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Record-Breaking 11000ft Flight Sparks Criticism In Pilot Community
An anonymous reader writes: In an attempt to break the world 'how high can you fly a consumer drone' record, an anonymous person from the Netherlands flew a Phantom 2 Quadcopter to a height of up to 3.4 km. That is more than 3 km above the maximum European Union legal height of 120 meters, which has applied since July 1, 2015 to hobby drones. Undoubtedly he set a new record of sorts, which also led to substantial discussions among the drone pilot community on the safe use of drones. At a height of 3.4 kilometers or 11000 feet you can indeed run into regular air traffic, or cause a lot of damage in case of a crash. Fortunately not in this flight -- but the battery had only 4% capacity at the moment of landing.
What ever happened to survival of the fittest. If your plane is strong enough and has enough defenses if should be able to survive a drone strike. I'm sorry but saying that drones are dangerous strikes me as being a lot racist. I mean if you were to say that we shouldn't allow black people in our neighborhood because I you might run into them and you would be damaged, and you never know what those black people are going to do because they haven't received the proper training in how not to rob people, you would be called out as a bigot. But you are doing this same exact things with drones. Replace the word 'drone' with the word 'nigger' and 'plane' with 'white people', you will see what I mean.
'Hey we can't have all those niggers hanging out with us white people at 11000. It is too dangerous. Niggers should not be allowed to travel over 400 feet, and they should have tatoos stenciled on them so law enforcement can track down the nigger's owner if it does anything stupid.'
Equal rights for drones.
It is truly disturbing to me that a pilot such as yourself should be such a racist. I thought pilots were better. Guess not.