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Agreed. That's why we have rules, and this guy broke #1. Stuff breaks and that is the singlemost reason not to fly over people. Airmanship is not intuitive, it is learned (every hour I spend with a CFI getting my private, and commercial certificate was invaluable). That is why the new USA Part 107 rules will not fix this, it'll make it worse. Every knucklehead who injures someone will use, as a first line of defense, "but I am a FAA certified remote pilot." The public, nor the uncurious media, will not understand it's just a meaningless written exam any 16 YOA can pass.
I recently performed a demonstration for a group of law enforcement officers interested in working on their own public COA. . I gave them a schematic diagram showing my launch point, my line of flight, and most important, the spectator area. The demo was conducted relying on "air show rules" always aligning the flight path (the line of energy/momentum parallel to the crowd, should anything go wrong the bird would continue to move perpendicular to the spectators and not into them). I'd like to think the average newly minted FAA Remote Pilot would always play it this safe...but I know better. |
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