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The mini is pretty damn quiet. At 50ft of altitude people don't hear it. AT 100ft of altitude people don't even see it. I've flown one hundreds of times and
by ben7799 3y ago
The mini is pretty damn quiet. At 50ft of altitude people don't hear it. AT 100ft of altitude people don't even see it.
I've flown one hundreds of times and other than other drone owners no one has ever said a thing or noticed. The drone owners notice and come over to talk drones.
- 4gotunameagain 3y agoThe others do not say a thing because they are polite probably :)
- enlyth 3y agoI got a proper bollocking when checking out some newly built houses with my drone, one of which I was thinking about buying. The lady thought I was trying to film her garden, probably warranted since I took off not far from her residential house. I've learned to stay further away from people while flying since, which the rules dictate anyway.
- loeg 3y agoI've been annoyed by drones lots of times and never talked to the operators. It's not because I didn't notice.
- bragr 3y agoPerhaps but I fly my Mini 2 regularly, and people have a hard time finding it in the sky even when I point it out to them at 100ft. At 200ft it might as well not exist. They are so small and light, they just don't put out the dBs like bigger drones.
- trust_bt_verify 3y agoBeing able to spot a small white object in the sky and hearing it are very different things. I put drone operators on the same level as those who hike with speakers blaring. No one is being hurt, no laws being broken. Just inconsiderate considering a large part of the experience for most in nature is the serenity.
- Cannabat 3y agoThe mini is undetectable over 100ft or so. other drones will interrupt the peace, but this one is far less likely to.
- IshKebab 3y agoNah they definitely aren't as bad. People using speakers in public are actively choosing to annoy people when they could have used headphones. There's no headphone equivalent for drones. Drones are also way way less common than shitty music players.
- ryantgtg 3y agoAlmost everyone I encounter who is carrying a speaker is not hiking by themselves. That is why they are not wearing headphones.
- ashton314 3y agoPeople who hike with speakers blaring are a strange breed that I’m likely to never understand. Like, why listen to music in the first place while hiking? I’m out here in the woods to get as far away from civilization as I can. I don’t need $latest_popstar dragging me back.
- jbm 3y agoI've never done this, but if I was trying to be charitable; in bear country, I assume making noise to avoid startling the animals is best practice.
- trust_bt_verify 3y agoI have worn a bear bell on my backpack when I’m far out but that’s a bit different than a speaker as you could imagine.
- cawlin 3y ago
- cush 3y agoSo what you’re saying is we just need a way to make the takeoff and landing quiet. Slingshot…?
- ben7799 3y agoIt's a question of what you got annoyed by, the point was a 100mph home built FPV drone is dramatically louder, and the way they get flown makes a lot more noise. I've been annoyed and not talked to people too, but it was never the noise, it was blatant violation of the law flying over crowds, etc..
- Foivos 3y agoI have noticed that it really depends on the wind direction. If the wind blows from the drone towards the people, you could hear it at 50 meters. Plus, when there is a lot of wind it makes much more noise in its struggle to fight it. Otherwise, unless it is directly next to you, you can hardly hear anything. My biggest crowd are children and pets. They always seem to be amused by the drone.
- photonbeam 3y agoLots of people avoid confrontation
- mitthrowaway2 3y agoDefinitely this. This summer a guy was flying a drone over a popular park area where lots of people were swimming in the river; it was extremely annoying. I'm pretty sure the drone was above the legal weight limit too, and as I have a UAV license, I'm well aware that it's illegal to operate a drone directly above other people. I spotted the guy with the drone controls but decided not to talk to him about it, because I couldn't be certain that someone as inconsiderate as that wouldn't necessarily react violently.
- nicbou 3y agoThere's the "if you're breaking this social convention, I'm not willing to figure out how many others you'll break" problem.
- okdood64 3y agoI like this one. Thanks.
- andersrs 3y agoOf course! Only drone owners have working ears. Could it be that everyone notices but they just don't want to speak with some rude drone dude.