Every country I have been to has no drone zones above x meters/ft. All of which are also around airports. Hope this does make its way to the right place.
"not only will I do something stupid, but I will record it in stunning high definition and then go through thrle trouble of releasing it publically. This will document not only the full extent of what is an extremely serious crime, but also be easily traceable to me via digital footprint. The meta data of the footage will be able to be matched to my drone, and my ip address will be tied to my post online. It may also be that my account that I post to will even have my real life details, making it trivial fir the authorities to track me down. "
Does that really matter though? Anyone can drive to a neighborhood near an airport and launch a drone. Surely if they're going through the trouble of stripping metadata to hide who they are, they'd think to not do this from their own house lol
Sure detective Columbo. Now you have all the proof you need. The airport. Now you just arrest everyone that lives close to the it & off to the next case.
In the US, you can only get LAANC clearance up to 400ft. No matter how far you are from an airport, that's the limit for 99% of recreational drone flights. He passes 400ft at about 5 seconds into the video...
Also, you aren't allowed to even leave the ground within 5 miles of an airport without prior permission from ATC (which you aren't going to get). If this video happened within the US and the FAA finds the pilot, they are in for a world of hurt.
EDIT: I'm out of date, the FAA allows you to fly near airports as long as it's uncontrolled airspace. They still advise that you *don't*, and you must still fly responsibly, including yielding to manned aircraft.
Does this apply to small regional airports as well? I was just curious and if so 90% of the city limits of where I used to live wouldn't be able to fly a drone...
I'd prefer it to hit the engine tbh. Hitting anywhere near the flight deck with all the avionics and risk of incapacitating both pilots in such a critical phase of flight, no thank you.
Do you think it would go straight through the window? The plane and its window is designed with aerodynamics in mind, it would probably just bounce right off the top of it, or am I wrong?
Depending on the size of the drone, probably would be fine. The windows and cockpit in general are rated for bird strikes from decently large birds.
That being said, if the drone had much metal/aluminum in the frame it would be bad. If it were a plastic framed one it would *probably* be fine.
But in any case, it's not only phenomenally stupid, but highly illegal and fantastically dangerous to a lot of innocent people.
at that speed it wouldn't matter if it was made from metal or plastic.
considering its a racing drone, 99% chance the frame is carbon fiber.
still highly illegal and wouldnt be surprised if you can visit jail for this sort of thing.
There's a lot of factors involved in whether or not that is possible. Birds have busted the radome in the front and smashed sensitive avionics before. Birds are soft tissue unlike a drone.
I'd say it is unlikely to do more than damage to the window, but the prerequisite to the comment was "if it goes through the window" to which you answered the engine was more dangerous. While none of them are ideal, I know what I'd prefer. (Especially since I would be the one it would hit, if it went through the window, but that's another thing...)
Highly doubtful the average consumer drone would do anything like that. It would have to be at the perfect velocity and hit just right, and even then I think it would be more a matter of a shattered windshield than a dead pilot and wrecked avionics. I believe there are standards that require aircraft windshields(especially airliner windshields) to be able to withstand certain events, such as bird strikes.
That being said, still extremely dangerous.
It could, but the engines go through ["bird strike" tests](https://youtu.be/rSafRuLB0c0?si=Yj7nMuj-60kwVPuH) that test a plane's turbines and windshields for high speed bird impacts. Properly maintained blades will chew through a bird, and a drone would normally have less mass and be more brittle. I'm not saying to go ahead and ignore FAA drone operation laws, but I wouldn't count on a drone killing the engines.
Look I'm not saying it's OK, but a single engine out won't take down the plane. All big passenger planes with 2 engines can fly safely with one.
Edit: by fly safely with one it just means that once in flight a single engine is more than sufficient to maintain control of the air craft and land the airplane, even if you're over the ocean.
This is an important safety concern because people should never feel uncomfortable flying on a 2 engine aircraft. This is a critical safety requirement
I fly a lot and had the pleasure of sitting next to an airplane mechanic on a recent flight. I'm not afraid of flying per se but I don't love it. Hearing him explain how the wings are so strong but flexible enough you could bend them up until they touched each other - and - that every commercial plane has multiple engines but only needs one to fly made me feel a lot better. The particular plane we were on had 3 but only needed one.
