PeoplesElbow
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You were easily able to do it because you knew the size of what you was looking at also.
Drones Over NJ
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PeoplesElbow
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That's why we get reports of a black mountain lion on here every so often.
thurley42
HY;FR
Just the videos i've seen that appear to be flying way higher than the 400' and at the size they appear in the video they are much bigger than your local DJI clown....but how much bigger, not sure.
thurley42
HY;FR
nah im talking about other aircraft, but I get what you're saying......we all know how big a 172 is in comparison to a 130, etc, etc
glhs837
Power with Control
This looks to capture some of the videos. Not getting much out of that. Especially with how cell phones amplify incoming light, making it hard to judge how far away from each other the nav lights are. the you coffee guy confidently tosses our numbers like 10,000 feet. Pretty sure he doesn't that's two miles up and a 737 is the size of a pinky nail at that altitude and not easy to hear at all.
I will note that triangle one with the tree branches is maybe the most useful. If it were even more than a few hundred feet up, its lights would all be obscured by one branch at the same time.
I suspect what we are seeing here is what I would call large drones, the hexacopter types that filmmakers use to carry Red cameras.
PeoplesElbow
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Around 10k feet the air is thin enough that helicopters have a hard time hovering, so quadcopters might not even be able to go that high
One person not heard from in all of this is Transportation Secretary Mayor Pete. It is his ball park, but everything he is involved with has been useless.
I wonder if the proximity of the FAA Tech Center (Atlantic City) has some connection to the drone activity in NJ?
I wonder if the proximity of the FAA Tech Center (Atlantic City) has some connection to the drone activity in NJ?
Grumpy
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Pete ain't got no time for that, he's looking around for his next sham job.
WingsOfGold
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Why do they have anti collision strobes on?
glhs837
Power with Control
Why do they have anti collision strobes on?
They do until they don't. Evidently when you approach one with a helo, they darken ship. But you make a good point. Why ever have them on unless perhaps the panic was the point.
I was thinking that most LE helo's have FLIR or some other night vision equipment so tracking them when they go dark shouldn't be hard. Then I remembered my experience with night vision equipment. Trying to track something when the background is all lit up, as looking down towards the ground would be, would be difficult.
black dog
Free America
Let us know how that Federal Prison Time works out.
thurley42
HY;FR
The clowns won't be able to hit them anyway.....we did a test at Bragg back in the late 90s with a team of Rangers trying to shoot down a 12' wingspan UAS at 1k. Over a thousand rounds and 1 made it through a wing but the AV was fine. Not to mention I don't think i flew a night mission over a populated area without a least a few pot shots be taken at us.....and again, 1 time a round got through the wing, but it wasn't even noticed until the preflight the next day.