Originally Posted by
HoundDog
January is just 7 days after christmas U think maybe that might just have something to do with it. Be sides I haven't seen any big campaign from the feds News media Hobby Shops HK or anyone who sells Drones to educate the populace that flying in the vicinity of airports at altitudes that will interfere with man carrying aircraft on landing or take off.
Could well be true, in which case that increase could also represent the increase in sales we've heard about...more of them out there so more of them being seen by manned aircraft. We haven't a full year's data yet, so that's the only month over month comparison. I suspect Procia's comment below is correct, that the sightings in this report may be lower overall. The first report covered the period 13 Nov 2014 - 20 Aug 2015 (280 days), while the most recent one covered 21 Aug 2015 - 31 Jan 2016 (163 days). The shorter period and bias toward fall and colder months could also explain the numbers