I’ve been thinking lately that the rules around having a spotted for when you’re flying FPV might not make sense for the Antigravity A1.
When I’m wearing the FPV googles, I can turn in any direction and have a wide field of view.
It feels quite restrictive to need to have someone with me watching the drone in person almost feels a little redundant.
I’m new to this, and slightly obsessed with flying my drone but was interested in others thought on their views on this.
Like any FPV drone your only looking in one direction at any given time - so you cant always see the danger that lurks behind your view. So VLOS is needed to see the area around the drone and being able to see the drone is so you know what area around the drone has the danger in it.
This is a tedious debate around FPV flying - you only need to watch a handful of videos online to know that most do not have a spotter or its impossible for a spotter to keep an eye on the drone.
Most if not all FPV pilots are below 50f as they love that close to the ground / close to the object sort of flying that no aircraft will ever be remotely close too - they like to zip this way and that way and unless the operator is yelling out his next move the spotter will have no idea where that 60mph pocket rocket is going to go to keep visual on. And as it darts behind a wall though a window down a chimney stack how you keep an eye on that I have no idea.
Bottom line its all about risk and risk mitigation - have you ever seen a report of a FPV pilot being prosecuted for breaking the rules ? Seen loads about normal camera drones but yet to see FPV pilots ( MMM Ok think I seem to remember one at a gig that got into trouble some time back - but not 100% sure )