. I work on those type engines and ours turn 22,300 rpm's. We have to keep the roads clean do to grains of sand can trash the engine. The drone would seriously damage the engine. On the other hand if you get caught flying the bird some where you shouldn't you need to be made an example out of !!!!!Wow... interesting read. I am an advocate for this. However... If they are getting 100 reports a month on drone sightings, then it would be very interested to see the frozen chicken test applied to the Phantoms. What would a phantom do to an engine or window on impact? Is the way the phantom constructed more stronger than a frozen chicken? Would the motors (I think they are the hardest component on the drone) disintegrate on in the turbine and cause any damage or engine failure??
I wouldn't want mythbusters doing this as they got it wrong in the past. If you want to know, MB used a motor and a prop and "forced" the spinning prop into the pigs flesh as said it deemed it deadly. We know in real life that the phantom would bounce off the object and probably scratch and worst case cause cuts. The only way I see a phantom really hurting someone is that it fell with terminal velocity due to motor failure.
The thread title is: "Just a heads up to those who ignore the rules."FAA tracking quadcopters who are disobeying off limit areas
Heres a link:
FAA could bust drone users by tracking radio waves
The baby in the stroller was hit by debris from the bird or something after it crashed onto the street. More media sensationalizing.
There have been hundreds of thousands of hours of flight of small drones, yet there is not one verifiable report of a drone crash that resulted in a serious injury as defined by the NTSB to someone not connected to the flight. Not one. (A Band-Aid is not a serious injury- See CFR 49 §830.2).
The baby in the carriage was not hit by the drone, but from debris thrown by the prop hitting the ground. She was taken to the ER for evaluation and sent home the same day. Not a serious injury, but you have to read past the sensational headlines to find that.
FAA and its government agency partners will evaluate the company’s UAS detection platform at select airports and aim to ensure that the activity will not disrupt normal operation at the sites.
At least I don't use a phony tail number for an ID. No CV info provided. While the P2V+ was announced in 2013, it indeed did not hit the market until April 2014.
I did not acquire mine until August this year. I seem to understand the systems better than a bunch of folks that post simplistic things such as "Yawn".
Now when someone wishes to have an intelligent discourse, I'll join the thread.
Do you have a link for that announcement?I set my RTH height over 160 feet. However, I am usually in a location where it is not necessary to be that high. I do my best to stay within the US FAA Limits that has a "Recreational Models Exemption", this restricts us to line of sight , no higher than 400 feet,and NO GPS waypoints . I have to fly this way since I fall under a very large No Fly Zone. I'm a long way to a Class A airspace, but just over 5 miles from a Class D airspace.
The US FAA just announced today that ALL drones are to be registered. Just too many folks that took it too far!
It's not even buttheads.OK ITS HERE THANKS TO ALL THE BUTTHEADS !
Feds to require drone registration after close calls
THANKS AHOLES FOR GETTING US REGULATED !
Easy to see this coming...with all the high profile news coverage... regulation is not going to stop those who don't care, they will continue to fly irresponsibly some will get caught and have to pay the price-- but those who observe safe flying standards are the real losers... hobbyists and businesses alike-- because they are the ones that will follow the regs and register their aircraft. There wont be enough profit for small operators to overcome the regulation cost which will include insurance coverage, registration fees and fines when minor violations occur. The cost business has just gone up for those folks trying to make a few bucks.OK ITS HERE THANKS TO ALL THE BUTTHEADS !
Feds to require drone registration after close calls
THANKS AHOLES FOR GETTING US REGULATED !
Task force will mandate drone registration process - CNNPolitics.com
Do you have a link for that announcement?
right in front of you and on my original post up topTry: <http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/19/politics/drone-registration-task-force-announced/index.html>
It has been on every news that I know of.
The Task Force will Develop the methods, procedures, and the infrastructure to handle this insanity. They will publish the whole procedure, the desired method of registration and the roll out in November. They want it in place prior to the Christmas purchasing period.
No one knows whet this will end up like right now. I don't "think" this will get down to the "nano quads", but whom knows?