The elephant in the room, some countries have standards to train towards. Others do not.
I think we should take the bull by the horns and throw some ideas around.
Initially I think this group should be populated by licenced manned aviation pilots and experienced UA operators.
The sharing of safety information and best practice has to be the way forward.
There is a great deal of knowledge here.
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A Simple idea for a big problemRc model safety, Is everyone doing what they can do to protect out hobby and the public.(summary: I would like a splash screen to be implemented on all software that gives safety tips each start up)Full storyPlease don't take the following as me bossing around, this is a suggestion I feel very strongly about and so should everyone as it will effect everyone.So recently (very recently) Multirotor and other RC model safety has been brought into the spotlight.there…
Read more…This is I think where I would like us to be heading. Individual certificates that clock up to being able to show useful knowledge.https://www.aopa.org/asf/osc/loginform.cfm?course=unmannedaircraft&project_code=&A wry smile raised for the airframes chosen for the banner pic...
Read more…I know someone two people that today will be taking their BNUCs flight exams today 1 of these people has never had any interest in anything technical and never picked up a transmitter, and has had maybe a week of practice using a DJI Phantom and an S800, which he hasn`t had to practice with for long as it has spent alot of time back at the dealers for repairs and problems, he told me yesterday that he crashed because he flew through some woods whilst wanting to film bluebells and crashed…
Read more…I was having a conversation with a good ol aussie fella about regulations and together we came up with this analogy quite by accident. Having a pilots license to fly a civil aircraft has little to do with flying model aircraft! I know plenty of pilots that would crash a model aircraft in 5 seconds! But being in the same airspace with civil aircraft and civil pilots is the problem. Being a pilot I know the regulations for civil flight. It's like this "The world of the air has it's roads and…
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Should we be starting some written standards? First one being... Thou shall not fly over a crowd or group of people?
Looks like our this is a propeller candidate has come forward http://www.diydrones.com/forum/topics/first-time-with-a-hexacopter-... little bit worrying that he thinks flying an AR.Drone is enough flying experience.
Its a great start for sure but eish learning RC stuff quickly would be tricky.
I hear you Morli
I was thinking we could bring it right back to simple. I have just taken a Google course and that worked along the lines of, watch video read a little bit and answer some questions. So....
This is a speed controller it works like this video, how they can be programmed with TX and wired like this
A few questions
Then onto the next thing,
This is a propeller...
Really day one stuff but the correct information for the correct bit. It would be a huge job much like painting the Forth Bridge. Taking chunks at it, like eating an elephant one fork at a time would work in the end.
It is time to start.
Humm not much interest then, I wonder what could be done to prompt a passion in safety and training around here? Does the group think a bit of paper might be important to folks?
Sorry you did that Dean, lets hope it gets traction its an important subject. Ning is a pretty horrid place for nested conversations though. I think we should really try to straighten folks up and head them the right way for free before having to go off to a nationally approved training agent for a bit of paper. I don't think DIYD would ever be able to get licenced to do that everywhere.
Just deleted my group [CAA registered operators] as there was nothing happening there, this should be a little more interesting as it is global?
Thanks Joshua will be interesting to see what comes of it. What topic should this be kicked off with I wonder?
Gary, thanks for setting this up! Very important topic here.