Moderator Comment by Gary Mortimer on January 30, 2013 at 3:34am

I was told about it yesterday and put out a call on sUAS News for info, pretty sure its a DJI zenmuse Spreading Wings S800 and that the purple blinking suggests the Hex was in "position hold" 

So perhaps shows that GPS does not work so well in an area with a restricted view of the sky. 

http://www.suasnews.com/2013/01/20813/hexacopter-crash-castelo-stad...

Comment by Jason Wise on January 30, 2013 at 3:41am

Pilot too excited and fast....what a muppet!

Assistant Admin Comment by Joshua Johnson on January 30, 2013 at 5:55am

For every video like this us as a community needs to create 100 videos of successful flights. Lesson learned about flying it above an area full of people.  Rule #1 never fly above people. Thanks for Sharing Mark very informational!

Joshua Johnson

Comment by Emery c. Chandler on January 30, 2013 at 6:26am

i agree with joshua, now one of things we also need to do is find a way to safely get it down in a cato-fail.

Developer Comment by R_Lefebvre on January 30, 2013 at 6:55am

IMO, the more RTF the aircraft is, the more likely we are to see this sort of thing.

Comment by Kevin Brown on January 30, 2013 at 7:35am

If it work similar the Phantom, the 3 red flashes indicate that the unit can only see 3 sats. not enough for gps hold....so apparently they did not even read the instructions. It would not surprise me if  it was the first flight for the aircraft and pilot

I have never done any RF testing in a stadium but can only guess how bad it could be. I had some gps hold problems a couple of weeks ago and I was 300 yard away from the Cell tower 

Comment by Rafael on January 30, 2013 at 8:25am

Face Bandit - https://twitter.com/jarbas_oliveira/status/295964134116315136/photo...

Comment by Kevin Brown on January 30, 2013 at 8:41am

Wow some one had some extra cash to burn 3k just for the gimbal 

Comment by R. D. Starwalt on January 30, 2013 at 10:19am

The level of ignorant trust that is exhibited in the technology is amazing.

Unless the fans are signing waivers, what would posess any facility to allow a multirotor to fly anywhere near the fans? For that matter, even if the stadium was empty (it was fairly sparse) and the players were in scrimmage, the danger is no less. To injure a paid professional athlete would have caused a global black mark on the technology.

Wow. Just plain wow.

-=Doug

Comment by Josh Potter on January 30, 2013 at 10:23am

Remember that these are not DIY people just flying around for fun in a stadium.  The stadiums often pay companies to fly them around and hand out promotions and coupons.

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