Olympics drone down...

licensed pilot · Aug 15, 2016

BREAKING: Horror At Olympic Stadium – Drone Crashes Leaving Four Seriously Wounded

slim.slamma · Aug 15, 2016

licensed pilot said:
BREAKING: Horror At Olympic Stadium – Drone Crashes Leaving Four Seriously Wounded

Sad to read that.

Fingerprints should make it easy to find the perps in the end.

orangepeel · Aug 15, 2016

The steel cable that suspends the camera (not drone) broke.

slim.slamma · Aug 15, 2016

Different type of drone perhaps

Joola · Aug 15, 2016

Lol what idiot would call that a drone...oh yeah, the media. Well here's an outlet that got the story right.

licensed pilot · Aug 15, 2016

orangepeel said:
The steel cable that suspends the camera (not drone) broke.

Thanks for the clarification. So much for cable cameras being safer than drones.

SanCap · Aug 15, 2016

I am pretty sure all drone activity was banned for the olympics.

AMGPilot · Aug 15, 2016

That's a skycam not a drone. Use four winch motors and steel cables

InspiredOne · Aug 16, 2016

slim.slamma said:
Fingerprints should make it easy to find the perps in the end.

Only if their finger prints are on file.

Ftolino · Aug 18, 2016

Stop making speculations

lake_flyer · Aug 19, 2016

I speculate this could turn out in favour of multirotors.
With extremely powerful, redundant, tethered (unlimited flight time) and fully programmable multirotors coming to market, cable cams will eventually disappear.

MacDyver · Aug 19, 2016

Some folks are so eager to broadly paint sUAS's in a bad light they rush to judgment, fail to research or follow up on reports and quite simply refuses to acknowledge all of mankinds inventions has occasional failures. This tech is still hundreds of times safer than putting a manned aircraft overhead.

AMGPilot · Aug 19, 2016

lake_flyer said:
I speculate this could turn out in favour of multirotors.
With extremely powerful, redundant, tethered (unlimited flight time) and fully programmable multirotors coming to market, cable cams will eventually disappear.

NOPE. cable cams will always be inherently safer, lose power on a cable cam and it stays where is last was. lose power on a drone and it's "Death from the skies" Cable cams are also MUCH quieter

The Editor · Aug 19, 2016

AMGPilot said:
NOPE. cable cams will always be inherently safer, lose power on a cable cam and it stays where is last was. lose power on a drone and it's "Death from the skies" Cable cams are also MUCH quieter

And way more precise and controllable.
You can do 50mph with one or as delicate as 5 feet per minute!
Try doing the latter with repeatable precision with any mulitrotor on the planet - it just can't be done!

lake_flyer · Aug 20, 2016

The Editor said:
And way more precise and controllable.
You can do 50mph with one or as delicate as 5 feet per minute!
Try doing the latter with repeatable precision with any mulitrotor on the planet - it just can't be done!

Of course all absolutely true. I wasn't saying that drones are better or safer by any means at this moment.

I was talking about the future. Was still wearing my tin foil hat

But even after I take it off, I know we will see a lot of development in all fields, safety, precision, speed, power, redundancy, noise, size, intelligence.
Who knows what is possible in 10 years from now.

Accidents like this with cable cams (there been more) will get some smart folks thinking about using drone technologies. I'm convinced some serious developments are already being worked on.
It's mostly a matter of time before 'it just can't be done' becomes 'it just couldn't be done'.

I promise I let go of the tin foil. Going to need it for the BBQ anyway.