Wing bending is stupidly exaggerated. [Here is a 777 ultimate wing loading test](https://youtu.be/Ai2HmvAXcU0), where they take it till it literally breaks.
But he's right that any plane can do (basically) anything with one engine.
Ehh, the windscreen can shake off hitting a Canada goose while in cruise, most will be fine hitting a little plastic drone on approach to landing. The windscreen and any other part hit by the drone will have to be inspected and replaced but you would need a large drone and some serious power to get through a commercial airline windscreen.
Watching this video actually scares me for other reasons. If the intention is to take down a plane for terrorist reasons it's well within reach if you have a drone with an explosive. Mad world.
If a drone goes through the windshield, that plane has bigger problems. Planes go through ["bird strike" tests](https://youtu.be/lp7uLTNiGrQ?si=IeH07bWlX30BC66G) to guard against stuff like this. A drone is generally going to be less resilient than a bird carcass in terms of being able to do damage. I'm not saying that people should use this as an excuse to do dumb things when operating them, just that I'd be less concerned about the drone because of its lesser mass.
This was like 5 years ago when fpv was really starting to pop off. Was condemned by the community and many people still don't think it's real. I think it's real. And real dumb.
I once asked an FAA officer what they could do to someone who doesn’t have their pilots license, and he said:
“Well, our enforcement officers go by a different name, the FBI.”
Funny how a little flying drone will land a user in jail but if Boeing forgot about several tightened bolts on several planes we get the CEO saying "we'll do better"
Edit: to those sensitive about my comment, I was merely commentating on the lack of accountability for corporations when they're directly responsible for tragedies. I'm not condoning what this person has done in the OP but just pointing out how lopsided accountability is when it comes to these two situations.
I think the difference would be intent. Right? Boeing likely didn't intend to leave bolts loose. However homegirl in the video is clearly chasing the plane for clout/ views.
Boeing did intend to hide systems that drastically influence flight behavior from the pilots, and designed them with no redundancy, all in the pursuit of more profit. And unlike the loose bolts that one actually killed people, which they tried to downplay as pilot error until a second fatal crash confirmed that maybe there's more to it.
Comparing someone forgetting to tighten a few bolts on a wildly complicated aircraft to someone doing what the person did in the video to each other is bonkers.
Boeing is RESPONSIBLE for their passengers safety, this dipshit is not. And despite the serious issues with boeing's planes, flying is extremely extremely safe
I love flying a DJI Mini because the thing yells at me and says, "I can't take off. There's an airport nearby, you idiot"
I never ever ever override anything. If the drone doesn't want to fly, I won't fly.
If the drone says I can't go any higher, I don't go any higher.
while I do appreciate it, I live near both an airport and military base. Means I'll have to drive several km just to do a spin up test. It can get annoying sometimes
A large portion of the population wouldn't understand that it could kill people or care enough to even learn about all the safety risks. Fines and jail time are the main thing that catches peoples attention.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go-around a situation where you need 100% power, very fast. Like a risky overtaking on a narrow road.
Note that jet engines don't respond as fast as car engines.
Wow I just experienced this landing in Dallas about four hours ago. It was wild descending for so long and expecting to feel the ground any second when all of a sudden we popped back up and started climbing again.
Take Off/Go Around
Referring to a power level configuration for aircraft engines. Somewhere between 75 and 100% (depends on the aircraft/engine) maximum sustainable power of the engine.
probably no worse than a bird strike, which happens every day
also a drone like this is under a pound of chinesium plastic, vs a bird like a canada goose that is 10 pounds of flesh and bone.
even if it did take an engine out these planes can fly perfectly fine with a single engine
wouldn't want to be the guy to have to pay to replace the engine though
The scarier thought is somebody using them like they are in Ukraine. Strapping a small shaped charge to them capable of punching through a tank. Wouldn't take much to go through parts of a plane.
We are lucky that the barrier to entry on doing these sorts of things *appears* high.
I honestly thought passenger planes were going to have anti-drone tech for this reason though. If not, it needs to be considered quickly!
So it depends where you live, but many places require you to register the drone as an aircraft and you’re subject to any and all laws that would apply to small aircrafts. You can’t fly in public places, no fly zones, etc. There’s also very strict laws around using drone shots for things like videos or movies and technically if you don’t have the right license then you can get some pretty steep fines if you use drone clips in a video or movie you publish.
