VTOL Parcel delivery

[NinOz]

Today the local "drone" delivery VTOL aircraft have been very busy.  House full of young chaps 3 doors up has had at least 4 deliveries this afternoon, looks like food containers slung beneath the VTOLs.  Plenty of other flights heading west over our house with little parcels, returning with empty winches and a bit of cable hanging down.  Sounds like swarms of angry bees going back and forth.
Anyone else under a delivery flight path?

https://wing.com/en_au/australia/logan/

[emjaybee]

Wanna buy a shotgun?

[zwilnik]

Nothing a few helium balloons and a couple of hundred metres of fishing line won't solve. They should be maintaining a safe minimum altitude over residential areas.

[edwin_m]

But a safe minimum altitude means it hits the ground that much harder if something goes wrong.  See this mishap to a Network Rail drone survey, which could have been fatal if someone had been underneath: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/aaib-report-dji-phantom-4-rtk-uas-lost-power-and-dropped-to-the-ground-newtongrange-midlothian

[zwilnik]

But a safe minimum altitude means it hits the ground that much harder if something goes wrong.  See this mishap to a Network Rail drone survey, which could have been fatal if someone had been underneath: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/aaib-report-dji-phantom-4-rtk-uas-lost-power-and-dropped-to-the-ground-newtongrange-midlothian

All the more reason that heavy aircraft with no failsafe recovery options (like gliding, autorotate or parachutes) shouldn't be flying over residential areas.

[RailGooner]

IMHO it's grossly irresponsible, if not criminal, of your gov to allow this! Advocates of these services claim them to be an enviromental and economical necessity as they will reduce road traffic volumes. Lower traffic volumes = reduced emmisions (enviro tick) and more capacity for economic growth without building new roads (economic tick and a blind eye to the eco consequences).

[Railwaygun]

But a safe minimum altitude means it hits the ground that much harder if something goes wrong.  See this mishap to a Network Rail drone survey, which could have been fatal if someone had been underneath: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/aaib-report-dji-phantom-4-rtk-uas-lost-power-and-dropped-to-the-ground-newtongrange-midlothian

All the more reason that heavy aircraft with no failsafe recovery options (like gliding, autorotate or parachutes) shouldn't be flying over residential areas.

You obviously don't live near the Heathrow flightpath!!

[zwilnik]

But a safe minimum altitude means it hits the ground that much harder if something goes wrong.  See this mishap to a Network Rail drone survey, which could have been fatal if someone had been underneath: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/aaib-report-dji-phantom-4-rtk-uas-lost-power-and-dropped-to-the-ground-newtongrange-midlothian

All the more reason that heavy aircraft with no failsafe recovery options (like gliding, autorotate or parachutes) shouldn't be flying over residential areas.

You obviously don't live near the Heathrow flightpath!!

Everything that flies in and out of Heathrow has the ability to glide or autorotate enough to at least try and avoid ground casualties (and the decision making ability to attempt it).

[LASteve]

Wanna buy a shotgun?

We're generally quite patient and tolerant people, but if that started happening around here then the firearms would probably be deployed. And for a takeaway? Enjoy your McDonald's with lead shot and fragments of drone. 

[edwin_m]

Also difficult to see how drone deliveries will work anywhere other than where every house has a drive or garden to land in. 

[NinOz]

We're generally quite patient and tolerant people, but if that started happening around here then the firearms would probably be deployed. And for a takeaway? Enjoy your McDonald's with lead shot and fragments of drone. 

Weell, we must be much more patient and tolerant lot as I haven't heard a negative peep about the aircraft, several articles in press were/are all positive and they are doing plenty of business based on the number of little planes I see and hear traveling overhead.  Don't make much noise and travel at about 100' or less as per CASA requirements.
Sure they could crash but so can cars, bicycles etc which do so quite regularly.  However they only weigh a few kilos and you would have to be pretty unlucky to get hit by one. (I have several quad copters myself so know the habits of the little bleeders).
One guy on RC forum said "Skeet shooting with prizes".
Much more interested in the odd helicopter hovering about the suburb at night with no running lights  , can be heard but not seen, basically invisible.  Been around at least twice in the past month.

Break out a gun around here and you wouldn't like the consequences.