Originally Posted by
init4fun
And now we even have trained performers getting in on the act . You will read in tomorrow's news about the singer Enrique Iglesias grabbing one out of the air at a concert so he could give the audience a "drone's eye view" from the stage but ended up with a handful of cut fingers instead . It is my understanding from the story that this drone is routinely flown at the concerts to record overhead footage of the concert .
Hmm , let's see , we got ,
Flying over people's heads
Grabbing or touching a model in flight unless to divert it from hitting someone
and the general idea once again that it's all fun and harmless to do both above mentioned activities till someone ends up with a pawful of cut piggies ...
Can people really be that stupid ? Really ? Hey , let's grab a flippin flyin blender out of the sky , and if it works maybe we work up to juggling running chainsaws next !!!
Originally Posted by
lopflyers
I just heard in the Orlando News, at a concert of a well known artist the producers were using a drone for pictures, and...... Yes it got one person, I think the singer got hit in the hand.
Hi Lopflyers , I posted about this on 5/31/15 , the day it was first reported in the news . The incident happened in Mexico and thus is the responsibility of the Mexican authorities , who likely have bigger fish to fry than fining some dolt for trying to grab a rather large quadcopter mid flight ? I heard of no charges of any type levied against the singer and doubt there will be . Now if such happened here in the US , I'll bet he'd at least end up speaking with the FAA , and since he himself was the only injured I'll bet the disipline would extend only to being reminded of the new commercial UAS statutes , as this most certainly was not "hobby use" of the technology ....