Reply to post: Re: Priorities

Bloke fined £460 after his drone screwed up police chopper search for missing woman

rg287

Re: Priorities

I am almost certain that a helicopter could suffer no damage at all if it was to make contact with a drone...

That depends on a given value of "drone".

A chunky camera rig like a DJI Phantom (the offender in question here) or something carrying a DSLR-class camera with enough mass/inertia for sensibly stable flight in wind and weather could indeed make a mess of a tail rotor.

By contrast a diddly little racing drone would be batted down like a gnat (not that such a thing would be out playing "in the wild" anyway).

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