RC Drone News: drone causes helicopter to crash? Another iconic brand gone forever18:54

haha… I had to watch a DJI “race version” headset ad first. “Only 50ms latency! Covers your entire head!”

hahaha… unintentionally funniest xjet vlog ever. I thought the ironic DJI ad was enough hilarity, but it only gets better! I cannot believe the price of dope these days either. I think older fellas have to pay even more. “Buttgrinder” probably has a dope sponsor.

Here in the land of the free, the land of Cowboys, our government would like nothing better than we all plunk down $200 for a team jersey and $125 for a team cap, and that we spend all our free time in front of our TVs watching our team, drinking beer, and occasionally beating our wives out of pure desperation. The truth is fear that we are getting too smart. Consider the Skydio R1 drone. It is fully autonomous, requires no pilot. It can be pre programed to chase people wearing a particular color of clothing that are actively trying to hide from the drone. It can fly around obstacles as it chases it’s target. Imagine the applications and implications of such off the shelf “toy” technology that is readily available to anyone. So, the way I see it, governments will continue to look for excuses to dumb us all down, to keep us as mere cattle. Moooo.

So by this logic, your stating that for “safety” we must give up more rights… I’m sorry but I’m highly opposed. Everyone should use common sense, it’s not rocket science.

Yep dunno, doesn’t make much sense to me that you’d crash to avoid crashing. I wasn’t there so I’m not making any judgement or drawing any conclusions. I’ll let the people with actual information work that out, for everyone else it’s only guess work.

have used that iron in years . Now I can chuck it without concern. yay
What if a bush walker was struct by material blown up by the helicopters wash. The helicopter pilot was the one endangering the public, don’t you think.

Sounds like a low hour instructor teaching a low hour student. Crash, make up a story or it will be the end of my flying career before it really even starts. There no mention of the instructors total hours which is strange. Most flying incidents reported generally states the flying hours / experience of the PIC.

I disagree! Manned aviation need make no accomadation’s for drone’s. Drones will use what airspace is unused by manned flight.I am a full scale pilot and also fly many type’s of drone’s as well. Drone’s must alway’s yield to full scale craft.

In the U.S. min. altitude {AGL} near populated area’s is 1500 ft. with restriction’s. 500 ft. {AGL} is very restricted to unpopulated area’s. $00 ft.{AGL} is open for drone’s w/ restriction’s. Report the N- number’s to the nearest airport when u see a illegal low flight. I live at over 8,000 ft and we have a phone number to report low flying military aircraft. Sometimes the jet’s fighter’s, chinook’s, and osprey’s fly as low as 50 – 250 ft. Right through my “special use” airspace. I yield, and land asap to avoid a conflict. We all have to fly in the other man’s shoe’s and be considerate to be safe.

One less R-22 in the world can only be a good thing, especially if the pilot’s are okay. Any belt driven underpowered, teetering head, low rotor mass helicopter which has horrible tendencies at the hands of inexperienced pilots is going to have these incidents regularly.. as R-22’s do, but now it was someone else’s fault! Bart Simpson learning to fly… ‘It Wasn’t Me..”

I had an incident a few years back flying a drone at river. I flew behind me and down a road then turned around and came back, hovered then made a left turn and landed where I was sitting to change the battery. A woman came over and told me that I almost hit her! She was exiting a trail and I was facing her. Now there was 60 feet between her and I and I was not moving at the time. People are paranoid because of media and false facts! The woman told me “Drones are DANGEROUS!” I would have shown her the recording but I didn’t know how to bring it up on the camera.

Hey Bruce, love these incident update videos! I completely agree with your premise of distributing air space to increase safety, however, is it really plausible? For example, how would emergency service helicopters operate safely? Due to their very nature the sub 400ft height limit is their bread and butter and since an emergency is a dynamic situation, even creating temporary restrictions to the space they may be operating would be impossible, for say, a car chase or some such?… can’t see how that could be legislated for bit if there is a way, I’m in!! ?

It’s always a phantom drone because people know nothing about drone, they don’t know that exist other drone than the phantom, so blame the phantom, good for me because i have no phantom but a jjpro p200 so i will never be accuse of collision with an helicopter !

Because of the “blame drones game” going on here in the US, along with living near some “paranoid” neighbors who apparently think that UAVs could be spying on them thru their living room windows, I’ve forsaken flying “drones”, or as I prefer to call them, multi rotor UAVs outdoors. I hate calling them drones actually because it invokes the military connotation which in today’s world means spying and missile strikes. It’s a very negative and undeserving association purposely intended to add to the negative narrative concerning not only the military usage but the hobby activity as well. Therefore, I have gone back to flying traditional RC aircraft (mostly gliders and DLGs) outdoors because they are more obviously models with a long history of usage. I still fly the micro multirotor UAVs in my house or inside large buildings, but my small fleet of larger home built UAVs are now all hanger queens.

I enjoy watching many of your videos on both channels and thank you for being a staunch advocate for logic and reason concerning the hobby.

Can I have a roll of idiots for solar flim

Sir, I have 2 DJI drones. A Phantom 3 Standard and a Mavic Pro. The claims by the pilot and student pilot are ridiculous saying it was a Phantom 4. I can barely see the DJI logo on my Phantom 3 just a few feet away when lifting off. The instructor and student pilot should be grounded for falsifying claims about a near collision to the FAA.

1:40 I agree, Dope is REAL expensive these days. I don’t get mine in tins though, it comes in baggies.

I heard it was a Phantom 4 Pro, not a Phantom 4.

It was swamp gas no drone

DJI is fully co-operating with the FAA, lets hope DJI doesn’t log your flights.

there is no way in hell that a drone could get past the downdraft of a maned helicopter hovering to hit the body of it yes a drone could hit the rotors but it would still be a one sided fight why the hell didn’t the student pull up on the collective you have one point wrong hovering is the last thing maned helicopter pilots learn they even learn to land without hovering

I have never had an R/C crash I could not walk away from

Have you seen this today?

You brought back memories of Monokote. I started building balsa trainers in the late 70’s. It was indeed a labor of love and I spent 3 months building it. Had an old Kraft radio and a .45 motor. I never belonged to a club, although I had the owner of a hobby shop test fly my plane. 8 years ago, got back into electric helicopters and recently 2.4 ghz quadcopters. The hobby has indeed changed through technology. You are correct about the technology growing the number of people involved with flying. Unfortunately, we see many who have no clue on the regulations, etc. just grabbing their drone and flying over people in a park or a city. That’s going to be the downfall of this hobby or will restrict flights to AMA/FAA approved fields. I’m also an AMA member and have my FAA number on all my aircraft. I’m also a private pilot….