Oh, I agree 100%. I hate these things being up where I’m flying too!
Point was that toy owners are not forced to read FAR’s or TFR’s and being out there in the relative wilderness and below 400’ are usually not any concern to pilots.
Let’s wait and see what news outlet or MUD district or local PD was out there with their drone before blaming the general public.
Dunno where you fly AJ, but around here it’s pretty rural and there are a LOT of farm strips, grass fields, and sleepy little county airports. Cubs, Champs, T-carts, and I rarely bother to climb up to 1000’ unless we’re going some distance. Fortunately, that also means that there aren’t that many kidiots (some full-grown) with such toys. It takes about a month for them to crash their Christmas presents, so I’m extra vigilant until February.
My problems have been when I needed to go to the big city. A start-up was testing drone food delivery for about a year. Thankfully, it was not successful.
Drone Strikes Texas-Flood Rescue Helicopter Causing Forced Landing
Was that a forced landing or, precautionary landing?
Such as?
Reality is construction workers were attacked. Motivation was clearly ecological. That justifies my use of ‘scum’.)
Supposed ‘hereditary chiefs’ were involved, whereas elected chiefs supported the project.
If you know more of what went on say so, otherwise I know how to categorize you from past behaviour.
Caution for those accepting the initial report at face value. Chatter has been casting doubt on the suggestion of a private drone and the helicopter being out of service. Follow-up on this story is necessary. Details are emerging that Texas DPS lost a drone during an automated mapping mission (common search and rescue utilization of a drone) due to collision with a National Guard helicopter. This type of detail dramatically changes the picture of the incident as DPS operation within the TFR would have been allowed and that such a collision would show potential communication gaps in airspace management between the various disaster recovery responders. Stay tuned.
I respectfully and vehemently disagree, UAS_Legal.
A drone carrying no living thing collided with a piloted aircraft carrying humans. This should never be allowed to happen, and renders irrelevant who owned the drone, what its mission was, or whether it was legally in that airspace. It was as invisible a threat to human life as a bullet. The points you offer in no way “dramatically changes the picture of the incident”.
To human-piloted aircraft, drones are essentially invisible, turning them into “air mines” that cannot be avoided.
Unless and until drones acquire the sensory ability to avoid all other aircraft (as all human-piloted aircraft do naturally) they should not be allowed in any airspace with piloted vehicles. Period.
I do, as do quite a few other people, Keith. But a) this is not the forum to discuss it, and b) your use of pejoratives makes it clear that you do not possess a mind even remotely open to discussion.
‘Aviatrexx’:
ROFL, you are ducking.
As I’ve said, your behaviour record is important.
Thankyou for that.
Similar to RCMP drone colliding with own helicopter in NW BC.
Local police need to be watching.
There are ways to disable, identify source, and crash UAVs (but in fire prone areas crash could start a fire).
But, as you noted, the problem is that it’s impossible to hold drone operators accountable if you can’t find them. My understanding is that authorities are searching for the one responsible for the downed Kerrville helo, but that may never happen.
Also, as another poster mentioned, a lot of the recreational drone activity is not for personal edification, it’s for social media “clicks” for notoriety, attention, and validation, with “influencer” status as their ultimate motivation. For most of them, no laws, rules, or TFRs will stand in their way. Some of them have killed themselves attempting stupid stunts just for “clicks”. It’s a sad commentary on the status quo of our younger people today.
And I suggest taking such “chatter” with a HUGE grain of salt. Self-styled experts on social media inevitably pop out of the woodwork with their “theories” about what happened, and they’re usually way off the mark.
WRT the “details emerging” that it was a lost DPS drone that hit the helicopter, there are no such reports from any legitimate sources on the web, which is instead literally FULL of accounts that it was a privately-owned drone involved. If it had been a DPS drone, DPS would be acknowledging it. They haven’t.
Police on the street are needed.
A few publicized cases of nabbing for reckless endangerment should slow the risk.
IIRC the juurk who hit a CL water bomber near LA got a heavy fine and paid damages, if not jail time, and the event was publicized
Drones need transponders and TCAS; when in an emergency area. Tell the FAA: no one flies drones in an emergency area without a Transponder and TCAS. And all others, stay out; usually by NOTAM. Separation in uncontrolled airspace will always be a challenge!!! We love our uncontrolled airspace, so no discussions on getting rid of it. Will bring down every aviation organization on Earth on who ever even makes such a suggestion!
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