First and last toy grade quadcopter flight.

With the density of residences around TKI and ADS, it's just a matter of time.
 
We're good. He can't hit us "full scale" aircraft if he's registered.
 
So what happened? The winds take it downwind and the "pilot" could not bring it back upwind?

If it was that windy, it was lost as soon as he got above tree line and did not get it lower.
 
I'm not too worried about them until they get over 5lbs. and made out of titanium.

Heck, we dodge big birds all the time, drones seem kinda the same or less harmful compared.

Now watch me have to eat my words and a drone! :lol:
 
txflyer said:
I'm not too worried about them until they get over 5lbs. and made out of titanium.

Heck, we dodge big birds all the time, drones seem kinda the same or less harmful compared.

Now watch me have to eat my words and a drone! :lol:
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A lot of them already are over 5 pounds. Some of them have batteries that weigh more than that. If someone really wanted to be malicious there are ways to virtually ensure a hit.
 
Maybe they'll kill a fighter or C-130 on a low-level route, down at 300 AGL.
 
wsuffa said:
A lot of them already are over 5 pounds. Some of them have batteries that weigh more than that. If someone really wanted to be malicious there are ways to virtually ensure a hit.
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Fortunately most of the cheap ones are only a few ounces
 
BillTIZ said:
So what happened? The winds take it downwind and the "pilot" could not bring it back upwind?

If it was that windy, it was lost as soon as he got above tree line and did not get it lower.
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I was walking in the park last week, surface winds were not strong, but low clouds were whipping by. I saw father and son with a model rocket, and just as I tried to yell at them about the wind, WHOOOOOSH, up it went. The chute opened and the winds wisked it rapidly towards an active railway where a passing freight ground it to bits. "Ground" people just don't think of things like winds aloft.
 
Lol, bye bye drone.

Not that concerned about drones BTW, nor am I scared of terrorists, or any of the other crap the media and our government want us to obsess over.
 
Velocity173 said:
I'd say a helicopter would be the greatest chance of hitting it at 300 ft.
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I think helo pilots might/might look at a chart, know a low-level route was nearby. The drone-toy guys might/might know to avoid airport areas, and not much else.
 
Sundancer said:
I think helo pilots might/might look at a chart, know a low-level route was nearby. The drone-toy guys might/might know to avoid airport areas, and not much else.
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I was referring to the helo hitting a drone at that altitude, not a helo hitting an aircraft on an MTR. But yeah, I would think they (drone) would have knowledge of local airports and not much else. My RC aircraft provide little in the form of rules in the instructions.
 
"Flying a drone around manned aircraft is ILLEGAL and DANGEROUS"
"www.faa.gov/uas = www.KnowBeforeYouFly.org"

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Have some friends that bought a quad copter for their son. The went out in the backyard to try it out. It's history, out in the woods somewhere.
 
James331 said:
Lol, bye bye drone.

Not that concerned about drones BTW, nor am I scared of terrorists, or any of the other crap the media and our government want us to obsess over.
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No joke.

I was just reading the headlines about ISIS fighters putting up heavy resistance in Ramadi and couldn't help but think guys in pajamas with AK's and maybe a ratty old truck with a machine gun attached to it ... that's heavy resistance?

We're not fighting a mechanized army and they make it sound like an impossible feat to kick their ass. Sensationalism in the news every day. :nonod:
 
txflyer said:
I'm not too worried about them until they get over 5lbs. and made out of titanium.

Heck, we dodge big birds all the time, drones seem kinda the same or less harmful compared.

Now watch me have to eat my words and a drone! :lol:
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Yea! But! Birds can THINK and they don't want to get hit either!
A bird's prospective to a plane is direct - - They Tuck & Roll. A quadcopter <-- Not a drone! Only obama and the media call it a drone! SENSATIONALISM ya know! And it's ground based pilot are too STUPID to and too slow realize the problem they are creating.

5 Lbs HA! Ever see what a sparrow can do to a leading edge of a wing? 5 Lbs will bend a prop! And the results will be an engine departing from a plane. Very Heavy Vibration ya know.

I love quadcopters - It's the pilots I'm scared of.

Barry
 
That looks like junk. If it was a good one it would have return home with a flick of a switch like mine. Mine is 4.3lb without GoPro attached and battery installed.
 

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wsuffa said:
A lot of them already are over 5 pounds. Some of them have batteries that weigh more than that. If someone really wanted to be malicious there are ways to virtually ensure a hit.
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What is that, like a 30ah battery?
 
James331 said:
Lol, bye bye drone.

Not that concerned about drones BTW, nor am I scared of terrorists, or any of the other crap the media and our government want us to obsess over.
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This was my thought exactly. Flew commercial out of Denver home over the holiday. The "security" was ridiculous security theater at it's best when 99.99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999...∞ of people who travel are not terrorists yet we spend piles of money and jump through all these hoops over manufactured fear. :mad2:
 
Lots of "infant mortality" with these things. A neighbor kid knocked on the door to ask if he could look in our back yard for his run away RC "helicopter" Christmas present. Didn't find it. It is probably in the lake. At least, it is nice to have a neighbor kid polite enough to ask permission.
 
txflyer said:
No joke.

I was just reading the headlines about ISIS fighters putting up heavy resistance in Ramadi and couldn't help but think guys in pajamas with AK's and maybe a ratty old truck with a machine gun attached to it ... that's heavy resistance?

We're not fighting a mechanized army and they make it sound like an impossible feat to kick their ass. Sensationalism in the news every day. :nonod:
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Why does that sound familiar? And we didn't kick their arses either.
 
wsuffa said:
A lot of them already are over 5 pounds. Some of them have batteries that weigh more than that. If someone really wanted to be malicious there are ways to virtually ensure a hit.
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Yes, but the ones over 5lbs are very expensive and definitely not toy grade drones like the ones that are proliferating.
 
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