by Dave McElderry » Fri Aug 25, 2017 2:29 pm
I can make an analogy here that maybe you'll find applicable. I do it to explain that I understand your dilemma, not as a fellow drone pilot but from another point of view.
Although I no longer ride, I've been a motorcyclist all of my adult life. In my younger riding years I did some things that I'm not particularly proud of. But I lived to tell the tale and as I matured I learned that I wanted to be a responsible rider and realized that the way others viewed my riding reflected on the motorcycling sport in general. For 35 years I rode quiet machines in a style that was considerate of all road traffic and nearly always within the law (okay, sometimes I rode a little over the speed limit, but never recklessly). In that time I've seen, and been affected by, a lot of motorcyclists who for whatever personal reasons didn't care about the image they projected. Usually I had to shake my head and hope that they would someday realize how negatively they affect our sport. When laws are passed banning motorcycles from particular venues it almost always has to do not with people like me, but with "those other guys." But in the end all motorcyclists are affected. If some drone pilots don't choose to police themselves (as you've chosen to do, Sidd) then others will police all of them, good and bad alike.
Be yourself; everyone else is taken.
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