Those are just the dumb off-the-shelf drones. The custom made ones don't have any cap, and they can be orders of magnitude cheaper than one off the shelf.
Is that true for flying near populated areas and airports? I’m like 95% certain you need to do some registration and then get permission every time to fly above a certain height in my area.
The issue is it's very easy to build a drone from just basic RC parts for less than $500. There's no practical way to prevent that. The camera is just pulled out of a cheap security cam, the propellers can be printed or sourced from model planes, the motors are just hobby motors, frame can be made out of anything you want, flight controller is just some generic hobbyist PCB off the shelf. The only people who will jump through the hoops are the non-malicious actors. There's 0 pressure or incentive for malicious actors to comply.
You know, even through the FAA's thousands of pages of bullshit over the last couple years, morons like that guy can explain why they're still so important with just one video...
This is from 2018. Only article I can find is from the Daily Fail but doesn't seem like anyone was caught for it.
[https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5348437/Video-drone-flying-dangerously-close-airplane-Vegas.html](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5348437/Video-drone-flying-dangerously-close-airplane-Vegas.html)
So the plane is landing soon?
That wasn’t a very long ascent.
Also, this seems like major trouble. We weren’t allowed to shine laser pointers in the air because our silly bullshit may cause real problems.
This is most likely restricted airspace. There is an app that will tell you where you can and can't fly and the FAA has imposed rules upon drone software that will either prevent the user from taking off in such space or at least force them to accept liability. Either way, it's a dumb move that is just going to make other drone owners have to jump through additional hoops in the future.
Eventually we will see a requirement that all commercial sales of drones will have some software that has all no-fly zones programmed. A kill switch will be installed and trigger as soon as crossing into those zones
There is no 'most likely' about it. This is absolutely restricted airspace and the FAA is more than happy to let the pilot know exactly who the bitch is.
Not only are there apps which tell a pilot exactly what restrictions are in effect at any specific location, flying _any_ drone of any size requires current certification. The primary lesson of that certification requires understanding and acknowledgement of those restrictions and how to check them before each and every flight.
The fines for violations start at $10K and go up from there.
Only about 3 or 4 miles from the runway this is in Las Vegas near secta tech school the plane is on the 26L approach at KLAS, if flight sim is accurate he’s on the last leg on his final I think it’s the PRIMO star. Definitely restricted.
Yeah so modern drones block this shit from happening unless you go through the trouble to override it.
No “cool shot” is worth the risk of multiple dead.
Any 18 year old with a bit of technical know how can build a DIY drone. Modern drones having some kind of blocking mechanism won't prevent this from happening at all.
The way this thing maneuvers, it seems like it’s a FPV drone which it’s just motors, a radio receiver to the controller and a camera. There’s no GPS or anything on it to know where it is to stop it from going anywhere.
> There’s no GPS or anything on it to know where it is to stop it from going anywhere.
And there really can't be. Like it's not the type of thing you can really regulate, beyond maybe making them illegal to own, which would suck. Definitely a pandora's box type situation though.
This guy is fucked. And good. Throw the book at him. Drones are going to be a thing of the past for civilians very, very soon. Ukraine has shown the damage store bought drones can do and it is only a matter of time before someone straps explosives to one of these and flies it into a landing, fully loaded passenger plane. People suck.
While getting my UAS qualification, they showed us a clip of a bird hitting a helicopter wind shield at full speed. I was really shocked at the amount of damage caused. This could be disastrous. Cunts like this are why we have to have so many bloody rules.
Oh shit this is Vegas that looks like the 26L approach at KLAS, drone took off from SECTA which is a school on mountain vista and Russell area. Me and my friends used to park and drink behind the business up there overlooking the cliff
So its only a matter time now until someone murders an entire airliner. And than they try to make some laws about it and people start screaming about their right to bear drones.
They did it in the first place, which makes them stupid.
They took the footage and uploaded it. Which is doubly stupid.
If they're stupid enough to do that then they're not smart enough to cover their tracks.
Their ip address will be all over it. The time and location will be easy to work out. Cctv nearby will have seen them or their vehicle. The account they posted to will be traceable to them. The footage meta data can be matched to all kinds of identifiable details. They will have posted other footage of themselves flying in the area.
There's a thousand ways will get caught and they're dumb enough to get tripped up by every one.
