I tend to disagree. Drones can crash due to mechanical or electrical failures, and by human error. The problem is lack of experience and training. Anything that flies joins the world of aviation. I have several thousand hours of flight time in various aircraft, no accidents. Now a couple hundred in three different drones and no accidents. I have also been through the Avion UAV school in Huntsville, AL
Reason being is training, then experience. The military puts pilots through extensive training, civilian aviation requires a minimum of forty flight hours to get a pilots license. For civilians it is normally seven to ten hours before they are allowed to solo.
Average person goes down buys drone takes it out and attempts to teach him or herself how to fly it. What if the average person went out and bought and airplane and decided to teach themselves how to fly.
As for the mechanical failures, majority of the time is due to poor preventive maintenance. The company I work for lost an Inspire 1 due to catastrophic battery failure. The pilot had made a comment that he would need some new batteries soon because they were beginning to swell, basically human error.
There are old pilots, and there are bold pilots, but there are no old bold pilots.
Bovine feces!!!! Don't forget you are talking to a pilot, perhaps one not as good an aviator as you. When a planes crashes we pilots all think it
has to be pilot error. It reinforces our belief in our superiority and reassures us we are always in control. "It had to be pilot error, but
I am too smart, it can't happen to me!". If we didn't believe it we'd never go up again.
I had a P3 dropped from the sky, motor just stopped (obviously my fault), and a P4 that decided to go on it's own and ignore all my commands (maybe it didn't like me). Eventually came down and crashed. P3 was out of warranty but the dealer replaced the P4,
not bad for pilot error...
Your statement that "As for the mechanical failures, majority of the time is due to poor preventive maintenance" is an incredibly naive, uninformed opinion. Machines break for no logical reasons.
"The problem is lack of experience and training. "
Could you explain how the deaths of the three Apollo 1 astronauts were pilot error? Guess Grissom wasn't experienced enough? Shuttles Challenger and Columbia were pilot errors? Anything mans puts up in the sky can drop for a thousand reasons. Happens all the time; were the 737MAX crashes and deaths pilot error?
Funny thing, I used to think the same way about the mythical flyaway...
it has to be rookie pilots. Those two crashes changed my mind in a hurry. I sincerely wish your super UAS pilot luck holds forever and your drones stay aloft.
"There are old pilots, and there are bold pilots, but there are no old bold pilots."
And there are no old arrogant pilots, either.