Yet another idiot with a phantom

[Joshuamcd22]

http://www.photographybay.com/2015/0...-drone-safety/

Yet another inexperienced pilot flying his phantom, this one's great, He was doing a segment on fox news talking about drone safety and regulation, and crashed it! He obviously didn't know what he was doing, as he lost orientation as soon as he turned it around, probably not used to flying manual.

He also said that a "kid in brookland was killed by one a year or two ago" well, I looked up the story he was referring to and it was actually an incident involving an rc helicopter with what looks like a 4 or 5 ft carbon fibre blade. Not even close to what most multirotors are.

http://blogs.wsj.com/metropolis/2013...n-in-brooklyn/

We need more positive news stories around multirotors. I would encourage anyone who fly's one to contact your local news to see if they will do a story on them. I am actually going to be giving a demonstration of my Mini Quad and Gimbaled Tricopter at a local military base next month. The demo will be for a group of veterans, and current members of the armed forces, as well as the local chief of police. We need more demonstrations like that to show that they aren't some scary killing machine, but are a really powerful tool, and a fun hobby.

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fantastic. crash it while talking about regulation and safety!

this should be in the heli section

[Joshuamcd22]

Thanks for getting it moved! This thread fits much better in this section.

[Joshuamcd22]

Here's today's Idiot with a phantom:



From reading the comments on the video, the guy who picked it up wasn't the owner, he was talking to his girlfriend, excited about his new drone and go pro! Serves the pilot right he lost his gear!

[Vettster]

And people still wonder why the Gov wants to ban drones.

[Joshuamcd22]

1 less phantom in the world:



"Dude Dont" A lot of phantom pilots need to hear that....

[Max]

1 less phantom in the world:


"Dude Dont" A lot of phantom pilots need to hear that....

HA HA HA.. That was great. Race-truck driver probably wondered what kind of bug splatted on his windsheild...LOL

[ANIMAL]

Well ya gotta admit they have a tough cam on em LOL

[bensid54]

I live in the Vancouver area and the other day a float plane was coming in for a landing, it was about 15 feet off the water when it narrowly missed a drone in the area. The pilot tried to track where it was flying to but it carried on to the north then out of sight. I have a Quad with the Fat Shark goggles and am terrified to fly it anywhere but large fields well away from the airport or areas where there are no people nearby. Trouble with those things is they are so easy to fly basically any moron can do it.