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  Nicholas Witham January 23, 2014 at 4:59pm

  I wish I was in Sydney.

  Oh wait, that's right, I crashed my quads and am waiting for spares, so no flying for me for at least another 2 weeks. *A tear is rolling down my cheek.*
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  Tony Foate May 27, 2013 at 1:05am

  I will know in the next few days if I am staying in Sydney or relocating.

  I like the idea of some company to help make these machines work well.

  Now that I have my small quadcopter flying OK, I would like to get FPV working well too. I am trying to put 2 cameras on the quad, a Hero GoPro and a small Sony CCD. I like the idea of being able to switch back and forth between them.
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  Eddie Furey May 15, 2013 at 11:56am

  A Sydney group would be good, I'd join too.
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  Tony Foate April 16, 2013 at 1:26am

  Are there any groups in Sydney playing with quadcopters for a hobby?

  When and where?
• Karl von Muller February 28, 2013 at 9:17pm

  Article from the ABC today - http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-03-01/drones-set-for-large-scale-co...
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  leonardthall February 17, 2013 at 7:33pm

  Hi Jay, I think the media will give a good crack but I don't think they will succeed.

  I am from Adelaide out near TTP of north east road.
• Tim Wilkin February 17, 2013 at 6:19pm

  This is also where AUVSI's media unit could help... you could try alerting Melanie Hinton, Senior Communications Manager, to these articles and see if you can't get her (or her team) to talk to The Age and offer them some credible information on the industry and the usage of drones.
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  Jean February 17, 2013 at 5:56pm

  David, that letter looks great.  It would certainly be fantastic if we could get the media on our side, to forestall any fear-mongering and the resultant hysteria/paranoia like what is happening in the U.S.
• Tim Wilkin February 17, 2013 at 4:00pm

  Might I suggest a "letter to the editor"... ;)
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  leonardthall February 17, 2013 at 3:59pm

  Yeh, it is such an obvious copy and past of the US fear based news paper sales and congressman self promotion attempts.

  Australia already has laws that cover the privacy issues and they will be used to full extent on any drone user that breaks them (and gets caught). We already have reasonable rules for drones that are based on model aircraft rules. I find it very disappointing when articles spend 95% of their time attempting to drum up fear where there is none and only 5% intelligently talking about the facts.

  Like everybody here I don't want to see the media get a drone phobia going here and I don't think they will. But the amateur reporting of issues at every level of the media really gives me the ......

  And in case Jean or Karl thought I was having a go at them, I wasn't (and sorry if you thought I was). I am happy for people to point out examples of media scaremongering and I found the Google statistic both interesting and encouraging.