I read a previous post further up the page where someone states it's the fault of the operator if a quad decides to "fly away" Nothing could be further from the truth. There are many reasons why one could go it's own way. Loss of signal, faulty FC, interference from an RF source. I think it's safe to say the fault originating from the pilot would be in the minority.

I am sure it was not meant that way stu. Whatever may be the reason for the flyaway but the pilot is fully responsible for the consequent outcome and resultant damages. A pilot cannot absolve himself on this account.

ok, someone give this guy a cookie. out of countless idiot moves in human history, this guy takes the cake...and then some.
 let's have a big round of birdies for "DRONE OVER AIRPORT" 

we found a human without brain and that too alive and fully functional !!!

Well said sundaram. People will always try to find something to blame other than one's self. As for the videos shown above this post. This is one person,s video has done more damage to our hobby than other video ever made. Anyone trying to have out quadcopters banned can use this to show what an irresponsible and loutish bunch of criminals we all are.

Talk about give it to them on a platter. We will all be tarred with the same brush. Being an idiot is one thing, but to advertise the fact by posting proof of it on the Internet would have to be the height of stupidity. This person should be found and have the book thrown at him, then receive a quadcopter implant.    Stu

Quad copter implant.  > >.   

one time offer!! who ever wants to do a quad implant or shove up a quad up his ***!!  >   here he is:-

pilots i present to you:-
ASPETMANUKYAN
http://www.aspetmanukyan.com/eng/about.html

yup!! he's the guy piloting the dji in the video!!

regards,
JK

Sorry guys, I was just trying to say it politely. You obviously got my message. 

I honestly can't believe anyone would be so stupid as to do such a flight on purpose and not realise it not only dangerous but absolutely idiotic. Some people will do it simply for their own ego. How many pilots do you see with "Hey Look At Me" problem. Obviously there's various degrees of it, but this person (Maybe we shouldn't call him a pilot) may be just looking for notoriety. Maybe he gets his kicks from having people talk about him no matter the reason. He's definitely seen the error of his ways. After the initial rush of having it on YouTube wore off, because he did remove it. It's just a shame the idiot who reposted it did so.

 It would have been a lot better for all decent Hobbyists for it to have vanished. The video will now be used by those who don't want us to have copters in any form other than those you can only use indoors. We can only hope some other clown doesn't get the same idea. It's up to all of us to prove we're not that stupid.

If your tempted to get footage of a bad motor vehicle accident, DON"T EVER fly over the scene. I've seen news teams doing it and think it's OK. One day the copter is going to fall out of the sky. Just imagine a Lipo and petrol mixing, maybe the lipo doesn't burst but the impact will definitely have something going SPLAT, Suddenly it's much more than a MVA I think you can imagine how that story would pan out.

A big rock concert or any large gathering of people. How many times have you seen aerial footage of one? Far too often I think. Imagine the copter dropping on some poor soul from 200 feet or more. Again, think of the headlines.

The message? stop and think. We all know copters haven't reached the stage of being infallible. Something will always go wrong at the worst possible moment. It's called Murphy's Law. Don't become a walking headline, unless it's in a positive way of course. Play safe and protect out hobby, Please. Because it's my hobby as well.

Totally agreed!!

OOOH!!! It happened!! anything left?

http://time.com/3682307/white-house-drone-crash/

I'll say this out loud , dji phantom is by far the worst thing that has happened to this hobby .

Absolutely....

 >:(Sorry that I don't know much about 'drones' or different hobby multirotors, but am following the various discussions that are going on in the forum with interest . It is 100% - nay, 1000% that we 'must' care for safety aspect and use the hobby 'responsibly' .
 
Or else, the hobby is going to be alienated from us by the irresponsible misdeeds of a few baddies or stupid persons - just like the religion is being misused by a few (??) terrorists maligning the entire religion and mankind.  :banghead:What does any Govt / Authority (not well-informed) would do when there is already 'Extremism' is prevalent in many parts of our nation? See the following link. It is just a crude example.



(Don't know how to put in the link...my crude way.  .) 

