Drone operator charged
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Drone operator charged
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drone hinders emergency helicopter
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drone hinders emergency helicopter
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This is just tabloid sensationalism again, nothing else. Any drone operator would obviously give way to a full-size aircraft. Seems like he was asked to land just because a helicopter was en route. I'm sure the helicopter would have been heard and the drone landed well before arrival.
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Chop did you personally witness this?
Or are you guessing about the consideration model flyers give emergency service helicopters doing their thing ?
I could well imagine... Drone pilot flying over a site and being told to land because a helicopter is en route.
Drone pilot asks "how long until it gets here?"
He's told twenty minutes
Drone pilot says "I will land in fifteen minutes then."
Get's reported for refusing to land.
Helicopter lands twenty minutes later without incident. (Drone has already landed 5 minutes before because the pilot heard the helicopter coming).
Sounds like a police state to me.
Just guessing though...
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I could well imagine... Drone pilot flying over a site and being told to land because a helicopter is en route.
Drone pilot asks "how long until it gets here?"
Drone pilot asks "how long until it gets here?"
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"I could well imagine... Drone pilot flying over a site and being told to land because a helicopter is en route.
Drone pilot asks "how long until it gets here?"
If there's a pilot aboard the 'drone', is it a drone?
Drone pilot asks "how long until it gets here?"
If there's a pilot aboard the 'drone', is it a drone?
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i am buggered if I can imagine by which medium the conversation, as highlighted above, takes place. Perhaps it is a system of semaphore smoke signals???
"The Clark County Sheriff’s Office said Stanley several times refused to stop flying his drone while the helicopter was preparing to land."