Lufthansa flight nearly collides with drone at 5000 feet
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[QUOTE=pentium;49962660]5000 feet is nuts. That indeed will not be your storebought model.[/QUOTE]
Yes it could easily be. The Phantom for instance has a max altitude of 6000ft, though the battery would probably die before it landed
[editline]20th March 2016[/editline]
[QUOTE=Kommodore;49963609]its obnoxious how defensive people get about drones.[/QUOTE]
What is wrong with drones? People who fly them dangerously should be punished, but safe use is fine. It's the same argument with cars - should we ban them just because there are some idiots out there who will abuse them?
Anyway, drone safety is becoming a concern for manufacturers like DJI. They are trying to prevent idiots like this getting away with it. For instance, if you attempt to fly in a potentially dangerous area (e.g. near an airport), it won't let you. If you attempt to fly in a slightly less dangerous area (e.g. slightly further away from the airport), it will force you to register your name, serial number, and address before it lets you fly there. There are some good movements happening to ensure the safe use of these things, it's a shame we have idiots like the guy in the article giving drones a bad name
[QUOTE=Trumple;49968386]Yes it could easily be. The Phantom for instance has a max altitude of 6000ft, though the battery would probably die before it landed
[editline]20th March 2016[/editline]
What is wrong with drones? People who fly them dangerously should be punished, but safe use is fine. It's the same argument with cars - should we ban them just because there are some idiots out there who will abuse them?
Anyway, drone safety is becoming a concern for manufacturers like DJI. They are trying to prevent idiots like this getting away with it. For instance, if you attempt to fly in a potentially dangerous area (e.g. near an airport), it won't let you. If you attempt to fly in a slightly less dangerous area (e.g. slightly further away from the airport), it will force you to register your name, serial number, and address before it lets you fly there. There are some good movements happening to ensure the safe use of these things, it's a shame we have idiots like the guy in the article giving drones a bad name[/QUOTE]
People aren't saying ban them, you just need to regulate and monitor their use because someone like whoever the twonk in the OPs example is at risk of causing a massive accident. It's sort of like how don't let people fly without a pilots license because otherwise you'd get idiots causing massive aircraft accidents.
[QUOTE=carcarcargo;49968657]People aren't saying ban them, you just need to regulate and monitor their use because someone like whoever the twonk in the OPs example is at risk of causing a massive accident. It's sort of like how don't let people fly without a pilots license because otherwise you'd get idiots causing massive aircraft accidents.[/QUOTE]
Agreed. It's a tricky one, because it's fairly easy to make your own from standard components, so even if they were regulated, people could easily get around the restrictions. There's no network to detect or control drones like there is with real aircraft, so there's no way to track them unless the drones voluntarily submit their movements to some database accessible by an agency. And, unlike a car or an aircraft, you can pilot them from a great distance, so it could be hard to find the operator.
The US is trying to push for registering all drones, so that serial numbers are linked to a person. This makes sense IMO, but again, it's something someone could get around by removing the serial number or something.
There's no easy solution to it. The standard model the world applies to things like cars and aircraft, of formal training, testing, and licensing is very difficult to apply to these devices, because they're so cheap, small, and widely available. Even if you mandate that all drone operators should pass some test, what are you going to do to a drone operator standing 2km away who is flying dangerously? You have no hope of catching them
[QUOTE=DrDevil;49964472]Hobbyist Quadrocopters can easily fly much higher than 5000 feet. It will be hard to control them without FPV gear at some point though.[/QUOTE]
I don't think 5000 feet is possible for any quad, maybe octocopter, but flying my hex at even 300 feet was pushing it, there's just too much wind
Birdstrikes don't just affect the engine. Lots of talk of ingestion in this thread and how the Airbus managed a water landing with both engines out. There is danger from an object colliding with a control surface (or control surfaces) and that could bring much more risk to the aircraft than having engine(s) out.
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