In the couple of years I worked for a company with their own helicopter I was under the impression that as long as we had the landowners permission we could land there. Although that was in the 90's so legislation may have changed. We certainly landed in gardens and industrial estates.
More than 20 minutes flying on a honda vision is pretty impressiveThey look fun but at over £100k a niche toy for some as already said. With 20 mins flying time I think ill hang onto my Honda Vision for now.
You need a field to land in. And if you've only got 20 mins of flight time (I bet it's a lot less of you go up to 1500ft), then you might only be able to make 10 minute hops because you need to be able to get back if you aren't able to land. So the effective travel range is only a few miles. It's nothing more than a toy. And will remain so into until it effectively becomes a helicopter.
Like their tanks in WW2. 4 reverse gears and 1 forward gear in case they are attacked from behindPrices start at $128k so not too bad really, made in Italy and comes with a ballistic parachute just in case
More than 20 minutes flying on a honda vision is pretty impressive
I agree Its usefullness would be limited but was responding to the question whether you could fly it on private land.
Yes. So about as useful as a private escooter.
But you would still need a license to fly it and it would be registered with the CAA and have a certificate of airworthiness etc etc. So with one of the people carrying drones you would need the landowners permission but also everything else unless there's some sort of exemption. There are also rules about how close you are allowed to fly above the ground and how close to people etc It's pretty highly regulated ( for good reason)
Height in general is safer than closer to the ground especially if you need to deploy the ballistic parachute. I'd much sooner have a problem at 1500 feet than 200 feet. As others have said for most an expensive toy . The difference between this and a helicopter is that if you get an engine failure in a helicopter you can use energy from descending to power the blades in autorotation then use that energy to land with one of these it's going to come down like a brick.
I'm sure they'll find a tax of some sort to apply.
It's got twin motors and rotors on each arm. This is generally done on drones to improve redundancy. You can lose a motor or rotor on a single arm and only suffer decreased performance. I doubt it's got enough power to cope with the loss of two though, and definitely not if they're both on the same arm.
It would be interesting to know whether when loaded there's sufficient lift available to allow for the loss of any rotor and still have some control.
If you're in the middle of an energetic manoeuvre and you lost a rotor, you might well be screwed. But if you're just cruising, I think you'd be ok. It's only acceleration that heavily loads the props with drone flight. Lots of the direction changes on quadcopter type designs are from altering the torque on opposing pairs. I'd hope they've engineered enough redundancy to allow you to continue on at a reduced speed with limits on things like decent speed. And made the flight controller smart enough to manage the change of balance.
Will that be when we are all working 3 hours a day 2 days a week...BUSBYin ten years time there'll be bleedin' hundreds of them hovering around Benidorm.
, so maybe if I'm a very good boy..... 
How many Wales's in a Belgium?
about 1.5
As they always say if it doesn't work use the reserve if that doesn't open take it back for a refund!Malfunction, what could possibly go wrong?
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