Perhaps but I fly my Mini 2 regularly, and people have a hard time finding it in the sky even when I point it out to them at 100ft. At 200ft it might as well not exist. They are so small and light, they just don't put out the dBs like bigger drones.
Being able to spot a small white object in the sky and hearing it are very different things.
I put drone operators on the same level as those who hike with speakers blaring. No one is being hurt, no laws being broken. Just inconsiderate considering a large part of the experience for most in nature is the serenity.
People who hike with speakers blaring are a strange breed that I’m likely to never understand.
Like, why listen to music in the first place while hiking? I’m out here in the woods to get as far away from civilization as I can. I don’t need $latest_popstar dragging me back.
I use headphones to listen to music or audio books while hiking, walking or exercising. I enjoy it, and also a useful tool to stop mental self-talk while being able to enjoy the surrounds.
But playing music over speakers that would interrupt the tranquillity of other people trying to enjoy the quiet and space is very not cool.
Nah they definitely aren't as bad. People using speakers in public are actively choosing to annoy people when they could have used headphones. There's no headphone equivalent for drones.
Drones are also way way less common than shitty music players.
It's a question of what you got annoyed by, the point was a 100mph home built FPV drone is dramatically louder, and the way they get flown makes a lot more noise.
I've been annoyed and not talked to people too, but it was never the noise, it was blatant violation of the law flying over crowds, etc..
