DeuceDriv3r
First Officer
Flight distance : 4698533 ft
United States
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KerryG Posted at 12-7 12:40
At least in the US, someone is REQUIRED to be at the controls at ALL TIMES. Precision landing is not a requirement at all when someone is supposed to be piloting the aircraft.
unless of course you have a controller failure.. and you have to sit there and watch the mavic return home on its own.. flail and crash because, as a first responder, you had to take off in a tight place...
precision landing is a SAFETY feature and it should not be excluded .. big fail with precision landing is that DJI rely on a well lit area in the visible spectrum .. too bad the belly camera wasn't IR or some other tech that didn't require good lighting of the landing area..
just because you have to be "at" the controls doesn't mean you have to be "on" the controls''
why should I fly a orbit by hand and try to manipulate and scan the camera feed or use the speaker.. when the drone is capable of maintaining a orbit or any other of a bunch of useful pre-canned flight patterns on its own --- autopilot..
you use p-mode right.. well that is an automated mode.. I guess you fly around all the time in atti which too actually is partially automated.. DJI drones mostly can't do a pure rate mode where you really have to keep it level and in the air like a race drone..
also, first responders are a govt agency and can get waivers to do whatever they want, and fly in airspace that becomes 'theirs' when they operate so the only other air traffic is their own assets...
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