Drones to fly without spotters on the ground monitoring route and skies for other aircraft
Soon the sky will be full of these fuckers. I like the idea of them (edit: as in the utility of them), but can you imagine? Hundreds of them just buzzing around, constantly.
Is it really that different to the vrooming of cars that we have grown accustomed to?
Right? Cars are orders of magnitude louder, right in our face and constantly pump out reeking fumes. If these things reduce the amount of trucks on the road it would be a big win.
to be fair, at the height these things will be flying, you won’t hear them on most days.
My mini drone can be heard from 200 feet up easily if you are underneath it. If its 100 or lower everyone around can hear it. 400feet is the maximum allowed height.
That must be one crazy loud drone.
All the ones I fly, including others are practically silent past 100ft…
What RPM/blade diameter is your mini-drone? the smaller ones are louder because of the higher RPM’s
Mini 3 pro. Thats probably true about the rpm i have no idea tho
Nothing spurs innovation like workers getting a contract that allows them to not starve.
I didn’t see mention of what allowable ceiling of flight this is for, still below 400 feet? I would expect there will be regular flight paths established to specific urgent delivery customers (like hospitals) rather than just any package.
I would imagine it’s still below 400ft to minimize the chance of interfering with manned aircraft. I read through a handful of articles though and none mentioned it.
A lot of people posting that the threat of theft or interference will put a halt to drone delivery, but I wonder if that will really be a problem when looking at the the return on investment. A lot of people have said similar things about self service checkouts but industry keeps pushing on.
The cost of drone delivery will shrink dramatically over time (labour and energy being the two big ones) especially if you compare it to equivalent service levels (e.g. same day delivery) so much so that companies would likely easily absorb the costs - if it all works of course.
