Episode 63 Dean Head Talks 1 5 Minutes with AOPA-China

当下无人机备受欢迎，许多发烧友买来当玩具玩，摄影爱好者也会用其来进行航拍。
但是，小小的无人机也是航空器，基本的航空知识和航空安全不容忽视。而现实是许多无人机飞手其实并不了解基本的航空原理和航空法规。无人机是缩小版的航空器，操作不当，可能会伤人伤己。
过去航拍，专业摄影师要在直升机或者固定翼小飞机上，系好安全带，探出身去，捕捉珍贵的画面。现在有了无人机，似乎安装一个摄像头，人人都可以成为航拍摄影师。其实不然，先进的拍摄工具同样需要专业的拍摄技能。请大家尊重航拍专业人士，专业安全使用无人机，拍出美丽的照片。
本期航空五分钟，我们非常高兴与中国AOPA的会员Dean Head一起聊聊这些话题。
Dean是一名飞行员，同时也在电影制作行业从事了39年，他呼吁无人机制造商能够给小无人机加装桨叶保护以减小意外出现时的伤害。点击音频，听听他的想法吧！
Hello, thanks for tuning in to 5 Minuteswith AOPA-China. This episode, we have our esteem guest here, Dean Head, aprofessional filmmaker and pilot, as well as one of AOPA-China members. He hasa say about drone safety.
 
Dean: The photographer friend of mine inHong Kong, we have a facebook group of professional photographers, cameramen,filmmakers, etc. He complained his new DJI drone crashed just a few feet fromlanding. When he described what he did, I realized his helicopter, his droneencountered LTE, the loss of tail-rotor effectiveness. It means when you turndownwind, if the conditions are exact and coincidental where the speed of thewind matches the speed of your machine, then your blades become ineffective andit just drops out of the sky and crashes. That’s what it happened. So I had tosend him the Wikipedia link to explain it. These drones are real machines, nottoys. They can kill you or take your eye out.
 
Claire: I’ve just changed my department. Wewere receiving pictures of people getting hurt by drones, bloody andhorrifying. People get to know that’s not only a fancy thing, that’s also adangerous thing.
 
Dean: I guess you can say it anunderstandable mentality that it’s a toy, so a dad will run out and buy it forhis 7-year-old son. And only after the accident, they realize oh my god this isactually a real machine only miniaturized. I’ve been always worried aboutchildren’s eyes as well as adults’. I am always a good believer and promoter ofdrone manufactures putting blade guards on the rotors. I contacted my friend, avery famous Hollywood helicopter pilot and he does most areas of the bigblockbuster movies. And I asked him “Do you think the guards will affect theaerodynamics negatively?” And he said “The degree that it faces is negligible,it may take one or two minutes of your flight time.” So manufactures should goand help protect people.
I read about a report in Central Park inNew York. Someone was flying a new DJI drone about six years ago. Someone waswalking past “ Oh, that’s interesting”. The person with the control box said”yes, would you like to have a go”, and gave him the control box. And it flew,hitting him in the head and killed him. I read it but I forget where, I had toGoogle to find it. I don’t think it’s a wild tale, I think it’s actuallyhappened. It’s real.
 
Claire: I don’t think it’s a hand-overthing. It’s like I’m piloting an airplane and say “Would you like to have a try”to a passenger? How come?
 
Dean: With me being a filmmaker, I’ve beendoing it for 39 years. I started when I was 16 and we didn’t have gimbal orgyro back then for the public. So I would put a body harness on when I didhelicopter aerials, climbed outside and stand on the skid and do aerials. Andlater gimbal came. So when you had that training, you understand how to movethe camera and when(what time of the day) e