The drone community is going to kill drone use

DPStewart said:
Countdown to banning ALL drone use and making it FAA regulated at all levels in 10...9...8...7...6...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...f812ae-4737-11e5-846d-02792f854297_story.html
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The thing is ... FAA advisories, public attitudes, and common sense all ALREADY make it absolutely clear that it is unacceptable to fly drones around airport runways or at 10,000 feet. So it's not clear to me that tougher regulations or more stringent licencing are going to have much effect on the behavior of the morons who are doing this.
 
GrahamH said:
The thing is ... FAA advisories, public attitudes, and common sense all ALREADY make it absolutely clear that it is unacceptable to fly drones around airport runways or at 10,000 feet. So it's not clear to me that tougher regulations or more stringent licencing are going to have much effect on the behavior of the morons who are doing this.
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ONE person gets killed because ONE plane or helicopter crashed into a drone and it will be all over. Private drone operation will be made ILLEGAL.

And it looks like that ought to happen any day now.
 
DPStewart said:
ONE person gets killed because ONE plane or helicopter crashed into a drone and it will be all over.
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I really doubt that a death will happen "any day now". Planes hit objects bigger than hobby drones all the time, but very rarely fall out of the sky as a consequence.

"From 1990 through 2007 aircraft in the United States (and some U.S. airliners abroad) collided with 369 conclusively identified species of birds. The birds included loons, grebes, pelicans, cormorants, herons, storks, egrets, swans, ducks, vultures, hawks, eagles, cranes, sandpipers, seagulls, pigeons, cuckoos, owls, turkeys, blackbirds, crows, chickadees, woodpeckers, hummingbirds, mockingbirds, parrots, and a single parakeet. Over the same period, airplanes officially collided with bats on 253 occasions. Furthermore, they had 760 official collisions with deer, 252 with coyotes, 182 with rabbits, 120 with rodents including porcupines, 74 with turtles, 59 with opossums, 16 with armadillos, 14 with alligators, 7 with iguanas, 4 with moose, 2 with caribou, and one each with a wild pig and a donkey. There was also an official collision with a fish, though the fish was in the grasp of an osprey at the time." http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2009/06/us_airways200906
 
GrahamH said:
I really doubt that a death will happen "any day now". Planes hit objects bigger than hobby drones all the time, but very rarely fall out of the sky as a consequence.

"From 1990 through 2007 aircraft in the United States (and some U.S. airliners abroad) collided with 369 conclusively identified species of birds. The birds included loons, grebes, pelicans, cormorants, herons, storks, egrets, swans, ducks, vultures, hawks, eagles, cranes, sandpipers, seagulls, pigeons, cuckoos, owls, turkeys, blackbirds, crows, chickadees, woodpeckers, hummingbirds, mockingbirds, parrots, and a single parakeet. Over the same period, airplanes officially collided with bats on 253 occasions. Furthermore, they had 760 official collisions with deer, 252 with coyotes, 182 with rabbits, 120 with rodents including porcupines, 74 with turtles, 59 with opossums, 16 with armadillos, 14 with alligators, 7 with iguanas, 4 with moose, 2 with caribou, and one each with a wild pig and a donkey. There was also an official collision with a fish, though the fish was in the grasp of an osprey at the time." http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2009/06/us_airways200906
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All those incidents and it will only take one drone for the FAA to put a halt on everything.
 
Marino215 said:
All those incidents and it will only take one drone for the FAA to put a halt on everything.
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Exactly.

The article I posted at the top of this page - that's pretty much what it is saying. That the FAA is being put in a spot they are going to have to respond to.
 
It's a big business, of course they're gonna regulate it. I fly and get paid for it, that's the only law I break. Most of these people have no business owning a drone let alone fly near air traffic. Start throwing them in jail and see how people abide. There's no crime flying low (400 ft) away from pedestrians but as soon as you put innocent lives in danger it has to stop.
 
Andrius Simutis said:
Absolutely true, but...you're missing the bigger point. It's not the buzzing that's the issue since real helicopters make a lot more noise, it's that to most people it's non essential buzzing. That DJI Phantom3 is not flying a critically injured person to the hospital or tracking down a violent criminal. The jackhammer down the block is much louder, but since I'll need to drive on that street and use the water from the line they're fixing I'm not really going to get too annoyed. Such is life while sharing this planet. However, if my neighbor took up recreational jackhammering as a hobby, then yeah I'd be annoyed after a while. Add in the natural tendency to not like being spied on (i know, nobody's spying but average people still get that feeling regardless), and you can see why people start to dislike drones.
Remember those little motorcycles that were like a foot tall that you could ride around on from like ten years ago? They were really popular and now they're gone due mostly to being regulated away. People started to get annoyed by them and there was a little bit of a safety concern so then the laws (many of which were already on the books) started to make it not so much fun to ride with constantly getting ticketed by the cops. So many tickets and laws and the makers couldn't even sell them anymore. That could easily happen with personal remote control multi rotors.
Of course, I'm not saying I want that to happen but if drone pilots keep pulling crap like preventing firefighters from flying over wild fires it's looking more and more likely that it will happen.
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Most of the helicopter noise in my neighborhood comes from sightseeing flights, and they are a lot noisier drones.
 
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