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UAV Pilot Charged with Felony
The owner of a video-camera-equipped Hexacopter flying near the scene of a car accident in Springfield, Ohio, earlier this week was charged with felony obstruction after police said he refused to land his UAV even as a medevac helicopter prepared to touch down. (www.flyingmag.com) Plus d'info...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
... is refusing to be cooperative, whether involving a UAV or not, is still a refusal to be cooperative.
Creating an unnecessary safety hazard with a UAV should be prosecuted appropriately. But shouldn't impact the ability of other cooperative and otherwise law-abusing citizens to be able to fly small remote controlled planes near the ground.
Creating an unnecessary safety hazard with a UAV should be prosecuted appropriately. But shouldn't impact the ability of other cooperative and otherwise law-abusing citizens to be able to fly small remote controlled planes near the ground.
If it was your wife or daughter waiting for the life saving ride you might be a little less tolerant of the interference. If the operator was told that the helicopter was on the way he shouldn't even have to be told what to do. He should just do it. How can the level of risk presented by the UAV even be a point of discussion? We're talking about saving a life vs 10 seconds of pointless video on the evening news. Just having the right to do something doesn't make it right to do it
Speaking as a commercial pilot who also flies a 65 hp open cockpit airplane for recreation at low but legal altitudes, I do NOT want to share the airspace with ANY aircraft that does not have an on board pilot, or a remote control pilot with constant visual contact with the aircraft. I expect the remote control pilot to obey applicable rules and regs. Having said that, there are few things more disgusting than an official abusing his authority. Dr. Jim.
Maybe,He Thought,He Was Picking Up The Wounded! LOL
if the authorities tell you to do something...ahhh...do it?
Ahhhhh, no. What if they think they have the authority and they don't? If you always yield to authority, authority expands and freedom contracts.
Lookit, you know *exactly* what happened here. The policeman, rather than trying to persuade the UAV pilot to land, simply ordered him to land, without explaining why. A hexacopter with a camera is an expensive bit of hardware, and the pilot isn't going to risk it crashing in the propwash of a helicopter. He's GONNA get it out of the way.
It's completely understandable why the policeman wants total control over everything. It's also completely understandable why the policeman wants a pony and a billion dollars, too. You don't always get everything you want, because other people have the same freedom you do.
This whole situation could have been avoided had the policeman simply said "You might want to land that thing. We have an incoming helicopter."
Lookit, you know *exactly* what happened here. The policeman, rather than trying to persuade the UAV pilot to land, simply ordered him to land, without explaining why. A hexacopter with a camera is an expensive bit of hardware, and the pilot isn't going to risk it crashing in the propwash of a helicopter. He's GONNA get it out of the way.
It's completely understandable why the policeman wants total control over everything. It's also completely understandable why the policeman wants a pony and a billion dollars, too. You don't always get everything you want, because other people have the same freedom you do.
This whole situation could have been avoided had the policeman simply said "You might want to land that thing. We have an incoming helicopter."
That does not sound like a good power trip....more and more however the cops are going down. This is a perfect example of a typical modern cop http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/suburbs/glenview/ct-police-testimony-lies-met-20140415,0,2209695.story
Refusing to cooperate in an emergency situation, in which there is a need to land a medevac