BEWARE OF DRONES
THIS IS WHAT YOU GET WHEN YOU COMBINE FIREWORKS, DRONES, AND STUPID FRIENDS.

It's not about a brand. It's about ready-made vs DIY.

When you build your own quad, you do a lot of reading and thinking beforehand. Then, there's the hard work involved in building and testing it. A lot of problems are faced and a lot of time is spent on online forums solving them. This way, you learn to love and respect your aircraft.

With ready-to-fly quads, more often than not, it's rich guys with large wallets and small brains. I just hope we don't loose this great hobby to stupid people too!

Just another sample    of the of the possible scenario of that can cause second thoughts about the multirotors for the authorities. Negative publicity in deed : 

Doc,
You haven't sent a link to DGCA yet ...

I know its not about a brand , but little common sense is required . We use to fly at a ground which was like ten feet away from my house , i stoped flying there just because i thought what if the link of my radio fails . That was the day i decided i wont fly until i get my own personal place to fly , the very next day i started the work of my own airstip (yes iam a bit over paranoid) . But i feel much safer now , i know my model wont fall on somebodys head . Then there are people flying over AIRPORTS , I recently saw a weeding photographer with a dji phantom , i asked him what if something fails snd he replied "sir this a 1 lakh rs machine it never fails , and even if it does it wont hurt anybody" this attitude will get him int trouble one day .

agree with your thought...
regards

Yeah this exactly is the attitude of videographers who use DJI Phantom with out any interest in RC.

It is no match for the one I have, here you see that there is plenty of noise, well , I give a clue, that in my views, noise and movement detected, and target can be fixed, even while in motion, my beacons weapons are highly or simply placed by parachutes or remotely, position fixed, without anynoise, as noise are easily detected and marked, kill weapons must be  delivered through stealthy devices, that is the art of perfect think tanks, one must know exactly what happens on real battlefield, we already have fine perfected flying objects, then you are already close to many beacons weapons 

I'm so glad the idiot with the sub machine gun doesn't live anywhere close to me. His marvelous quad wasn't as good as he made out though. That video amounted to a few hours of footage being edited out. There is no way he could line up those bursts one after the other, owing to the recoil from the gun. His demo flying through the window was rather far fetched. You'd only have to grab hold of the quad to render it useless. Plus I doubt anyone would bother stand perfectly still while he lined up his next shot.

I'd say he was pushing for a Government contract, why else would anyone blow up a quad. That footage was shot in one take so the gun went up with the quad, not exactly cheap. Then again he probably made his money back from YouTube.

Although I wasn't impressed with the content, I was rather impressed with that controller he was using. In fact I would have preferred a video on the setup he had, minus the sub machine gun. He can kiss any hopes of some agency buying the rights to his quad. Everything he used was old technology. The super powers are way ahead of him. Maybe a few terrorist groups would show interest.

As for the White House rubbish. The guy flying that quad knew perfectly well what he was doing, he didn't mahage to land where he did by accident. I can only assume the crack snipers usually found on the roof of the White House aren't used when Obama isn't home. I did like the, "I'm not sure if it had a camera" Why else would it have been flown where it was without a camera to record the event. I doubt he'd get the SD card back if there was one.

I completely forgot about the moron with the fireworks quad. I'm not sure who rates higher on the moronic chart, The flyer or the target. Both could do with a few pyrotechnic lessons. The target was wearing shorts. if one of those fireballs were to land on one, it wouldn't let go in a hurry. By the time it did he's have a very large hole where his flesh used to be. I imagine he was wearing a synthetic shirt, one of those fireballs on his back and he's have no chance of getting it off. Imagine what that would do to what's underneath.

In the race to be the first to have certain items lashed to a quad we can expect many more of the same I expect. We've had a paintball gun, a handgun, Machine gun and fireworks. Nuclear devices anyone? That's not a challenge by the way. <-> Normally I would have popped in a smiley right there, trouble is, it's not funny. Neither are many of the comments the idiots get. A good indication of how many sick people there are in this world, and how many of them watch YouTube.   ...   Stu

The quad used by fps Russia is cgi.... You can tell by the way it takes off and flies.... Also by reading the youtube comments....