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The first global drone standards have been revealed
As drone use grows, rules and regulations remain in flux and vary among jurisdictions. Last month, for instance, the Federal Aviation Administration granted operators of certain drones approval to fly them in controlled airspace in the US, but the UK has an outright ban on using them within a kilometer of airports. To help establish best practices, the International Organization for Standardization has released the first draft set of global standards for drone use.
The draft does suggest no-fly zones around airports and other restricted areas, along with geofencing measures to keep drones away from sensitive locations. The standards also call for drone operators to respect others' privacy and a human intervention fail-safe for all flights. The ISO additionally suggested that training, flight logging and maintenance requirements should be in place, along with data protection rules.
[...] The draft set of standards was released just as the UK's air safety board said about half of air traffic incidents are drone-related. More sets of ISO drone standards will follow, which will cover technical specs, traffic control, and manufacturing quality.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 29 2018, @06:17AM (3 children)
So a drone nerd think he knows better than pilots whether there is a risk of collision. I'm shocked.
Face it, your stupid hobby is going to be regulated to death, and the rest of us won't care, because it will be your fault.
(Score: 2) by qzm on Thursday November 29 2018, @08:47AM (2 children)
Actually I am a pilot (private..), and I dont fly drones (I had a toy one, and lost interest very fast).
Care to try again Troll? (yes, why do I bother with the flood in stupid ACs these days...)
(Score: 2) by Bot on Thursday November 29 2018, @01:07PM (1 child)
You should try some RC helicopter with collective pitch.
Account abandoned.
(Score: 2) by Knowledge Troll on Thursday November 29 2018, @04:13PM
I can fly anything that has an auto-level feature right now and hardly ever crash them. I can fly with out the leveler on and I have a 180 class quad I use for practicing that out in the real world. In the simulator I'm flying T-Rex 500 class collective pitch helis and can even some times do an upside down hover for 5 or 10 seconds.
$10s of dollars in parts for my real world trainer so far - probably thousands of dollars in parts for the simulated T-Rex. Tons of fun!
I do have a fixed pitch heli but it isn't very satisfying.