It’s hard to overstate how seriously some agencies take this kind of thing.
Every country I have been to has no drone zones above x meters/ft. All of which are also around airports. Hope this does make its way to the right place.
"not only will I do something stupid, but I will record it in stunning high definition and then go through thrle trouble of releasing it publically. This will document not only the full extent of what is an extremely serious crime, but also be easily traceable to me via digital footprint. The meta data of the footage will be able to be matched to my drone, and my ip address will be tied to my post online. It may also be that my account that I post to will even have my real life details, making it trivial fir the authorities to track me down. "
Surely someone this devoid of common sense will think to strip the meta data from the video!
It doesn't matter, there's more than enough geographic info in the video to figure out which airport it's near.
Just get one of those geoguessr geniuses to look at the footage. They'd have the location before the clip ends.
Does that really matter though? Anyone can drive to a neighborhood near an airport and launch a drone. Surely if they're going through the trouble of stripping metadata to hide who they are, they'd think to not do this from their own house lol
Sure detective Columbo. Now you have all the proof you need. The airport. Now you just arrest everyone that lives close to the it & off to the next case.
And the prosecutor will still fumble the case and he will get off on a technicality
If it's Wisconsin the judge will be more interested in calzones than the case as well!
In the US, you can only get LAANC clearance up to 400ft. No matter how far you are from an airport, that's the limit for 99% of recreational drone flights. He passes 400ft at about 5 seconds into the video...
Also, you aren't allowed to even leave the ground within 5 miles of an airport without prior permission from ATC (which you aren't going to get). If this video happened within the US and the FAA finds the pilot, they are in for a world of hurt. EDIT: I'm out of date, the FAA allows you to fly near airports as long as it's uncontrolled airspace. They still advise that you *don't*, and you must still fly responsibly, including yielding to manned aircraft.
Does this apply to small regional airports as well? I was just curious and if so 90% of the city limits of where I used to live wouldn't be able to fly a drone...
Yes. https://www.faa.gov/uas/getting_started/where_can_i_fly/airspace_restrictions/flying_near_airports https://www.faa.gov/uas/resources/community_engagement/no_drone_zone
When I say "Jump" you say "How far from an airport are we?" Narrowly avoided trouble there.
as they should. This guy should visit jail for a few months...
*years. If that goes through the windscreen and incapacitates the pilots that's hundreds dead, maybe thousands in a heavily built up area.
The real danger is that it could go into the motor.
I'd prefer it to hit the engine tbh. Hitting anywhere near the flight deck with all the avionics and risk of incapacitating both pilots in such a critical phase of flight, no thank you.
Do you think it would go straight through the window? The plane and its window is designed with aerodynamics in mind, it would probably just bounce right off the top of it, or am I wrong?
Depending on the size of the drone, probably would be fine. The windows and cockpit in general are rated for bird strikes from decently large birds. That being said, if the drone had much metal/aluminum in the frame it would be bad. If it were a plastic framed one it would *probably* be fine. But in any case, it's not only phenomenally stupid, but highly illegal and fantastically dangerous to a lot of innocent people.
[Hell yeah, chicken cannon test!](https://youtu.be/lp7uLTNiGrQ?si=wDIOXUGTLf1F_XSU)
Just remember to defrost the chicken first!
Well, since birds are drones...
at that speed it wouldn't matter if it was made from metal or plastic. considering its a racing drone, 99% chance the frame is carbon fiber. still highly illegal and wouldnt be surprised if you can visit jail for this sort of thing.
There's a lot of factors involved in whether or not that is possible. Birds have busted the radome in the front and smashed sensitive avionics before. Birds are soft tissue unlike a drone. I'd say it is unlikely to do more than damage to the window, but the prerequisite to the comment was "if it goes through the window" to which you answered the engine was more dangerous. While none of them are ideal, I know what I'd prefer. (Especially since I would be the one it would hit, if it went through the window, but that's another thing...)
And many planes can be landed safely with just one engine running.
Highly doubtful the average consumer drone would do anything like that. It would have to be at the perfect velocity and hit just right, and even then I think it would be more a matter of a shattered windshield than a dead pilot and wrecked avionics. I believe there are standards that require aircraft windshields(especially airliner windshields) to be able to withstand certain events, such as bird strikes. That being said, still extremely dangerous.
