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A drone crashes into a house in Boulder Colorado.
Boulder residents raise concerns after drone hits Mapleton Hill home
Boulder residents raise concerns after drone hits Mapleton Hill home
A drone hits my house almost every time I fly in my yard.
Just more fear mongering. I would wager that more people are killed or seriously injured by objects falling from conventional aircraft than drones will ever cause.
BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | What happens to ice falling from planes?
Pieces regularly fall off planes, and officials duck the issue Airlines, government say problem is insignificant
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I llke everyone else is concerned when we see these stories. I live in suburban area in Orange County California. I have two DJI "DRONES" - a P1 and a new P3S. I was coming home and I saw a DJI Phantom about 250 feet over my neighborhood. It wasn't directly over my house, but nearby. Two ladies walking along saw it, and one said to the other "I HEAR YOU CAN SHOOT THEM DOWN IF THEY ARE OVER YOUR PROPERTY". - I wanted to intervene and tell her not only is she wrong (discharge of firearm in city limit), you are more likely to cause more damage if you shot it down, and they lose control. Everyday we walk by ATM's, Stores with Camera's Department stores with Camera's and we don't complain. If someone has a Camera on a drone, they are invading your privacy? What is up with that????A drone crashes into a house in Boulder Colorado.
Boulder residents raise concerns after drone hits Mapleton Hill home
I agree calling them "DRONES" is a bad idea, but that is how we are identified. I fly my P1 around, sometimes with No camera, just so I don't have to have people worry when I fly near them, or their KID and I am filming them. I do have a Go-pro mount, and can put a camera. If someone had a worry that I was filming them or my kid, I would gladly give them the SD CARD. I would not be stupid enough to hover over someone and film them. We need a media campaign to let them know that we are responsible citizens. The other day, I was getting ready to launch my P1 at a park, and a dog made a B-Line to my drone. I immediately stopped the rotors, and let it sniff. I was more worried that the dog would get hurt, then him hurting my UAV. That is how I remain responsible.News Flash ... If you fly them you will crash them. I can't tell you how many "things" I've hit over my 41 years flying R/C aircraft. I've hit myself, others, a parked car, a moving car, powerlines, trees, buildings, a pond, a lake, and a cow.
At NONE of those scenes was there a news crew... why? Because we didn't call them DRONES! The media is killing the industry and knuckle heads doing dumb things (which this may or may NOT have been) is only adding fuel to the fire.
Everyday we walk by ATM's, Stores with Camera's Department stores with Camera's and we don't complain. If someone has a Camera on a drone, they are invading your privacy? What is up with that????
......................................................................................................, a horseless carriage in 1905 caused several horses to spook, one throwing a rider. Horseless carriages are therefor banned.
...So drone injuries have already, in just a couple of years, significantly outnumbered those. That doesn't seem like a good wager.
Small UAVs do not pose any significant risk to people
Small UAVs do not pose any significant risk to people or the National Airspace System. "Dangerous" and "invasion of privacy" concerns are ridiculous, driven by paranoia borne of ignorance. We don't need fact-challenged posts like this to add to the public hysteria. There is absolutely no factual evidence to support the fear of personal drones. There have been more than a million of hours of flight time using these small aircraft worldwide, yet there is not one verifiable report of a drone crash in the US that resulted in a serious injury as defined by the FAA in CFR 49-830.2 to someone not connected to the flight. **Not one**. (A Band-Aid is not a serious injury). It is a safety record that all other segments of aviation would be jealous to have. (In the General Aviation fleet 100,000 hours 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?
We don't need fact-challenged posts like this?
There have been more than a million of hours of flight time using these small aircraft worldwide, yet there is not one verifiable report of a drone crash in the US