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Those two are pretty different scenarios, and your model will cross above the road at some point if it's following you.
 
I see no difference. If you can fly in a field next to a road, you can fly. The South Wales club fly theirs across several roads as somehow they can spot what that dot in the sky is doing a mile away...
 
Also don't fly over, or within 150 metres, of congested areas, such as roads. People seem to be getting in trouble a lot recently with these drones.
 
Well, the people (I heard about) who got in to trouble with drones were being exceptionally stupid about it, like flying one in to a football stadium. I wouldn't call a quiet country lane a congested area, if the copter fell from the sky, the chances of it doing anything is slim. The 150m rule is nonsense, if an aircraft lost signal from the controller for any reason, it would go a lot further than 150m.

There are some quads out there that are GPS equipped, and the default is to fly back the exact route it came and land where it took off from. Sensible, and very, very neat!
 
Is a great idea, I completely agree, but the aviation authorities are really cracking down on unauthorised public use.
 
I think filing yourself with a GoPro is outside the scope of video surveillance discussed in the CAA rules though. Very easy to prove what you are using it for considering you're in the arse end of nowhere on a bike...
 
Any camera attached to one of these drones means it's considered as a small unmanned surveillance aircraft as far as I have read, and uploading it to YouTube seems to constitute as receiving "valuable consideration" for your activities.

Anyway, I'm not a lawyer and can't be bothered to spend my evening researching this so I'll leave it there :p

Just be careful if any of you decide to give something like this a go and find out the law in your area.
 
Who knows what the FAA will decide :/ . They're having trouble with the public getting these things in front of jumbo jets of the runway approaches to airports... heck, one just crash-landed on the White House lawn a few days ago :p . They may even make it where you need a license to fly one... don't know, but the federal government is pushing the FAA to get something into place sometime soon...

...another problem is enforcement, so... only time will tell :p ;) .
 
Sounds about right, doesn't it ;) ? There are now even some "experts" who are calling them "security threats" ~_~ .....
 
i highly doubt they'll ever be used on the road. too many ways to get your quadrotor ran over or caught up in power lines or shot down by red necks mistaking it for clay pigeons (like me). i don't think there's any way it can be practical for anything more than what c2w just did.
 
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