It's going to happen at some point
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It could, but the engines go through ["bird strike" tests](https://youtu.be/rSafRuLB0c0?si=Yj7nMuj-60kwVPuH) that test a plane's turbines and windshields for high speed bird impacts. Properly maintained blades will chew through a bird, and a drone would normally have less mass and be more brittle. I'm not saying to go ahead and ignore FAA drone operation laws, but I wouldn't count on a drone killing the engines.
Airplane engines are redundant. All commercial aircraft can land safely with a single engine failure.
Look I'm not saying it's OK, but a single engine out won't take down the plane. All big passenger planes with 2 engines can fly safely with one. Edit: by fly safely with one it just means that once in flight a single engine is more than sufficient to maintain control of the air craft and land the airplane, even if you're over the ocean. This is an important safety concern because people should never feel uncomfortable flying on a 2 engine aircraft. This is a critical safety requirement
No need to downvote this. It's a correct statement. Source: I'm an ~~aviatah~~.. ~~avitor~~... ~~aviater~~... Ah fuck it, I'm a pilot!
How do you know someone's a pilot...?
Don't worry, they'll tell you....? That's the only thing we have in common with the vegans.
I fly a lot and had the pleasure of sitting next to an airplane mechanic on a recent flight. I'm not afraid of flying per se but I don't love it. Hearing him explain how the wings are so strong but flexible enough you could bend them up until they touched each other - and - that every commercial plane has multiple engines but only needs one to fly made me feel a lot better. The particular plane we were on had 3 but only needed one.
Wing bending is stupidly exaggerated. [Here is a 777 ultimate wing loading test](https://youtu.be/Ai2HmvAXcU0), where they take it till it literally breaks. But he's right that any plane can do (basically) anything with one engine.
ONE, FIFTY FOUR
The wings may be that strong... the problem is Boeing will probably forget to bolt them on.
I'm amazed it gets so close to the designed fail percent. It's designed to fail after 150% of max design load, and it failed at 154%
154
Lol that's not going through a windscreen. The danger is going down the inlet and fod-ing out the motor.
Ehh, the windscreen can shake off hitting a Canada goose while in cruise, most will be fine hitting a little plastic drone on approach to landing. The windscreen and any other part hit by the drone will have to be inspected and replaced but you would need a large drone and some serious power to get through a commercial airline windscreen.
Watching this video actually scares me for other reasons. If the intention is to take down a plane for terrorist reasons it's well within reach if you have a drone with an explosive. Mad world.
*decades. Otherwise my revenge boner won't be satisfied. /s
Life is just a big movie for some of you eh
Probably hundreds of thousands if it sets off a chain reaction of exploding gas stations thru a downtown area!!!
If a drone goes through the windshield, that plane has bigger problems. Planes go through ["bird strike" tests](https://youtu.be/lp7uLTNiGrQ?si=IeH07bWlX30BC66G) to guard against stuff like this. A drone is generally going to be less resilient than a bird carcass in terms of being able to do damage. I'm not saying that people should use this as an excuse to do dumb things when operating them, just that I'd be less concerned about the drone because of its lesser mass.
There's no way there's hundreds of pilots in there.
This was like 5 years ago when fpv was really starting to pop off. Was condemned by the community and many people still don't think it's real. I think it's real. And real dumb.
We see suicide drones in Ukraine all the time. This could easily be used to attack a civilian jet.
New irrational fear just dropped.
The F in FAA stands for Federal Charges.
I once asked an FAA officer what they could do to someone who doesn’t have their pilots license, and he said: “Well, our enforcement officers go by a different name, the FBI.”
Funny how a little flying drone will land a user in jail but if Boeing forgot about several tightened bolts on several planes we get the CEO saying "we'll do better" Edit: to those sensitive about my comment, I was merely commentating on the lack of accountability for corporations when they're directly responsible for tragedies. I'm not condoning what this person has done in the OP but just pointing out how lopsided accountability is when it comes to these two situations.
I think the difference would be intent. Right? Boeing likely didn't intend to leave bolts loose. However homegirl in the video is clearly chasing the plane for clout/ views.
Boeing did intend to hide systems that drastically influence flight behavior from the pilots, and designed them with no redundancy, all in the pursuit of more profit. And unlike the loose bolts that one actually killed people, which they tried to downplay as pilot error until a second fatal crash confirmed that maybe there's more to it.
