So I was down at my favourite spot this afternoon and along come a fellow drone pilot. He said to me he was capturing the same vessel sailing by as I was.
I asked him had he heard of Dronescence / Drone Assist because there was nothing on there relating to his flight when I filed mine? Had there been I would have avoided the area - apparently because he was only flying at 50m he didnāt deem it fit to use either platform and the fact he had been booted off Drone Assist because of some App update it was never used again.
Give me strength, it doesnāt matter if youāre flying at 10m or 120m, file your flight so the wider drone community can see whoās in the area. Itās not hard is it!
The last thing I want is to have a mid air collision because somebody else canāt be bothered to spend a couple of minutes keeping other fellow drone pilots informed.
Thing is, how many of us actually file a flight plan ? Iāve only filed three on Drone Assist ( two were in FRZās and one was local to me ( filming some kids football training)) Otherwise, Iām just the regular recreational flier. Donāt know where Iām going to fly from one day to the next ( Thanks Met Office for telling me itās going to rain, then be dry all day )
If you were to fly where I regularly fly, it would be common sense to file a plan as other drone users are about at times and Iāve seen these plans and given the area a miss and moved further up river.
Prevention surely is better than risking your drone to a potential collision?
Itās just a busy area for recreational flying, and a number of recreational flyers do file them out of courtesy to inform other flyers. Nothing wrong at all in that.
Well, mainly recreational flying, I honestly donāt know where Iām going to fly from one week to the next. I do use Drone Assist, but Iām hesitant to put up a flight thatās not planned as it wonāt show until Iām about to fly, so not much warning to other fliers
Iāve never in 2-3 years of flying, filed a flight plan, wouldnāt know howā¦ Iām sure a quick search on here would tell me, and if not Iād get an answer.
Iām genuinely thinking why I wouldā¦ Nopeā¦ Nothing comingā¦ OK itās nice to see other flyers, etc, and maybe Iād avoid itā¦ Maybe as itās FPV in the main I fly and donāt want to attract attention. Also it tends to be spare of the moment. Iāll check drone scene, etc for restrictions.
So Iām discourteous? Hmmm
Maybe road users could log their planned drives, so weād know when people on the roads, and pick quieter times. Or runners log their plans to run down a path, or dog walkers (some dogs donāt get on with each other) could have a site to log thatā¦ orā¦
Serious question, who does regularly log their flights other than the op (for hobby/recreational flights)?
Yeah didnāt think be hard, never looked. Like with all these things, unless everyone does it, makes it kind of pointless for you. Maybe I will log mine, or test it out, not against doing it per seā¦ Never thought about logging one TBH!
We had a NOTAM didnāt we for big meet? Didnāt stop manned gliders flying right through us
Why? Commercial?
