All right, so continuing on with laws and safety and all that sort of stuff, I want to get into some, you know, not fun, but nevertheless, serious safety concerns with your drone. A lot of people, especially new people who just bought a drone, still sort of think about it as a toy. And it certainly is fun. And I will not deny that I love drones. But it does have to be respected. Now, other pieces of technology like your phone, you can kind of consider it as a toy, but it's not exactly going to hurt someone with drones.

This can range from anything from like, you know, minor sort of cuts of your hand if the fast spinning blades catchy or something like that, all the way up to pretty major incidences where you know, perhaps flies into a person flies into this space where you get the really fast spinning blades flying into someone's eyes, that can cause some permanent long term damage. So drones are very fun. And they are great for a hobby and they great to sort of, obviously do travel photography with but you really do have to respect it. And just make sure that, you know, you don't sort of get complacent with it that you don't just, you know, ignore it or do this or get to your store, you do have to sort of remain quite vigilant and make sure that you're always being safe, not just for yourself, but for other people as well.

When you're flying it, it can be, you know, easy to get wrapped up in the span of going back and forth and all that sort of stuff, but it's very easy for experienced pilots to misjudge things or how close you are to someone or something or something like that. Maybe you don't see anything particularly dangerous. Maybe it's just a tree or something like that. And it's not the end of the world but then it falls out of the sky and hit someone Underneath the tree, so it can quickly very, very quickly turn from having a great time and having fun with your toy to really injuring someone. So always be careful and always be safe. So, obviously, if you're responsible piloting or flying fantastically, and you're always being very safe, you still do have to worry about other things in terms of safety.

Now, these drones, most of the drones that people have are consumer equipment type of things, they have one battery in them. They generally don't have redundancy, the things and the actual electronics and components inside them are usually cheap, you know, compared to business level sort of stuff. So what can actually happen is that you might be flying perfectly safely You know, you're doing your thing you've got your friend next to you, they're spotting you you're, you know, being very, very safe. You're not flying ridiculously or anything, but perhaps one of the things You know, circuits inside fails, perhaps a bird flies into it, perhaps one of the propellers fly or for the battery fails, or, you know, there are 1000 different things that can go wrong with these. And while they have pretty good records, at least the DJI ones do. They can and do fall out of the sky can be as simple as the software glitch or something like that.

Even the really big, you know, business level drones that DJI make, they still have instances of them falling out of the sky. And this is why a lot of countries have those types of laws where you're not allowed to fly over people in Orlando fly over causal properties and stuff like that. It's not just, you know, a privacy thing. It's also a safety thing, they realized that, you know, even if you're the perfect pilot, and you're not doing anything on site, your drone can still just fail, it can be faulty for whatever reason or get attacked by bird as I said, you know, it may sound sort of overly dramatic, but these these Things can kill people like, this is the sort of level of safety that we're talking about and why this is named a serious safety section of the course. Because, you know, this is a relatively small compact drone.

But even this weighs a reasonable amount. And if you were flying this not particularly high, say about 50 meters in the air, which is nowhere near how high this can go, this can go thousands and thousands of feet in the air, even at 50 meters in the air if this siloed and just fell out of the sky. Can you imagine what that would do with that actually fell into someone's face, the actual sort of energy that would be in that hitting a person in the face is I believe equal to about, you know, a very high level karate student punch. So if you're, you know, a black belt in whatever, and you punch someone as hard as you can in the face. That's the type of force that this drone this particular smoker would have landing on somebody. was on one.

So you can imagine what the bigger ones would be like, say the Phantom four pro which is even heavier than this. And that, you know, has even more pointy things on it and, you know, maybe the blade goes into your face personally, these are serious, serious concerns. And, you know, it's why a lot of countries have these rules that you're not allowed to fly with people you're not allowed to fly over cars or, you know, obviously airports as well but they know that you might be the most perfect pilot there is and never make a single mistake, which is not usually what happens I must say that even if you don't make a mistake, the actual hardware compile as well. So I usually like to recommend that even if the country's laws say that you can fly wherever you want, you know, you can fly over people five meters above their head or whatever you want to do.

Try and stay away from pretty much anything if the person the drone can stay on hold their head and do some serious serious damage. Even if it's an object, like a house or a car or something like that, can you imagine this slamming into your windshield while you're driving your car in the middle of, say, a traffic intersection or something like that, you know, sure you in the car and not gonna get hurt or anything like that, but it'll scare the crap out of you. And you'll probably crash your car, maybe into another one, maybe kill someone doing that it's, you know, it's just best to never fly over anything like a person or car or even building something. So I, as I said, it may sound like a bit of overkill stating these sorts of things. But it really really, really quickly can go from you having fun and there being no problem to serious, serious injury.

So these are the sorts of safety concerns and laws that I want you to be aware of, especially when you're in another country and you you may not know the lay of the land, you're in a foreign place. haven't flown there before you don't know the laws You don't know how windy it gets or something like that you don't know what the wildlife is like. You really need to be extra extra cautious