riverrock wrote:Drones have been in hundreds of Airproxes and a few collisions, its just that these are making headlines due to the disruption. They are small, hard to track down and easily hidden. There are also hundreds of potential targets.
muffin wrote:I bet this situation would not continue for very long in N Korea or Russia for that matter.
muffin wrote:I bet this situation would not continue for very long in N Korea or Russia for that matter.
riverrock wrote:Reports are that a BBC camera man who uses drones as part of his work (so is probably as much of an expert as there is) watched it for 4 to 5 minutes and some police officers also saw it, so better sightings of this one than the Gatwick mysterious one(s).
Feels like a copy cat.
chevvron wrote:I'm only an ex controller with 34 years experience of looking at this sort of thing so who am I to say?
chevvron wrote:riverrock wrote:Reports are that a BBC camera man who uses drones as part of his work (so is probably as much of an expert as there is) watched it for 4 to 5 minutes and some police officers also saw it, so better sightings of this one than the Gatwick mysterious one(s).
Feels like a copy cat.
The shot I saw on tv news showed what looked to me like a 'normal' aircraft showing strobes and red/green/white lights some distance away and probably about 10,000ft.
But then I'm only an ex controller with 34 years experience of looking at this sort of thing so who am I to say?
Crash one wrote:I’m convinced that if the target was identified and close enough it doesn’t need a military weapon with 50cal armour piercing rounds at 6000 rounds a minute being sprayed over London to knock a drone out of the sky.