With Hong Kong’s colourful drone shows becoming an attraction for tourists, operators have said the city can fly high by staging performances with more than 9,000 of them, displaying fireworks and laser lights, and using more venues to boost the economy.
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Drone providers also expressed hope that the government would draw on their experience and relax laws to allow the budding industry to fully exploit technological capabilities, as the first batch of pilot drone projects were recently selected to assist authorities in formulating low-altitude flying policies.
Tiffany Wong, general manager of drone show provider OWOWWW Creative, told the Post last week that, through their testing exercise, it hoped to show the government that Hong Kong was capable of achieving many things with drones.
“Our task is to gather different safety factors for different types and numbers of drones under different climates, such as wind speeds or ionospheric disturbances, that could significantly impact positional signal reception,” she said.
“For example, at present drones cannot be flown above 90 metres [295 feet]. We are now testing this limit and examining the effect of flying higher than this level to give reference to the government and the public.
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“Our ambition, among others, is also to showcase that Hong Kong can stage a show of over 9,000 drones. Our team has achieved this record on the mainland so we hope that our testing exercise can show the city is capable of exceeding this scale.”