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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Mar 23, 2015 12:05:56 GMT 12
Some recent footage (taken from a UAV) of Franz Josef Glacier....
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Post by craig on Mar 23, 2015 14:56:21 GMT 12
Pick the helicopter at 1.58!!!!!!
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Post by efliernz on Mar 23, 2015 18:39:18 GMT 12
CAA Regs state model aircraft (incorporating DJI Phantoms of course) cannot be flown outside un-aided line-of-sight distance. Yet we see another Phantom being flown obviously a huge distance... I just wish CAA would publicly screw someone, making the rest of us law-abiding model fliers feel that we follow the rules for a reason. Sore point? ? Possibly Pete
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Post by lindstrim on Mar 23, 2015 18:50:56 GMT 12
Don't watch this one then
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Post by Darren Masters on Mar 24, 2015 18:24:28 GMT 12
Nanny state and media sensationalisation at it's finest...
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Post by Darren Masters on Mar 24, 2015 18:30:00 GMT 12
Don't watch this one then Grilling on a forum then? Really? So if it is not over 400 AGL then what the hell is the problem? Some of us try to make ends meet flying these and yes a few dick heads make that impossible. Really though with the re-posting of videos...Is it jealousy??? WHAT??? Follow the rules, don't fly over 400 AGL (though I would like to see someone stop me at my parents cattle property in Aussie where the lowest CTA step is 15 something thousand feet. Flying them over 400' AGL where the rules stipulate then fair call. Others bringing up bridges/risk to cars being distracted etc are you for real? How the hell is a driver of a car going to see this flying under a bridge and enable the machine to distract him? Crap!! Concentrate on the morons with these machines and leave the legit guys alone...
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Post by Dave Homewood on Mar 24, 2015 18:57:28 GMT 12
The cricket broadcast team are using a drone tonight that is taking some nice aerial footage. Cheaper and quieter than a helicopter I guess.
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Post by lumpy on Mar 24, 2015 19:35:33 GMT 12
Others bringing up bridges/risk to cars being distracted etc are you for real? How the hell is a driver of a car going to see this flying under a bridge and enable the machine to distract him? Crap!! Concentrate on the morons with these machines and leave the legit guys alone... That would be my comments about the video that involved it passing under the bridge . It was actually the footage in the same video showing the " drone " flying alongside a public road ( with traffic ) at low level and passing just over a truck parked beside the road that I was talking about . I can easily see how that could distract drivers , so to answer your question - yes , I am "for real ".
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Post by Darren Masters on Mar 24, 2015 19:50:56 GMT 12
Others bringing up bridges/risk to cars being distracted etc are you for real? How the hell is a driver of a car going to see this flying under a bridge and enable the machine to distract him? Crap!! Concentrate on the morons with these machines and leave the legit guys alone... That would be my comments about the video that involved it passing under the bridge . It was actually the footage in the same video showing the " drone " flying alongside a public road ( with traffic ) at low level and passing just over a truck parked beside the road that I was talking about . I can easily see how that could distract drivers , so to answer your question - yes , I am "for real ". Rubbish. You can't say for real you would be driving and see one of these beside you to the point it distracts you. In tha case you may need to re-sit your drivers licence (as do about 90 % of drivers in Auckland). They are just shit drivers period. Focus on some more pro-active issues...
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Post by Darren Masters on Mar 24, 2015 19:51:47 GMT 12
And, it is NOT a drone. Stop stooping yourself as low as NZ Herald.
If you are that much of a shitty driver that you are looking for 'drones' as you drive along a stretch of road you have bigger issues with your drivers licence than originally thought...
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Post by Darren Masters on Mar 24, 2015 19:54:57 GMT 12
Others bringing up bridges/risk to cars being distracted etc are you for real? How the hell is a driver of a car going to see this flying under a bridge and enable the machine to distract him? Crap!! Concentrate on the morons with these machines and leave the legit guys alone... That would be my comments about the video that involved it passing under the bridge . It was actually the footage in the same video showing the " drone " flying alongside a public road ( with traffic ) at low level and passing just over a truck parked beside the road that I was talking about . I can easily see how that could distract drivers , so to answer your question - yes , I am "for real ". Agree to disagree bro.
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Post by lumpy on Mar 24, 2015 20:05:14 GMT 12
And, it is NOT a drone. Stop stooping yourself as low as NZ Herald. If you are that much of a shitty driver that you are looking for 'drones' as you drive along a stretch of road you have bigger issues with your drivers licence than originally thought... Fair comment about the " drone " term , I only use it because its a term most people understand ( even if incorrectly ) . (Oh , am happy to compare the state of my drivers licence with yours anytime - but not here )
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Mar 24, 2015 20:08:44 GMT 12
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Post by Darren Masters on Mar 24, 2015 20:16:10 GMT 12
Yep, about the same I paid...
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Post by Darren Masters on Mar 24, 2015 20:18:11 GMT 12
And, it is NOT a drone. Stop stooping yourself as low as NZ Herald. If you are that much of a shitty driver that you are looking for 'drones' as you drive along a stretch of road you have bigger issues with your drivers licence than originally thought... Fair comment about the " drone " term , I only use it because its a term most people understand ( even if incorrectly ) . (Oh , am happy to compare the state of my drivers licence with yours anytime - but not here ) Oh come on Look up Masters and racing Unfortunately I have not carried any on. If you would like to come learn how to fly a 'drone' too, I am willing...Beats sitting there on my own filming real estate...
