robw56 wrote:

Vick wrote:The drones at Beale have a 130' wingspan and fly considerably higher than that

Lol I was just about to say the same thing and post a picture of a Global Hawk..... Justin, I'm surprised you thought that was a quad copter!

180Marty wrote:A drone just crashed on the White House grounds according to the news this morning. Maybe something good will come of it.

182 STOL driver wrote:

180Marty wrote:A drone just crashed on the White House grounds according to the news this morning. Maybe something good will come of it.

Little green men came out and ask directions to nobama -they want to negigiate a release of the oppressed

mtv wrote:Same thing may have been said about the numb-nuts who thought it was cute to point lasers at airplanes. I'm betting a couple of serious violations, followed by either jail time or huge fines will get someone's attention. Unfortunately, right now, there's no enforcement to speak of.

What that means is that we're creating an industry. And, anyone familiar with law enforcement can tell you that the worst scenario you can come up with is to permit an activity for a period of time, then pass a law against it, and hand it over to the enforcement folks to "fix". That's exactly where we're going with this.

The trigger will be a major accident, with hundreds killed, I fear, by a collision with a "UAS".

But, the problem is, there are a LOT more folks interested in operating "UAS" now than there are interested in operating airplanes. Frankly, it would be pretty easy to simply ground all the "non essential" airplanes (like us) and figure out how to separate airliners from drones.

That may well be the "ultimate solution". After all, we wouldn't want those Europeans to get ahead of us with this new technology......and who gives a shit about Cessnas and Pipers anyway?

MTV

Av8r3400 wrote:In the very near future, there will be a loss of life accident due to one of these cursed things.

My only hope is the resultant multi million (billion?) dollar lawsuit brings the due negative attention to these flying murders, hopefully bringing about their ban.

A1Skinner wrote:FPV cameras allow seeing straight ahead. I'd like to think most pilots are looking a lot more then just straight ahead. A lot of these UAVs can also change direction very quickly, making FPV somewhat useless.

Coyote Ugly wrote:

A1Skinner wrote:FPV cameras allow seeing straight ahead. I'd like to think most pilots are looking a lot more then just straight ahead. A lot of these UAVs can also change direction very quickly, making FPV somewhat useless.

Ha... And there are a bunch of pilots that are so busy looking at their fancy glass panels, they hardly look outside at all.. ha. . Which is worse?

Av8r3400 wrote:In the very near future, there will be a loss of life accident due to one of these cursed things.

My only hope is the resultant multi million (billion?) dollar lawsuit brings the due negative attention to these flying murders, hopefully bringing about their ban.