Recent content by thefrozenhawaiian

less than 1000 in my state, that really kind of surprises me.

aside from drones being banned in state parks I don't know of any other maine specific regs. I'm up the road in south portland.

yeah I noticed that too. what I take that to mean is when enough "incidents" occur in a specific area FSDOs and probably local law enforcement will get tasked by the FAA to look into the registered/licensed drone pilots in that area, maybe find an excuse to start looking at peoples flight logs...

I would VERY surprised if DJI killed off the phantom line entirely. it's a product line that has and continues to sell well and fits neatly into the DJI product line between the inspire series and the mavic series.

I hate to say it but we're seeing the consequences irresponsible drone use coming to bite us yet again.

a military drone and a recreation drone a very different animals. a fixed wing military drone at those altitudes isn't unreasonable at all. what you're describing sounds like an MQ-9 reaper.

considering that most drones are very small compared to manned aircraft and made mostly of plastic or composites any radar would have a very hard time, or be incapable all together of picking them up.

also this. it's colder than holy hell and howling winds the past few days.

wow, what and idiot...

agreed, this doesn't pass the sniff test, a pilot says he saw something that might have been a drone at 3500 ft? the pool of people who will go to the trouble of doing the software unlock work to be able to fly a drone up that high is small to begin with but we're supposed to believe that 2 of...

weird, so far as I can tell every single person on a plane has one of those power packs with them these days

I think with a bird that only costs me $80 I'll be a lot more willing to be ballsy and take chances with how I fly and how close I get to things.

started with a P3 pro in 2016, picked up a mavic pro about a month ago and I think I'm going to pick up a tello just as an indoor/int he yard toy just to mess around with and as a cheap way to get more ballsy with my flying.

best one so far :)

another from yesterday. this is on the east side of oahu.