PMIKEY Posted September 24, 2013 Share Posted September 24, 2013 After some recent bad press here is some good press **LINK** And i am starting a thread on Flitetest as i think its really entertaining as well as informative so we may all discuss. here is a link to their you tube channel. **LINK** Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ken anderson. Posted February 8, 2014 Share Posted February 8, 2014 lots of drones in use in the winter Olympics - watching the broadcasts you can see their shadows .... ken Anderson......ne...1 ...... drone's dept. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scott cuppello Posted February 8, 2014 Share Posted February 8, 2014 Multi-Rotors are being used by the media all the time now but just one thing chaps......on behalf of just about everybody in the industry......can you please stop using the term "drone"? UAV = unmanned aerial vehicle (UAS = the system, in other words aircraft + ground station)........RPAV/RPAS are also becoming more widely used, anything but NOT drone!!! The term Drone dates back the the 1930's and was affiliated with a target drone called th Queen Bee......needless to say that technology has moved on a tad since then. The facts are that UAV's are piloted or under pilot control, even when flying Waypoint Missions......which I hasten to add is no different than an aircraft flying on autopilot in reality.......Terminator and Skynet are fantasy, it was a movie but we are having problems getting this accross to the media, who are to blame for the widespread use of the term "drone".......how ironic given my first paragraph? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Read 2 Posted February 10, 2014 Share Posted February 10, 2014 Yes, I first noticed the olympic multi rotors being used when watching the womens snow boarding with Jenny Jones winning bronze. Hurrah! Shame about the kinder garden commentators though. Wonder how much of the MR footage is broadcast? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John F Posted February 10, 2014 Share Posted February 10, 2014 Sorry Scott but I don't think your objections to the term is made with strictly correct conventions. The term UAV applies to both remote controlled aircraft as well as manual controlled. The dictionary also calls these aircraft "drones", irrespective of whether they are pilot or pilot-less. The term drone was first said to apply to the Queen Bee but was applied historically to it as a direct reference to the name "Queen Bee" after the US Navy adopted the term to describe how a machine did what it was told and worked till told to stop. (we study this subject as part of Air Power lectures and dissertations in the RAF) A drone is a drone and it always will be. It describes an aircraft that is not manned and, technically, applies to both UAV's and missiles. I also saw the Womens Freestyle snow boarding and spotted the drone cameras. Very impressed with both the piloting skills as well as the pictures obtained. Sometimes the shots that these things can get are amazing. Edited By John F on 10/02/2014 15:02:11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ken anderson. Posted February 10, 2014 Share Posted February 10, 2014 thanks for clearing it up john........going off the article in the new RCME mag......they are really expensive bits of 'equipment' ........... ken Anderson ne...1 .......drones dept. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill_B Posted February 11, 2014 Share Posted February 11, 2014 Posted by Tony Read 2 on 10/02/2014 13:56:04: Yes, I first noticed the olympic multi rotors being used when watching the womens snow boarding....... I thought they were remotely controlled cams suspended on wires above the course. Using a quad copter/drone/uav/multi rotor (delete as applicable )above the competing athletes would be a somewhat risky process to say the very least. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John F Posted February 11, 2014 Share Posted February 11, 2014 The snowboarding event is on a course 15 metres wide with the drone flying on the other side of the crash fencing. They probably also have no flying based rules on windspeed as well as visibility so I doubt there is much risk posed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bandit Posted February 11, 2014 Share Posted February 11, 2014 15000 for a copter in the rcme this month That's like 100 times my model budget!! I thought drones were craft that did autonomous flight Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill_B Posted February 11, 2014 Share Posted February 11, 2014 Posted by Bandit on 11/02/2014 15:13:22: I thought drones were craft that did autonomous flight It still requires a human to programme it's course. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bandit Posted February 11, 2014 Share Posted February 11, 2014 No they not human honest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PatMc Posted February 11, 2014 Share Posted February 11, 2014 Posted by Bandit on 11/02/2014 15:13:22: I thought drones were craft that did autonomous flight The Queen Bee, which according to Scott's post was the originator of the term, wasn't autonomous, it was R/C. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bandit Posted February 11, 2014 Share Posted February 11, 2014 Ok no need to drone on. I don't like the name drone, scares the women and children and sends the public into a panic. I'd prefer to be called, as a hobby-ist, the term FPV flyer as that is what we do I think we have discussed this before.