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Post by Bruce on Mar 24, 2015 20:30:46 GMT 12
Don't watch this one then I do have concerns about one or two of the shots in this clip - There is one flying along the Strand - Tauranga's waterfront - at what looks like 400ft or so. Problem is Tauranga Airport is less than 2 km away across the harbour, and aircraft in the circuit for 07 fly RH base essentially along that waterfront. As they would be on approach, they would be getting down to 400 - 500ft thereabouts, and having had a near miss with a UAV in airfield circuit airspace, that is a little too close for me to be comfortable with it. The low level stuff around building height isnt a problem, but this footage would be breaching the rules due to proximity to an airport - a piece of airspace that pilots have every right to expect safe, exclusive use of.
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Post by lumpy on Mar 24, 2015 20:45:43 GMT 12
If you would like to come learn how to fly a 'drone' too, I am willing... Thanks for the offer , but I have been flying my "drone " in between writing these replies . Okay , so its only a CX10 ( very small for those that dont know ) , but at least I can fly it indoors ( and its good pratice for my other fixed wing RC aircraft )
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Post by Darren Masters on Mar 25, 2015 6:49:09 GMT 12
If you would like to come learn how to fly a 'drone' too, I am willing... Thanks for the offer , but I have been flying my "drone " in between writing these replies . Okay , so its only a CX10 ( very small for those that dont know ) , but at least I can fly it indoors ( and its good pratice for my other fixed wing RC aircraft ) Ha ha. Gold. Probably a lot harder to fly than the one I have... Bruce, everyone for that matter, not long before CAA starts following up these breaches anyway as they are stupid enough (or really did not know) when they went and posted them up on the internet for all to see Wonder how many of them are actually registered on AirShare?
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Post by baronbeeza on May 7, 2015 12:15:55 GMT 12
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on May 15, 2015 13:39:16 GMT 12
Meet the new selfie: Personal drone videoBy Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist | 3:30AM PDT - Thursday, May 14, 2015So cute. So weird. So unsure of what this all might mean, if anything, which is probably nothing.SO what happens when I throw my personal me-filming video drone up in the air and start walking, and you throw your personal video drone into the air and start skipping down the street, and we perchance fast approach one another and our eyes lock and bodies tingle and we stop and chat and hey, our drones are floating just up there, filming our every interaction, burning through their batteries as we mingle and dance?
What happens then? Will our drones swap phone numbers for us? Check our Facebook profiles for a match? Blink maniacally and catch on fire and let out a piercing scream if there is/isn’t one? I mean, shouldn’t they?
What happens when I toss my personal, follow-along Lily drone into the air and then, say, go for a little drive? What happens when the kids thinks it’s funny to attach the drone’s tracker beacon to the dog? What happens if you’re cross-country droning out in gun country and some drunk hunter blasts your Lily personal drone with a shotgun, thinking it was a pheasant? Do you have grounds to publicly shame him on Hunters-N-Bros.com? Blast him with a laser?Amazon's delivery drone! For those times you want to order $11.79 worth of Chinese sweatshop made landfill merchandise delivered via roughly 25 years and $1 trillion worth of engineering know-how and ingenious scientific tech advancements.Who, me? Creepy? What makes you say that?How many personal drones will it take to film every angle of Kim Kardashian walking to her car? Won’t it be cool when you can film yourself running down the beach in slow motion and then watch in horror as your $500 drone gets pounced upon by furious seagulls? What happens when your drone won’t stop chasing you, ever, following you into the dark corners of your dreams? Didn’t Philip K. Dick predict all of this, somehow, in far more ominous ways, decades back?
These and oh, so many more are the immediate ponderables as we witness the awkward birth of a new level of narcissism (meta-narcissism? Ur-narcissism?) via this adorable new personal surveillance toy called the Lily, because cute names make creepy things sound harmless and fun when in fact they’re actually not a little bit disconcerting in ways we can’t even fathom just yet, because technology.Maybe “The Birds” would have been a better analogy, with all the seagulls swapped with Lily drones.Selfies are so very 2014, brah!Seen the Lily yet? It is, indeed, just what it is: a personal, controller-less, video-taking, toss-it-up-and-it-follows-you-everywhere drone, invented by some very young, very local (Berkeley) dudes and invested in by some VC hotshots, a pricy toy which floats above you as you go about your whatever, filming your every police confrontation, outdoor sex romp (drone porn! Sort of NSFW beautiful, really), carjacking, lawn dart bingo game, drunken poolside stunt, marriage vows riot footage suicidal bridge jump orgiastic naked trapeze Burning Man horseback riding hula hoop hot coals conflagration.
Or rather, it follows a beacon around, taking 1080p video of whatever that beacon is attached to — you, your terrified cat, your wailing toddler, your ex wife, the roof of your car, a bike, a cop, a baffled pelican, another drone, the Secret Service, you name it.The Lily tracker beacon thing. When the drone itself gets down to this size, and it's controlled by the Apple Watch? THEN you're on to something.See those cute little “eyes”? And the cute name? Do you feel reassured? Toss it. And run for your life.Can you foresee what’s coming? How this might mutate and churn? How long will it take until everyone’s sick of seeing your drone video of yourself jumping on a trampoline or running through the woods or taking that killer mogul on your snowboard, bro?
How long until we all find ourselves just standing there, pinned to the ground in psychotic wonder, staring up at our drones looking back at us, each recording the other’s blank stare, drone meets drone and Void meets Void, no longer able to remember which is which and why it ever mattered, until we die?• Email: Mark Morford• Mark Morford on Twitter and Facebook.blog.sfgate.com/morford/2015/05/14/the-new-selfie-is-drone-video
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