Recently, there has been an increase in RC flying in Malaysia. Several are simply hobbyists while some are commercial purposes.

It's important to highlight the efficient uses of these unmanned aerial vehicles/systems/platforms popularly known as drones.

* Search and Rescue
* Aerial Cinematography and Photography
* Remote observation of towers, bridges, masts (hard or costly to reach places for maintenance)
* Aerial Video Coverage of Sporting Events, Protests, human movements
* Tactical Surveillance (help law enforcement is data acquisition)
* GIS survey and Mapping
* Accident Investigation
* ETC.....

Let us not be confused by the US military drones being used in combat theaters. We are more interested in discussing about any unmanned aerial system that could be used to improve civilian lives, and services.

This thread is also open for comments and discussion on safe usage and privacy issues in regards to these machines.

I guess so though my purpose was not to reintroduce the thread but to seek to create some kind of awareness that we all could actually band together to form a more vibrant community of pilots, flyers, controllers, (whatever name one chooses), etc.

The community could then grow and mature in ways that beat simple cyber-hangouts such as these. Not that i don't like it.

I do understand that many of us have our different fly groups and areas where each prefers to fly but imagine if most of us could actually come together and fly; like a RC festival or something. we could also be able to become a force for positive change in the minds of people about these unmanned aerial platforms and the immerse advantages they bring in a whole lot of sectors.

Wish i had seen this message on time. I would have grabbed my Phantom Quadcopters and headed over to Putrajaya

My very first quad-copter flight and video. Pardon my shaky decent guys. My apparent lack of piloting skill and the strong wind at high altitude contributed to the shaky vidz.

Equipment: Phantom FC40
Location: Kajang, Selangor



This post has been edited by uchvega: Mar 18 2014, 11:29 PM

That's a good price for a FC40. I usually sell them for RM2100 excluding the iPad.