Drones Vs. Drones

RE: Drones Vs. Drones

PEarle — Tue, 09 Feb 2016 14:43:29 GMT

I think his point was that (from the article) "Drones were recently involved in four serious near misses at UK airports, the UK Air Proximity Board has said."

Source - the BBC

THe article goes on to add "..The near miss at Stansted saw a drone fly over the Boeing 737 by about 16ft, as the aircraft was at about 4,000ft during take-off.."

Assuming it is true (and I cant see why the BBC would bother to make it up) that would seem close enough to be worrying ....

RE: Drones Vs. Drones

PEarle — Mon, 08 Feb 2016 13:36:09 GMT

Perhaps this is the lo-tech answer

Police 'ponder eagles to tackle drones' - BBC News

RE: Drones Vs. Drones

Former Member — Mon, 08 Feb 2016 04:34:13 GMT

In the US it is a Federal Crime, a felony at that, to interfere with an aircraft. With the new regulations which have gotten so much press most people should now realize that "defending yourself" against a drone is very likely illegal and could result in several years in Federal Prison.

RE: Drones Vs. Drones

stevemann — Sun, 07 Feb 2016 16:45:53 GMT

In both cases both the hawk and the net-firing drone are targeting stationary drones simply hovering in place. Wow, big deal. anyone can hit the side of barn while standing next to it.

There is absolutely no factual evidence to support the fear and ignorance around small personal drones. There have been more than a million hours of flight of small drones, yet there is not one verifiable report of a drone crash in the US that resulted in a serious injury as defined by the NTSB* to someone not connected to the flight. Not one. It is a safety rate that all other segments of aviation would be jealous to have. There is also not one verifiable report of a collision between a small drone and a manned aircraft. Not one. When it happens, the aircraft crew is probably not going to be aware of it, and the drone pieces will be scattered over a square mile. An FAA executive speaking to a nervous audience of helicopter operators at HAI Heli-Expo in Orlando (March 2015) and said that while there's never been a reported contact between an sUAS and a civilian aircraft, the military has some experience in that regard. In all cases the aircraft was virtually unscathed while the UAS was "smashed to pieces."

Keep the risk of personal drones in perspective.

Today (if this is an average day in the USA):

1560 people will die from Cancer

268 people in US hospitals will die because of medical mistakes.

162 people will be wounded by firearms in the US.

117 Americans will die in an automobile accident.

98 people in the US will die from the flu.

53 people will kill themselves with a firearm.

46 children will suffer eye injuries.

37 will die from AIDS.

30 people will die in gun-related murders.

18 pilots will report a Laser Incident

3 General Aviation airplanes will crash in the US.

0 people will be seriously injured or killed by a small drone accident.*

Zero. Why are so many otherwise rational people so terrified of zero?

The panic, here, is completely out of any sort of proportion to reality.

* A band-aid is not a serious injury. CFR 49 §830.2 contains the definition of "Serious Injury" that the FAA and NTSB use in their aircraft and vehicular accident statistics. It is important to hold small UAS accidents to the same metric, otherwise comparisons are meaningless.

RE: Drones Vs. Drones

crjeder — Tue, 02 Feb 2016 14:22:53 GMT

Just found this:

[View:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HifO-ebmE1s:440:330]

RE: Drones Vs. Drones

Former Member — Tue, 26 Jan 2016 11:11:35 GMT

its awesome

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mcb1 — Tue, 26 Jan 2016 10:38:26 GMT

Excellent example of how the auto-failsafe-everything is not effective.

Hopefully the hawk was not harmed.

For anyone still not convinced, Mythbusters did an episode that simulated a drone strike to the neck of someone and concluded it was lethal. !!!!

Drone Decapitation High Speed | MythBusters | Discovery

Mark

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clem57 — Mon, 25 Jan 2016 20:05:55 GMT

So was the video a random act of attack? Very interesting![View:/resized-image/__size/16x16/__key/commentfiles/f7d226abd59f475c9d224a79e3f0ec07-01c54d2c-75c1-4da2-b2a3-3abc9b53d3ae/contentimage_5F00_938.png:16:16]

Clem

RE: Drones Vs. Drones

DAB — Mon, 25 Jan 2016 19:50:57 GMT

I have been urging people to prepare their anti-drone defenses for several years.

I suspect that they will soon be a problem and public annoyance soon.

DAB