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry Walters Posted February 15, 2014 Share Posted February 15, 2014 Well this is what has just happened in France. The article doesn't say what size of 'Drone' was involved but I think it must have been of a decent size to carry commercial quality equipment. Note the reference to needing a ULM (Microlight) licence but even then there are the restrictions like those of the CAA in the UK. Also in France there have stricter privacy laws which also extend to public places - French Presidents riding scooters to see a 'friend' excepted of course! Terry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josip Vrandecic -Mes Posted March 8, 2014 Share Posted March 8, 2014 And NEGATIVE press news for multi-quads lovers ...one step to ban a multi-quads for fun Flying E-shocker : **LINK** Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bandit Posted March 8, 2014 Share Posted March 8, 2014 You could use a heli for that flying e-shocker and you could fly a normal model aircraft in a dumb way around French monuments. More positive press here **LINK** For those who don't know that was Trappy fro Team Black sheep. See what happens when you make people into black sheep haha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Skilbeck Posted March 8, 2014 Share Posted March 8, 2014 I wouldn't say the last was positive press, basically it showed that the FAA hadn't done their homework with regards to UAVs, the unfortunate side effect of this is that they will probably push for even more draconian legislation, and knowing the US unless you have a very powerful organisation behind you it will come into force. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josip Vrandecic -Mes Posted March 9, 2014 Share Posted March 9, 2014 Hi Frank , absolutely true....thanks for your wiev. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Skilbeck Posted March 9, 2014 Share Posted March 9, 2014 I was in a coffee shop earlier today and in the Sunday Times "driving and technology" section and a review of 4 multirotors which come complete with cameras, (DJI Phantom, Buzzflyer etc). The small box that went with it said they aren't hard to fly and if you get stuck just hit the hold or return to home function. They only point they made was that if you crash into anyone/anything then you are liable and recommended joining BMFA to get insurance!. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bandit Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 Write to the Sunday Times and tell them they have it all wrong. The positive I was highlighting was that the obsessive hounding of Trappy might be over now and about time. If they get their act together and work some ruling out that's fine. If they push for more legislation I hope they can convince people to follow it like speed limits on the motorway The states is a bigger monster to control than here in my opinion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avtur Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 not good news ... BBC reporting a story from Australia where a 'drone with 4 engines' (quad copter?) was used to deliver drugs into the grounds of a prison. The pilot was found in a car nearby. As time goes by only imagination will limit the uses, both good and bad, to which these devices are put to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bandit Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 Not good news Condoms have been reportd to be used by a Mexican to smuggle drugs into America... As time goes by only imagination will limit the uses, both good and bad, to which these devices are put to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Essjay Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 Posted by avtur on 10/03/2014 13:12:35: not good news ... BBC reporting a story from Australia where a 'drone with 4 engines' (quad copter?) was used to deliver drugs into the grounds of a prison. The pilot was found in a car nearby. As time goes by only imagination will limit the uses, both good and bad, to which these devices are put to. Point taken, however on the other hand they could have just as well used a fixed wing model to do the same thing. Perhaps it's just that quads, drones or whatever term people like to use at present just happen to be "flavour of the month". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bandit Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 Not good news Model aeroplane (not drone with camera) used in bomb plot **LINK** Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buster prop Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 I saw that article in the Sunday Times as well. Will the BMFA suddenly get applications from people with no interest at all in model flying but have just bought themselves a Drone/UAV ? (BTW I don't want to get involved in the semantics of what camera equipped quadcopters are called). Casual mention of the BMFA for purely insurance purposes did concern me a bit. I imagine the Drone/AUV buyer getting BMFA News and handbooks through the post and throwing them straight into the bin. You never know though, it may spark an interest in some other aspect of model flying and I suppose you could argue that the new joiners would swell BMFA coffers. I wonder if as the price of these quads comes down they will be next Xmas must-have pressie and get a bad name when people use them to spy on their neighbours? Maybe the BMFA would get claims when the quads hit people, cars or damage property, its a minefield and could invite regulation. Must try to be more positive though. Lastly what does 'Trappy' mean? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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