Originally Posted by
DroneDog
The operator not only saw the helicopter, he was panning left and right framing his shot to catch it, drones can drop in altitude very quickly and recover just as quickly.
He cold have performed an emergency descent, throttling back the engines, the thing will fall like a stone before throttling up at a safe altitude.
Maybe these things need an "Abort" red button on the controller that does this. A quick drop to 20 feet.
Better yet, make that Abort function mandatory by law for all drones, built into the drone's own radio receiver. Program it to kick in automatically if it receives a certain encrypted radio signal. All manned aircraft then required to have a cheap radio transmitter generating this signal at a certain radius around the aircraft, say 1/2 mile. Aircraft gets anywhere close, drone drops close to the ground. Problem solved.