how do you know when you are flying 400 feet high?
Originally Posted by
bradpaul
Got out my crystal ball...................... Asked about the future of RC aviation. Answer was:
80% drone/autonomous
19% ARF planes
1% all else
Hobby shops have disappeared and you buy online from Asia
Everything is electric as the "tree huggers" have got IC engines banned
Hoss has still not won a AMA election
Originally Posted by
crash99
Ok Guys lets go over it again. If you think all these commercial pilots cad ID a hex let go over the math ...... Again. The plane going 161mph on a landing, the slowest it can fly, a DJI hex is a visual pin dot in the air at 200 meters, so the Commercial pilot will see the hex for the max of 71ms. Ok that means if he sees the hex as soon as the human eye could see it.
a 400 size quad the time shrinks to 46ms. So please tell me who could tell if it's a quad, bird or a
balloon. Commercial Aircraft have onboard cameras pointing to the front windows. So far no videos
has been released. If there was then the FAA would have the needed smoking gun.
So get real guys! Use the common sense God gave you.
Crash99
These are excellent points. I think the FAA would have a hard time proving, beyond a reasonable doubt, that an airline pilot spotted a small model aircraft. Any law student (not to mention an experienced attorney) could easily discredit a pilot "witness" on the stand.
That said, if the NTSB manages to recover the remains of a quad from an aircraft turbine after it makes an emergency landing (or crashes,) the FAA and NTSB will easily create a public outcry against UAVs. The changes of a collision such as this are less than remote, but planes hit smaller birds all the time.