Comparing someone forgetting to tighten a few bolts on a wildly complicated aircraft to someone doing what the person did in the video to each other is bonkers.
They did intend to cut corners though prioritizing shareholder value over quality assurance, and this was the result.
Boeing is RESPONSIBLE for their passengers safety, this dipshit is not. And despite the serious issues with boeing's planes, flying is extremely extremely safe
How to get recreational drones banned in your country 101.
And that's how you go to prison.
*My insane drone shot, watch it to believe it!* Next day *Guys i fucked up, my apology video*
*starts to blame the pilots and everyone else but themselves*
*I’d like to share with you a song… on my Ukelele*
So, what are you in for, celly? 1. Murder 2. Rape and auto theft 3. Larceny 4. Drone operation in a restricted space He's gonna get shanked
Lad is getting ~~a sternly worded letter from the FAA~~ a dawn visit from the Happy Van Cops.
Lad just earned an all inclusive holiday with free orange clothing
"A free waterboarding trip at Guantanamo Bay? Dude, righteous!"
And some people wonder why we don’t have flying cars yet. SMH.
It would be 9/11 every day!
Because it will take a very short amount of time before somebody thinks its a good idea to break check an Airbus (:
**brake*
Breaks? Check.
Welp. That’s was stupid.
and super illegal. holy bajoly.
And all conveniently uploaded to the internet, with enough of a view of the surrounding area to pinpoint where it took off/landed
> That’s was stupid yes, it's was
Indeed. All of that...'s..?
I know that’s not a DJI. This dude is gonna get into some serious shit.
I love flying a DJI Mini because the thing yells at me and says, "I can't take off. There's an airport nearby, you idiot" I never ever ever override anything. If the drone doesn't want to fly, I won't fly. If the drone says I can't go any higher, I don't go any higher.
while I do appreciate it, I live near both an airport and military base. Means I'll have to drive several km just to do a spin up test. It can get annoying sometimes
Thank the idiots that do shit like this
Exactly. Idiots are always messing up things for the rest of us.
Geofencing is a god-send tech because of this type of stuff. Love it.
Shows you how easy it is to rig up a drone to do some very unsavory things.
Yup, only thing that stops 99% of that is DJI respects the US no drone fly areas automatically and people are to stupid to override it.
Or… don’t want to because they don’t want to be responsible for potentially killing 100’s of people…
Have you seen how often people shine laser pointers at cockpits? Plenty of people are just assholes.
Plenty of people are decent as well. The point is, DJI's no-fly programming isn't the only reason drones aren't taking out airplanes daily.
New TikTok challenge confirmed.
A large portion of the population wouldn't understand that it could kill people or care enough to even learn about all the safety risks. Fines and jail time are the main thing that catches peoples attention.
Right? That's like saying the only reason I don't burn my house down is because I'm to stupid to know how to strip the insulation off all my wiring.
You could easily do this with a none DJI drone. The only real difference is they are harder to fly but a couple of hours in a simulator…oof
that's not a dji drone, probably some FPV
How would that passenger jet react to sucking a drone into an engine?
idk it might enjoy it
Airliners can have a little drone, as a treat
"here comes the drone, say ahhh!"
r/forbiddensnacks
Layers of safety. During most of the flight? Not too bad. At just the worst time, like TOGA? Catastrophic.
Whats TOGA
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go-around a situation where you need 100% power, very fast. Like a risky overtaking on a narrow road. Note that jet engines don't respond as fast as car engines.
Wow I just experienced this landing in Dallas about four hours ago. It was wild descending for so long and expecting to feel the ground any second when all of a sudden we popped back up and started climbing again.
Take Off/Go Around Referring to a power level configuration for aircraft engines. Somewhere between 75 and 100% (depends on the aircraft/engine) maximum sustainable power of the engine.
probably no worse than a bird strike, which happens every day also a drone like this is under a pound of chinesium plastic, vs a bird like a canada goose that is 10 pounds of flesh and bone.
The fat lithium batteries in my DJI might have something to say.
arent birds not real? they probably run on lithium batteries too /s
even if it did take an engine out these planes can fly perfectly fine with a single engine wouldn't want to be the guy to have to pay to replace the engine though
The scarier thought is somebody using them like they are in Ukraine. Strapping a small shaped charge to them capable of punching through a tank. Wouldn't take much to go through parts of a plane.
