You are talking to nine year olds.Seriously, it's like I'm talking to a 9 year old
You are talking to nine year olds.Seriously, it's like I'm talking to a 9 year old
Really, you just don't get it. Drivers licenses don't make good drivers, training and practice does. I grew up on a farm I drove equipment on the road by myself since age 9. I followed the rules and didn't cause problems. I didn't magically become a driver when I turned 16 and memorized the drivers manual well enough to to pass the test.
So would that help the issue I brought up where my altitude limit kept me from going over a foothill, even though I was only 75 feet off the ground since my starting point was 400 feet below? Or is this just a totally unrelated point so I stop flogging elementary children.Raytheon is working on a airborne system that can detect active signatures common to consumer drones. The system is supposedly capable of altitude recognition to a resolution of 25 feet and locating the transmission source paired to the drone.
Pilots is one thing but it's gonna be hard to require licenses when any idiot will be able to go into best buy and buy a drone and fly it anywhere.You actually believe that people who support having pilots or drivers be licensed is because we believe it makes them magically "good"? Don't you do realize that in order to get a driver's license you're required to have TRAINING AND PRACTICE - the two things you just said made good drivers?
You may actually be in elementary school right now.
Stop flogging the children...So would that help the issue I brought up where my altitude limit kept me from going over a foothill, even though I was only 75 feet off the ground since my starting point was 400 feet below? Or is this just a totally unrelated point so I stop flogging elementary children.
As I've said before we as a community would be better served if we worked with manufacturers so that you had to earn your privileges through flying and reading the manual and laws before the app let you fly or remove limits. Hell, put a test in it. Some will hack it, some will still home brew a drone."Again I want the same thing as you, people to follow rules"
YOU HAVE TO MAKE RULES FOR PEOPLE TO FOLLOW. And when you're operating something that can go thousands of feet in the air and thus FALL thousands of feet in the air you need to be certain they understand what those rules are. You need to be able to read Class B No-Fly zones, something I sure as hell didn't when I went to Vegas and apparently broke every law there was. I was stupid enough to trust the no-fly zones DJI loaded into my GPS and avoided them, come to find out? They were wrong. Had I been trained and licensed I would've looked at the Class B no-fly zones that go from 400 feet all the way to the GROUND and then, I wouldn't have broken the law.
See the point? You need training. You need a certification system. And considering what I just admitted to not knowing, I'm pretty sure I'm the last person to be profiting off TEACHING these classes.
The bottom line is, if we don't as a community push for this? We're 1 or 2 accidents away from an outright ban of consumer drones. Ban. Done. Congress will have NO issue getting that passed when a couple of kids die. Get these laws in place NOW and we'll avoid that.
It's not a toy. For the millionth time, it's not a toy. The fact that you think that proves the very point we're all saying.As I've said before we as a community would be better served if we worked with manufacturers so that you had to earn your privileges through flying and reading the manual and laws before the app let you fly or remove limits. Hell, put a test in it. Some will hack it, some will still home brew a drone.
Government involvement in the form of a required license in my opinion is the last thing we need for a toy.
"Again I want the same thing as you, people to follow rules"
YOU HAVE TO MAKE RULES FOR PEOPLE TO FOLLOW. And when you're operating something that can go thousands of feet in the air and thus FALL thousands of feet in the air you need to be certain they understand what those rules are. You need to be able to read Class B No-Fly zones, something I sure as hell didn't when I went to Vegas and apparently broke every law there was. I was stupid enough to trust the no-fly zones DJI loaded into my GPS and avoided them, come to find out? They were wrong. Had I been trained and licensed I would've looked at the Class B no-fly zones that go from 400 feet all the way to the GROUND and then, I wouldn't have broken the law.
See the point? You need training. You need a certification system. And considering what I just admitted to not knowing, I'm pretty sure I'm the last person to be profiting off TEACHING these classes.
The bottom line is, if we don't as a community push for this? We're 1 or 2 accidents away from an outright ban of consumer drones. Ban. Done. Congress will have NO issue getting that passed when a couple of kids die. Get these laws in place NOW and we'll avoid that.
I think the point is regulations won't fix stupid. See also: guns. Responsible gun owners don't need laws.
People will do stupid **** and post it on YouTube. Laws will not make this go away.
Excellent.. What happens when your safely "Snapping Your Shot At 1500 feet", in controlled airspace and the drone goes into RTH mode and starts flying autonomously at that altitude? What if something goes wrong, and you lose or drop control signal? What about a flyaway? Real Pilots are constantly taking into consideration redundancy and plans for an emergency.. Which Drone operators are less likely to consider because they are not putting their *** on the line.In case I was misunderstood... I'm talking about 'operating' at 1500 feet. I'm talking about going up, snapping some shots of a video and coming down. I can hear a plane coming. I can see a plane coming. I can do this quite safely... until they come up with a Cessna that operates in the <1500 foot range and does Mach 2, no one is going to die. Get over your sheeple selves.
That said, this is my first Phantom and it hasn't been over 215 feet yet, that's scary high! I just enjoy ruffling the wool on the sheep.
To me it is. I have or had cars, motorcycles, atv's and guns that I've had for no other reason than to play with. I don't have my phantom for business or building my internet blog life nor do I post on YouTube. It's purely a fun hobby to me hence another toy in my collection. Others opinions may vary.It's not a toy. For the millionth time, it's not a toy. The fact that you think that proves the very point we're all saying.
Excellent.. What happens when your safely "Snapping Your Shot At 1500 feet", in controlled airspace and the drone goes into RTH mode and starts flying autonomously at that altitude? What if something goes wrong, and you lose or drop control signal? What about a flyaway? Real Pilots are constantly taking into consideration redundancy and plans for an emergency.. Which Drone operators are less likely to consider because they are not putting their *** on the line.