This news article is scary. Drone colliding with an airplane won't be good.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/todayinth ... h/8904829/
http://www.usatoday.com/story/todayinth ... h/8904829/
varmint said:Start following the law by staying under 400 feet
pyrophantom said:Hence DJIs attempts to prevent your phantom straying into airspace for aircraft.
There really is no limits to the stupidity of some people and they need to be found and have their bollocks removed with very rusty impliments ! As I have already mentioned elsewhere in another similar story, its the pathetic thick and brainless minority who will have legislators rubbing their hands at new draconian measures which wont affect the idiots as they have no means of comprehending the meaning of it all.......but it will effect the vast majority who fly responsibly.
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varmint said:It doesn't help matters when media starts substituting apples with marshmallows when they casually post file photos of "drones" (multirotors) that typically can't fly higher than a couple thousand feet, with incidents that are obviously involving military UAVs flying at airliner cruising altitudes.
When CNN was reporting this earlier they had an A.R. drone sitting on the desk next to the reporters as if it was somehow synonymous or in any way even remotely relted to this incident. We will be regulated into oblivion due in part to the stupidity of the media, combined with the the stupidity of our very own brethren trying to prove how high they can fly. Start following the law by staying under 400 feet and outside controlled airspace, or one of you is going to kill this hobby along with a lot of other people. The FAA is chomping at the bit to shut us all down, and the media is too uninformed to make proper disticntiins when bad things happen, so don't give them any more ammunition.