Originally Posted by
rgburrill
init4fun, that something really bad may have happened. It seems the forest fire air tankers in Washington (I think) were kept down because of idiots iwth drones. It was too dangerous to fly with uncontrolled activity in the area. How many homes were destroyed because some people just wanted to have fun?
Hi RG ,
Yes sir , it's no joke or fun and games when some idiot blocks access to emergency operations . It's exactly things of that nature that I fear will escalate and result in bans on private citizen's use of flying cameras . A shame that such a wonderful new technology will end up regulated because of a few morons with no common sense , but that seems to be the way all new technology ends up , a "free for all" at first and then much regulation when the idiots in society go about proving just how dangerous anything can be in the hands of a moron .
As much as I like the idea of FPV , It or no other single flight disipline are worth loosing the entire hobby over , and when "push comes to shove" with the ugly and the banning , I hope the rest of the hobby makes it through the turmoil unscathed .