Why would any of us buy a uav if we followed the rules to the letter. If we cannot fly where people are nearby we would hardly ever take off and we certainly couldn't go to the local park which you see in many videos.
I agree some rules need to be adhered to, airports etc. but it is common sense at the end of the day and just being aware of your environment. The newest drones are much safer than there predecessors and rarely fall or fly away and have sensors to stop collisions with many accidents being pilot error from what i have read in these forums.
I have not spent £1200 to video the sea and fields so I will continue to fly areas I feel give me good video but will also assess the environment first and weigh up the safety aspects of a flight.
I think how much anyone spends on their drone is irrelevant.
I could say I didn't spend £80k on a car to drive 70mph on motorway. That doesn't make it right. If everyone said that, what rules would we have. Everyone's common sense varies greatly. People have different ideas of what is right and what is not - take Brexit or Trump election for example.
Sending drones out on automated missions means we have no control. Like in this case, operator error meant that his drone landed in someone's garden.
Had that been on busy road, anything could have happened.
At the end of the day, the operator is responsible for their craft, not try to blame
Litchi or DJI for their f@&£k up first as happened here. Of course tech is improving but you cannot assure me you will never have an accident with your drone.
It would be nice to get a consensus of what is acceptable and what is not. How many miles from airports or Houses of Parliament doesn't really matter in the end because as shown here, plenty of people would probably think the footage is nice and they have paid premium for their drone to fly where they like, where they think they can.
A select few should not be excluded from rules, otherwise everyone should. I would like to fly over cities day and night, one way automated missions, sneak into National Trust land to defy the volunteers to come and tell me off. I would like to film over village greens on village fetes and marinas full of boats and harbours full of ships. I could say here that it's all ok, I paid £500 for my drone and I'm not going to film lakes and fields. I haven't crashed and my drone is safe.
Really??
Come on.
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