MGreengrass
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Excellent news, there's a few cases where I've wanted to climb to 500+ meters up the side of a mountain which would equate to about 150m AGL so p much in legal limits and certainly within common sense safe limits. Nice that they've opened this limit up a little.
It's all about sensible risk management, and I've never understood the obsession with 250-900g consumer drones when eagles, pelicans, and other heavy birds weighing 6, 7, 8 kg are prevalent, with a number of species going over 10kg, which are many orders of magnitude heavier and more dangerous than a 250-900g drone. Never heard of a light aircraft being taken down by a multiple kg bird, the worst I've seen is one bust through a light aircraft windshield. And of course, these birds can obviously fly in and around airports unlike DJI drones. There are 100's of millions of heavier birds flying about at all sorts of altitudes and locations with no care for safety, vs. some thousands of 250g+ drones that spend very little time in the air in comparison to the average bird, and where the vast majority of pilots will be at least loosely following regulations and staying at low altitudes the vast majority of the time. So I sincerely doubt we'll ever hear of a drone causing any sort of light aircraft emergency, let alone a serious injury.
Still glad they have a 1000m limit, otherwise there'd be a few who would try going up several km where there are more planes travelling much faster, where you might have a drone be able to crack a plane windshield or take out even large turbofan engine with a perfectly placed hit. But still nothing that could conceivably cause bodily harm. |
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