and by doing this you now putting our hobby squarely in the spot light in South Africa , you Mr. FC Hamman is a ass , what did you think would happen ??
PRETORIA (Reuters) - South African police on Friday detained the owner of a radio-controlled helicopter drone carrying a camera that was filming scenes around the Pretoria hospital where ailing anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela is being treated.
F.C. Hamman, a South African freelance film-maker, was escorted away by police along with the helicopter camera he was flying with his 21-year-old son Timothy outside the clinic where Mandela, 94, has spent three weeks with a lung infection.
After nearly four hours of questioning by police, Hamman was released but the drone camera was confiscated. ( Rest of the story here)
Didn’t see anyone commenting on this so thought I'll do a quick post ...
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I also have to agree.. Not a method of good exposure for FPV/drones or RC flight. I have flown quads and while everything is perfect it's great but you only get away with it if nothing goes wrong. I feel it is very dangerous to fly above people and that it should not be done! Had the same experience at this years Topgear festival in Durbs where a couple of guys were flying with a crowd around them and best of all the maybe went up 8m max? Guess they have never heard of pole photography...
Anyway, people doing stupid things like this are going to spoil the whole game for the rest of us...
This has been and gone on the front page. There is an FPV incident as well which has caught the SACAA's eye or so I have been told.
Yeah, agreed - what a poepol.