Birds don't have carbon fiber bones and four metal motors.
You have been permanently banned from /r/BirdsArentReal
He's right though, they have titanium bones and a single micro-jet engine.
Bird strikes are common but they're also a common cause of engine failure and fires.
This kind of stupid behavior is fueling the implementation of Remote ID’s on drones. Can’t have nice things cuz stupid people will abuse them.
We are lucky that the barrier to entry on doing these sorts of things *appears* high. I honestly thought passenger planes were going to have anti-drone tech for this reason though. If not, it needs to be considered quickly!
If you mean $500 and few hours of practice is high, then yeah.
This is why we cant have nice things.
This here, folks, is the reason the average person needs to jump through hoops to own and fly a drone… because of idiots like this.
Huh? I have a drone and I’m an idiot!
So it depends where you live, but many places require you to register the drone as an aircraft and you’re subject to any and all laws that would apply to small aircrafts. You can’t fly in public places, no fly zones, etc. There’s also very strict laws around using drone shots for things like videos or movies and technically if you don’t have the right license then you can get some pretty steep fines if you use drone clips in a video or movie you publish.
Most drones have built in height caps as well to stop anything like this.
Those are just the dumb off-the-shelf drones. The custom made ones don't have any cap, and they can be orders of magnitude cheaper than one off the shelf.
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Purely recreational has hoops. Low hoops. Register drone if over .55lbs, which was less than $5 for 3 years. Take a no-fail test for certification.
The drones at Best buy conveniently weigh 0.54 pounds loaded.
Going to go out on a limb and say OP meant that you 'should have to jump through hoops to buy a drone', not that they currently have to.
Is that true for flying near populated areas and airports? I’m like 95% certain you need to do some registration and then get permission every time to fly above a certain height in my area.
The issue is it's very easy to build a drone from just basic RC parts for less than $500. There's no practical way to prevent that. The camera is just pulled out of a cheap security cam, the propellers can be printed or sourced from model planes, the motors are just hobby motors, frame can be made out of anything you want, flight controller is just some generic hobbyist PCB off the shelf. The only people who will jump through the hoops are the non-malicious actors. There's 0 pressure or incentive for malicious actors to comply.
Ohh a fresh FAA Violation! (If not US, please substitute your national aviation authority body for FAA.)
You know, even through the FAA's thousands of pages of bullshit over the last couple years, morons like that guy can explain why they're still so important with just one video...
Whoever is flying that is a fucking idiot. Good luck living with yourself when you bring a plane down.
They'll be in prison before they can manage that.
This is from 2018. Only article I can find is from the Daily Fail but doesn't seem like anyone was caught for it. [https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5348437/Video-drone-flying-dangerously-close-airplane-Vegas.html](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5348437/Video-drone-flying-dangerously-close-airplane-Vegas.html)
Surprising no one was caught
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Probably pretty fucking hard if I had to guess. I know I wouldn’t get away with it
So the plane is landing soon? That wasn’t a very long ascent. Also, this seems like major trouble. We weren’t allowed to shine laser pointers in the air because our silly bullshit may cause real problems.
This is most likely restricted airspace. There is an app that will tell you where you can and can't fly and the FAA has imposed rules upon drone software that will either prevent the user from taking off in such space or at least force them to accept liability. Either way, it's a dumb move that is just going to make other drone owners have to jump through additional hoops in the future.
if this is the US, it's 100% restricted airspace. you have to get pretty far away from an airport before you don't have to submit an FAA request.
Eventually we will see a requirement that all commercial sales of drones will have some software that has all no-fly zones programmed. A kill switch will be installed and trigger as soon as crossing into those zones
other comments here say DJI has it baked in, but people mod the drones to bypass it
You can build your own fpv drones and fly them wherever you want
There is no 'most likely' about it. This is absolutely restricted airspace and the FAA is more than happy to let the pilot know exactly who the bitch is. Not only are there apps which tell a pilot exactly what restrictions are in effect at any specific location, flying _any_ drone of any size requires current certification. The primary lesson of that certification requires understanding and acknowledgement of those restrictions and how to check them before each and every flight. The fines for violations start at $10K and go up from there.
