Oh yeah, but it does allow others to see itāll be busy!
Going back to the og postā¦ If youāre there chatting to the guy you have a great chance of coordinating with each other to avoid each other! Itās actually quite hard for two drones (or drone and plane) to hit each other in 3d space when trying to do it, let alone by accident. If we was 100s of meters away and no way to chat then yeah I guess it ācouldā happen. Wait 10 minutes go up yourself, have a chat, one goes one way one the otherā¦
There is no requirement, and it gives you no extra rights. As said before if everyone logged one, then maybe itād help, but unless enforced (donāt give the CAA ideas please), that wonāt come close to happening IMO
Well - I guess you were only 0.6 miles from the airfield ā¦ they aināt gonna cancel all flying for you, are they.
I donāt recall a NOTAM being logged (I may be incorrect?) ā¦ just loads (and I mean ā¦ āLOADSā) ā¦ of flight reports logged, and I believe the gliding club was made aware.
am I over thinking thisā¦ itās a droneā¦ normally less that 1kg and of size 300x300x100mmā¦
do we not just have a chat with the other guys flying if we are concerned?
I forget how many drones we had in the air at the last meetā¦ and other that some whatnot end (me) fpving a mini3 pro above the grasstops past a couple of involved persons and to the left (1 ~2m) of another drone at full throttle I donāt think we had any issuesā¦
(I could clearly see where I was going and what was about)
ā¦ for everything else we generally had a nearby zone that everything non FPV was flying and then an outer ring (plus between the treesā¦ all VLOS) where everything FPV flewā¦
Iām not being funny but it aināt that hard to see where others are flying and come up with your own exclusion zone of where others are active and also your return to home landing path as part of a Dynamic Risk Assessmentā¦
Iād be more than happy to meet someone when Iām out and about ā¦
(please donāt give the CAA the idea weāve got to book airspace and exclusion zones!). bit of a chat and VLOS flying is all thatās required
I think itād have to be a f big drone to bring down a gliderā¦ I mean itās got no engine to ingest the drone and itās designed to well ā¦ glide!
at worstā¦ Iām guessing it will dent a leading edge of a wing if it were big and heavy (DJI fpv?)
but then againā¦ the flight rules are the flight rulesā¦ separation distances etc. VFRā¦ they should be above 500ft except when landing or taking off
just wondering if any of them listed any near misses on that quarterly near miss log thatās always interesting to readā¦ plane flying at FL290, co pilot thought he saw a 1m long cigar shaped drone 50m off the wingā¦ ā¦ asked the pilot ādid you see thatā (at 300mphā¦). āsee what?āā¦ but following discussionā¦ decided it must have been a droneā¦
Iāll register a flight generally but not always.
If im hiking or somewhere rural thereās often not a phone or data signal to allow me to do so.
Itās good practice but not aways feasible. If its commercial or working with others then yes its normally a set time and/or place and ahead of time so easy. If im hiking in the hills and suddenly see something that looks nice i often cant do it.
Any time ive been flying around the same object as someone else (i) its pretty easy to find the operator and (ii) easy enough to have a chat to make sure weāre not in each others way.
Ive never yet had any negative experiences from other drone operators.
