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For the Love of Radio Controlled Aircraft in the US, New Rules Possible.
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beanflying:
Not the USA I know but I saw tonight on public free to air TV a CASA (Aussie FAA equivelent) this add below. Seems they have just launched a major awareness campaign  :-+ Plenty more here at this link https://www.youtube.com/user/CASABriefing/videos

Hope the FAA takes a look at this as an option rather than punitive measures.

james_s:

--- Quote from: nigelwright7557 on March 08, 2020, 06:48:12 am ---This could be on the back of the "drone" syndrome ?
In the UK airports have been closed due to illegal drone activity near them.

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Was it ever even confirmed to be true? I recall several cases somewhere of alleged drone sightings by pilots, even some who claimed they spotted them at high altitudes where I find it extremely unlikely that any kind of consumer drone is going to manage to go. I'm also highly skeptical of the ability for a human pilot to spot one as they cruise along at several hundred mph. I've heard it said that drone sightings are going to replace UFO sightings, the mind is a strange thing and sometimes people see what they want to see. Pilots have reported seeing unidentified objects in the sky for as long as there have been pilots.
donotdespisethesnake:

--- Quote from: james_s on March 08, 2020, 08:02:07 pm ---Pilots have reported seeing unidentified objects in the sky for as long as there have been pilots.

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It was a pilot, Kenneth Arnold, who mistook a flight of birds for some "advanced military craft". He described their flight pattern as "like saucers skipping over water". The local paper printed the headline "Supersonic Flying Saucers Sighted by Idaho Pilot" and thus was created the modern "UFO" phenomenon.

I'm a little skeptical that the "lights in the sky" around UK airports were really drones. Maybe some were. Some eye witnesses reported seeing lights near the airport - they were on tower cranes a mile away.

The nature of the "UFO flap" is that once people have the idea in their head, they see what they are thinking. A light in the sky conveys the least amount of visual information of the source as it is possible to get - any less and you wouldn't detect it at all. Size, distance, shape can be impossible to determine. Many times people have reported The Moon as a UFO, I mean come on!
LaserSteve:
I note several  obvious EEVBLOGGERs  commented. Thank You, Especially the one from Germany,  that was touching and practical.

Next set of comment review down the road,   is  OOP , or Operations Over People, I'll update the thread as often as possible.

I hate drones, I'll be honest, I find them annoying.  However  my local Microcenter just had a closeout or loss lead sale  on one model for 20$, NO GPS, which is fine with me, and it flies beautifully. Consider that purchase last week,  a symbolic protest.   Under 250 grams...  I'll need to paint it with some markings, as it is symmetrical, uniformly colored, and no nav LEDs  for orientation, which drives me nuts, as I'm used to watching wings.  Its time to bolt on some LEDs, too.  As the TX is not programmable, I'll have to relearn what stick does what.  :-BROKE 
 I at least want to understand what the other flyers  want so as to reach compromise and understanding.  Steve
     
CatalinaWOW:

--- Quote from: donotdespisethesnake on March 08, 2020, 10:32:33 pm ---
--- Quote from: james_s on March 08, 2020, 08:02:07 pm ---Pilots have reported seeing unidentified objects in the sky for as long as there have been pilots.

--- End quote ---

It was a pilot, Kenneth Arnold, who mistook a flight of birds for some "advanced military craft". He described their flight pattern as "like saucers skipping over water". The local paper printed the headline "Supersonic Flying Saucers Sighted by Idaho Pilot" and thus was created the modern "UFO" phenomenon.

I'm a little skeptical that the "lights in the sky" around UK airports were really drones. Maybe some were. Some eye witnesses reported seeing lights near the airport - they were on tower cranes a mile away.

The nature of the "UFO flap" is that once people have the idea in their head, they see what they are thinking. A light in the sky conveys the least amount of visual information of the source as it is possible to get - any less and you wouldn't detect it at all. Size, distance, shape can be impossible to determine. Many times people have reported The Moon as a UFO, I mean come on!

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I have seen quite a few "UFOs".  I sure didn't know what they were.  None has convinced me that it was worth revealing my ignorance by sharing my sightings.  Some became identified FOs after further observation or thought and research.  One of the most interesting was a night viewing of a light pattern that went across the sky silently.  The angular rate was higher than satellite transits, but there was no noise.  I now believe that it was a high altitude (15-20 km) SR-71 transit, based on speed, my location and other cues.  Others became identified non-flying objects (spots on a windshield, reflections and such.)  There remain several in the unidentified category, but I am pretty sure they aren't alien spacecraft, or even crazy secret terrestrial aircraft.  If you watch the sky much you see a lot of strange things.

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