Drone operator charged

[CYHeli]

And a good thing too!
drone hinders emergency helicopter (http://wkbn.com/2014/04/15/drone-hinders-emergency-helicopter-landing/)

Apologises if this breaches the copyright at the bottom of the linked page.

[Art of flight]

The top of the page article refers to the drone as 'search and Rescue'! Must be quite a size:eek:

[chopjock]

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.

[Digital flight deck]

Chop did you personally witness this? Or are you guessing about the consideration model flyers give emergency service helicopters doing their thing ?

[chopjock]

Chop did you personally witness this?
No.

Or are you guessing about the consideration model flyers give emergency service helicopters doing their thing ?

Yes.

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...

[topendtorque]

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?"

It is true - I think - that most of us helicopter pilots have a much more fertile imagination than our fixed wing brethren, for whom life is mostly a beach with fast cars and faster sheilas. However regardless of my own limited imagination which precludes me even from wanting to find out what is inside dark or cloudy spaces, 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???

Happy Easter
Tet.

[Art of flight]

"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?:ouch:

[topendtorque]

If there's a pilot aboard the 'drone', is it a drone?

Yep, no arguments here on that one.

[chopjock]

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???

I should imagine the drone pilot was just standing there looking up at his drone and some important person in a day glow jacket had a word in his ear.

[Bravo73]

I should imagine the drone pilot was just standing there looking up at his drone and some important person in a day glow jacket had a word in his ear.

What, like a policeman? :hmm:

"The Clark County Sheriff’s Office said Stanley several times refused to stop flying his drone while the helicopter was preparing to land."

[Digital flight deck]

Chopchod you really are an endless source of amusement. Happy Easter.