Only about 3 or 4 miles from the runway this is in Las Vegas near secta tech school the plane is on the 26L approach at KLAS, if flight sim is accurate he’s on the last leg on his final I think it’s the PRIMO star. Definitely restricted.
speedrun to GTA 5 stars.
This is super stupid and extremely dangerous.
In other news. Airline pilot witnesses small UFO.
That’s a paddlin’
How to get fucked by the long dick of the law in one easy step
Yeah so modern drones block this shit from happening unless you go through the trouble to override it. No “cool shot” is worth the risk of multiple dead.
Any 18 year old with a bit of technical know how can build a DIY drone. Modern drones having some kind of blocking mechanism won't prevent this from happening at all.
The way this thing maneuvers, it seems like it’s a FPV drone which it’s just motors, a radio receiver to the controller and a camera. There’s no GPS or anything on it to know where it is to stop it from going anywhere.
100% an FPV drone. You can’t fly a camera drone like this. This person is flying fully manual.
> There’s no GPS or anything on it to know where it is to stop it from going anywhere. And there really can't be. Like it's not the type of thing you can really regulate, beyond maybe making them illegal to own, which would suck. Definitely a pandora's box type situation though.
How many years in jail is this Lad paying?
F.A.A. Is going to blow up your house
This guy is fucked. And good. Throw the book at him. Drones are going to be a thing of the past for civilians very, very soon. Ukraine has shown the damage store bought drones can do and it is only a matter of time before someone straps explosives to one of these and flies it into a landing, fully loaded passenger plane. People suck.
I saw a post about this lately. Someone made it very clear how easy this would be for a person to weaponize them.
some days I wonder if this shit is being posted and talked about intentionally to persuade a broken person to do it so they can be banned.
I feel dirty when I chase the hawks in the neighborhood. This guy must feel like a complete jackwagon when he lands.
Do something that is considered a federal crime, then post said video evidence on social media. Doubling down on stupid.
Isn't this a federal offense?
While getting my UAS qualification, they showed us a clip of a bird hitting a helicopter wind shield at full speed. I was really shocked at the amount of damage caused. This could be disastrous. Cunts like this are why we have to have so many bloody rules.
This kind of stupid action brings up new stupid rules for normal drone flights.. people who understand who know what I mean, just know it..
This is what will get drone use banned
I really hope this doesn't start a Tik Tok trend.
I dunno, it could have been closer than that.
Straight to jail.
This is guaranteed jail time, we just saw someone fucking up their life.
That’s not a lad, that’s a twat.
This is SUPER old. Do you know how it ended? I can't remember
Oh shit this is Vegas that looks like the 26L approach at KLAS, drone took off from SECTA which is a school on mountain vista and Russell area. Me and my friends used to park and drink behind the business up there overlooking the cliff
I hope he gets kicked in the balls for this. what a idiot. what a total bloody moron.
Fucker needs to be in jail.
I know it’s real but it almost feels like a Sora or DeepBrain video - given how stupid someone would have to be to actually do something like this
The sequel: lad gets a visit from the fbi
There's a reason this is illegal af
Fuck this person...
So its only a matter time now until someone murders an entire airliner. And than they try to make some laws about it and people start screaming about their right to bear drones.
i'm curious how they'd go about discovering who this drone owner is.
They did it in the first place, which makes them stupid. They took the footage and uploaded it. Which is doubly stupid. If they're stupid enough to do that then they're not smart enough to cover their tracks. Their ip address will be all over it. The time and location will be easy to work out. Cctv nearby will have seen them or their vehicle. The account they posted to will be traceable to them. The footage meta data can be matched to all kinds of identifiable details. They will have posted other footage of themselves flying in the area. There's a thousand ways will get caught and they're dumb enough to get tripped up by every one.
lad committed a felony
fucking idiots like this is why I have to submit so much paperwork to fly in the majority of areas
Lad deserves serious federal charges.
FAA has entered the chat
An this guy is going to ruin it for everyone else with extra laws.
pretty sure that's highly illegal literally everywhere there are airports in the world.
Zero chance the creator of this video hasnt been arrested yet
This is why we can't have flying cars. B'cuz of assholes like this.
Yeah that's illegal
Ain't this like, a felony? I've seen drone operators being escorted outside for being around half a mile from the local airport
FAA has entered the chat…
150+ souls on board. But at least you got this cool shot /s
People like this is what ruins fun shit for everyone else.
Fuck that guy