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Post by quadbod on Jan 14, 2015 19:04:01 GMT
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Post by quadbod on Jan 14, 2015 19:08:56 GMT
Oh..... and while I'm here.... this could be a well used smiley on a farming type forum....  |
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Post by 4wd on Jan 14, 2015 19:44:28 GMT
They seem desperate to muddle up toy ones like mine with the military ones (which I think that was, and a year ago but they looking for stories to stir things just now).
Here I must say it would be concerning if mine was at perfectly legal 400 feet and some of the military helicopters and low flying planes we get whooshed past - as they often bend the rules by coming lower than they should.
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Post by rgsp on Jan 15, 2015 13:45:42 GMT
Small, short range, fixed-wing drones have been in use by the military for 60 years, mainly as targets, and to my knowledge collisions or over-close encounters with them have been so rare as to be negligible.
The present generation of long range drones carrying offensive weapons is still new, but the low numbers and usage patterns taken together mean that there still isn't an air traffic control problem.
Small domestic scale drones, often but not always quadracopters, do bring a whole new raft of potential problems, and I think a change in regulations is getting urgent if there are not going to be people killed or serious damage to property. Where 4WD lives, there should be no overcrowding problems, only very minor privacy problems, and any very low flying m.ilitary aircraft can either take their chances, or declare an exclusion zone in advance. In suburbia or towns though, it's easy to see that drones could become both an irritation, intrusion of privacy, and possible safety hazard. In such areas, my guess is that new regulations will be brought in quite soon, and they may be fairly draconian.
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