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So, flying at night, out of LOS, around a manned aircraft... No the punishment feels about right to me. What was this guy thinking?
Just an aside... Notice the FPVLR set-up on the remote. Looks like a non amplified V1
Presumably this is why FAA/CAA/EASA require more stringent conditions/training to allow night VFR?You guys must not have much flying experience if that's how you feel. Visibility is very good at night, with the lights it's actually easier to maintain line of sight as well as orientation much farther away than during the day in fact.
Visibility is less at night if you have no lights, however if you have lights on the object you're looking at then it's visible from a much farther distance in darkness than it is during the day. See those bright white things in the sky at night? They are millions, billions, trillions of miles away yet you see them clearly at night. Can't see them at all during the day however. Same goes for any other object be it a car, a plane or a uav. When it's got lights at night you can see them at much greater distances than you can during the daylight.Presumably this is why FAA/CAA/EASA require more stringent conditions/training to allow night VFR?
Visibility is LESS at night in respect of all manner of things - cloud cover, depth perception and situational awareness is affected.
However, I do not have much flying experience so take it up with the FAA under FAR or the ICAO?
Ahh I allready thought so.I know a guy who is given flighttraining in the U.KHowever, I do not have much flying experience
As someone who's flown at night quite often I think a complete ban on night flying is without any legitimate reason. I would be more willing to understand a lower ceiling and a max distance of a half mile away at night or something, but a complete ban is ridiculous and without merit.
Distance subject to conditions, in a city the other lights could possibly overpower those on the uav making shorter safe flying distances more likely but like I said I've flown in the middle of nowhere rural country at night and could easily see the lights on my inspire from a mile and a half away. It was very easy to spot again after looking away and trying to find it again. It would be easy to see even from a much greater distance than that under those conditions if battery power allowed for further flight distance and safe return.I can't agree with that, a lower ceiling and 800m range is crazy, line of sight is normally much less than this in daylight, just because you have lights you can see does not always mean you can see the lights, in a city environment there are other right sources that would detract from the lights on the drone.
So lets look at this reasonably, if 120m is reasonable in the day what is reasonable during the night? 60m...??? If that is the case then good luck flying anywhere in a city, as you must remain 50 m from any building, thus making flight impossible.
I agree a complete ban is silly, but commercial pilots should have the option, but we come back to the why can they do it but not us... There is no simple hard fast answer to drones and unless people start to behave sensibly, we will never get what we want so it is crazy to think we will. All we can do is remain safe and follow rules (whatever they are) ourselves...!
The ignorance of some people who own drones is just crazy...!
I do a bit of work in a ski resort, we are pre-empting the amount of drones people will get this xmas, we have already all but banned them, and if you want to fly, you need permission from the management, and you sign to say you are personally liable if anything happens, they are also limited to 2 at any one time. That way people can still fly, but they retain control. Will be interesting to see how it pans out...
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