My grandson got me watching drone crashes on Utube. Some of the mistakes I noticed were do to altitude, fuel (battery voltage), and obvious inexperience.
Altitude is your friend, it gives you time to react to the unexpected.
I seen a few accidents where the drone operator was flying just a few feet off the ground in a congested areas and was obviously inexperienced.
I watched one video where the operators again were inexperienced and ran the drone out of site and power.
I think most prudent people will not wait until there cars gas gauge says empty to start thinking about getting gas.
It amazes me how low people will drain their batteries before deciding to land.
My personal practice is when my batteries hit 30% I want to be prepared to land, and at 25% I’m landing.
Some will say, gee you still have several minutes of flight time remaining, and they would be correct, but I don’t wait until I’m about out of power to land.
Not only that my batteries don’t get overheated. The motors are going to demand the same amount of power, and as voltage goes down, amperage draw increases, and as amps increase, heat increases.
I believe what the FAA needs to do is at the very least have an educational video that must be watched prior to purchasing a drone.
We may call these mistakes stupid, but the reality is most of what I saw was inexperience and lack of training.
Altitude is your friend, it gives you time to react to the unexpected.
I seen a few accidents where the drone operator was flying just a few feet off the ground in a congested areas and was obviously inexperienced.
I watched one video where the operators again were inexperienced and ran the drone out of site and power.
I think most prudent people will not wait until there cars gas gauge says empty to start thinking about getting gas.
It amazes me how low people will drain their batteries before deciding to land.
My personal practice is when my batteries hit 30% I want to be prepared to land, and at 25% I’m landing.
Some will say, gee you still have several minutes of flight time remaining, and they would be correct, but I don’t wait until I’m about out of power to land.
Not only that my batteries don’t get overheated. The motors are going to demand the same amount of power, and as voltage goes down, amperage draw increases, and as amps increase, heat increases.
I believe what the FAA needs to do is at the very least have an educational video that must be watched prior to purchasing a drone.
We may call these mistakes stupid, but the reality is most of what I saw was inexperience and lack of training.