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What's the range on these FPV set ups?
In good conditions, 1-2 miles has been reported.
If your approach is going well, you won't be overhead Richmond park when landing to the west at LHR, your track will be at least half a mile to the north of the park depending on which runway is in use for landing.
The aircraft will be roughly 2300 feet above the ground.
[quote=gwaelod ]Some people fit lithium batteries onto birds so the can be tracked by GPS when the migrate.
How big are those batteries?
[quote=ghostlymachine ]Does it really matter if it's out of sight.
Only from a legal perspective, but then I don't thing the drone flyers causing the issues are all that bothered about such laws.
I have my Dji Phanton charging now, will get a first flight later today. Don't intend to go as high as a plane
I have my Dji Phanton charging now, will get a first flight later today. Don't intend to go as high as a plane
Good luck. Set the max height to something like 50m, if your eyes are like mine you'll lose sight of it above 100m anyway.
Still timidly flying in beginner mode. Love it so far.
How many battery's do you use Richmars ?
Only got the one at the moment, I'm sure I'll got another when the weather warms up.
It was "unlikely" that a drone did hit the plane:
[url= http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-36159117 ]http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-36159117[/url]
If they can't even tell after several days, then I am guessing that the story has been somewhat hyped.
Plane needs a helmet cam. Then we can have angry pilots on youtube complaining about not enough space being left.
Not only was that one most probably not a drone, several others listed at 2000-2800ft, IME, probably wouldn't be a drone either, even if still listed as possibly a drone.
Certainly won't be the clueless "buying a toy drone" crowd.
Interesting article on HackADay that looks at other reported "drone" near misses and agree with you Andy:
http://hackaday.com/2016/05/02/debunking-the-drone-versus-plane-hysteria/
Interesting article.
Tri-rotors certainly exist, and indeed we were trying to get one working last August in Scotland. Basically a royal PITA, and about the only guy I know that got one working well is Swedish. So one at 1500ft? hahaha.
Something 2m in length is not going to be a "drone". It could feasibly be a model rocket. I have a store room full of such things, and 2000ft-4000ft is exactly where they might be. But not at that distance from Stansted.
I don't have historical records of our Notam info, but that reported incident would have been on the day we would have been launching near Twycross Zoo, so actually not too far from BHX. And I like to think that "we" know most high power rocketeers in the UK.
Having flown literally hundreds of rockets to those sort of altitudes, often needing other people to help keep an eye on it, I don't believe for one minute that anyone could fly a drone at that altitude. Definitely not line of sight, and most probably not FPV either. And most definitely, not any "toy" drone that would have been unwrapped on Xmas morning.
All kinds of strange wind effects at those altitudes too.
Don't have any historical launch info for high altitude balloons either. But the one site we (well acquaintances of mine) would use, would typically put them at something insane like 80,000ft by the time the overfly stansted. (Got an ace go-pro pic of that somewhere).