So it happened again, and it will continue to happen until people realize this technology is far from mature enough to be used for such tasks.
Aside from endangering peoples lives, the public opinion created from such incidents will be very damaging and contribute to overly restrictive UAV laws in the future.
Do not fly over people, especially crowds!
Original article with crash video:
http://www.ara.cat/viacatalana/Via-Catalana-Sagrada-Familia-assistents_3_994130598.html
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Really, you have to be fool to fly over a crowd with no need. I want he was put to jail and impound guilty to not play with suas in your life. The result of this stupidity can be the bane of many professionals who legitimately aspire to work in an area of research and business that has a tremendously positive benefits for society (search and rescue, infrastructure monitoring, remote inspection, transportation of organs and drugs , etc..) in this way is how you get to our politicians and find that for "our protection" is necessary to reserve the private garden of unmanned vehicles to the mighty military and aviation industry lobbyists. Morons also the responsible for civil protection at the event and who by action or inaction allowed that an irresponsible lunatic was there flying. It's like let me go to a stadium with a chainsaw because there is no law specifically prohibiting chainsaws. (Would not surprise me that this pilot is an infiltrate of military drones industry)
@Crashpilot1000:
The point is that many drone users, especially multicopter users, are no RC pilots. They see the drone as a flexible camera platform and nothing else. You can basically divide the drone users in 2 major groups: RC pilots which see the autopilot as an enhancement for their flying - so to speak, an extended OSD - and the users which are focused on the autonomous and/or application side. The latter group usually doesn't have the experience and indoctrination from the RC hobby and is usually simply not aware of the risks because they haven't heard stories of, seen or experienced crashes.
Speaking of myself, I also don't consider myself an RC pilot. I'm in no RC club and I'm not interested in flying up and down an RC field. Actually, I'm not interested in the flying part at all. My focus is on the autonomous technology and the applications in Search and Rescue. But I am aware of the risks and thus keep away from crowds.
I don't know if a new APM nowadays comes with a "safety sheet" - if not, it might be a good idea. It probably won't do much as people tend to ignore those, but if even one person reads it and obeys it, it's a progress.
Rc model aircrafts belong to the model aircraft flying field and no where else. Nobody will fly his 700 Align fuel heli over a crowd. I wonder what comes next? Throwing >5Kg stones on people from >50m hight? Is this the beginning of some perverted splattersport?
not defending the person who did this, but....
for every video of a drone crashing into a person, i'll show you 50 of a real aircraft crashing into people.
I still don't know why no one has figured out how to have a reserve battery switchover.
This one's behavior is interesting. Many of these crashes involve some sort of tipping over and/or darting in some direction. This descended with a rather stable attitude.
I don't understand how people can get to the point of these situations. My heart pounds just from flying around my friends and family. This would give me a heart attack.
One of the main rules of the AMA don't fly over anybody's head, ever.
Unfortunately once you put cameras on multicopters, many new and even not so new users seem to forget or ignore this really important rule.
I think they have just decided this is a safe tool and it is important for my work, so those "rules" don't apply to me.
Of course, everything about these is experimental, they are very temperamental and about as safe as if you started your lawnmower, revved it up to full speed and launched it with a catapult into a crowd.
Used properly means used safely and used safely means never using in a situation where there is any possibility that you can't prevent it from hitting anybody.
And if the battery fails or any part breaks it is probably going to immediately fall out of the sky at high speed and maybe even not straight down.
And they break frequently because they are not fully developed tools yet.
Bottom line is, we in this hobby know that this is a gross abuse by the people who caused and allowed this to happen.
How do we let them know that?
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