Professional investigator concludes - "what's the fuss about?"

[Lon Denard]

When did photon blasters become an addon option??? Where do I get one?

I think Polar Pro...

 

[FlyGuy8675309]

A frozen turkey does not have metal parts..

Wrong again. I cracked tooth one Thanksgiving due the Butterball plant hiring out-of-work line workers from the Caterpillar factory. Do your homework, man! (In their defense, the turkey was labeled has "having extra iron".)

 

[FlyGuy8675309]

Expensive, and not very effective it seems to me...
Unless you bought puts on DJI stock

What stock? DJI is a front for the MSS, I mean, it's a private company. I've said too much.

 

[Starfighter]

A frozen turkey does not have metal parts. One errant screw, nut or bolt in a turbine engine can be catastrophic.
The anodized aluminum props on many smaller airplanes (including many turboprops) could easily be bent, throwing the prop off-balance, necessitating a shutdown of the engine.
A pitot tube and/or static port could be damaged, resulting in the loss of indicated airspeed and/or altitude and vertical speed.
I could go on, and on.
I am a FAA certificated airplane pilot, instrument and instructor rated. I also worked in aerospace for decades as a MSC to many projects including the Boeing 777.
Anybody who says drones pose no threat to airborne aircraft are simply full of it.

A frozen turkey does not have metal parts. One errant screw, nut or bolt in a turbine engine can be catastrophic.
The anodized aluminum props on many smaller airplanes (including many turboprops) could easily be bent, throwing the prop off-balance, necessitating a shutdown of the engine.
A pitot tube and/or static port could be damaged, resulting in the loss of indicated airspeed and/or altitude and vertical speed.
I could go on, and on.
I am a FAA certificated airplane pilot, instrument and instructor rated. I also worked in aerospace for decades as a MSC to many projects including the Boeing 777.
Anybody who says drones pose no threat to airborne aircraft are simply full of it.

Why are they frozen? Turkeys don't fly around frozen.

 

[Lon Denard]

What stock? DJI is a front for the MSS, I mean, it's a private company. I've said too much.

Agents are on the way! Get your bug out bag and go!

 

[Pathogen]

When did photon blasters become an addon option??? Where do I get one?

Oh well I think its built in but they disabled it in the recent firmware.

 

[cderoche]

Why are they frozen? Turkeys don't fly around frozen.

Yea why not deep fried like we like em?

 

[cderoche]

Oh well I think its built in but they disabled it in the recent firmware.

Glad I rolled back to 700 then!

 

[Pathogen]

Glad I rolled back to 700 then!

Excellent! But watch out for the battery drain with those weapons, they reduce flight time 'significantly'!

What stock? DJI is a front for the MSS, I mean, it's a private company. I've said too much.

Don't worry, the proverbial cat has already been let out of the bag: A word of caution to the droning community

The latest word on the street is that Kevin Finisterre is actually a triple agent working for the Sri Lankans and is one of the nine members of the Asian Dawn movement.

 

[FlyGuy8675309]

Yea why not deep fried like we like em?

Just don't deep fry a frozen turkey...

 

[Brojon]

I was reminded of this quote yesterday:

"For every expert, there is an equal and opposite expert"
-- Arthur C. Clarke

 

[Lon Denard]

I was reminded of this quote yesterday:

"For every expert, there is an equal and opposite expert"
-- Arthur C. Clarke

True! Most "experts" have little to no actual experience in the field they are "expert" in. I'm far more interested in what an actual commercial airline pilot has to say than any dozen pencil pushing "experts".

 

[Phlier]

True! Most "experts" have little to no actual experience in the field they are "expert" in. I'm far more interested in what an actual commercial airline pilot has to say than any dozen pencil pushing "experts".

Ya know, I think there might be a post in here from a guy like that. He wasn't really too interested in getting all debate-y, though; just dropped a quick opinion and hastily left. Kinda like spraying lighter fluid on the bbq.

 

[sar104]

I was reminded of this quote yesterday:

"For every expert, there is an equal and opposite expert"
-- Arthur C. Clarke

Much though I've always like Clarke, this thread reminds me more of Isaac Asimov's quote:

"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."

 

[Lon Denard]

Ya know, I think there might be a post in here from a guy like that. He wasn't really too interested in getting all debate-y, though; just dropped a quick opinion and hastily left. Kinda like spraying lighter fluid on the bbq.

Yea and some guy may have quoted him because of his general respect for people that actually do things rather than people that theorize about what could happen if.

My college roommate is a commercial pilot as well. He flew for Northern Air for years before he hit the big time and now flies international. I hit him up on Facebook and asked his opinion and it was to a letter the same as yours. However, I also lack respect for the "ghost" expert people like to throw in a debate. You know the, "I know a guy that...." style of authenticating your point of view, so I didn't use it. In my opinion, that type of debate leads no where. "I have an SO that agrees with me". "Well I have a 15 year commercial pilot that says I'm right". "Oh yea?, well three commercial pilots, two fighter pilots and a Bald Eagle agrees with me!" Really? Well I have the ghosts of Orville and Wilbur Wright, Howard Hughes and Chuck Yeager on my side, so there!" It never ends.

 

[Lon Denard]

Much though I've always like Clarke, this thread reminds me more of Isaac Asimov's quote:

"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."

With "ignorance" somehow always being the dissenting view point from yours.

 

[Lon Denard]

Yea why not deep fried like we like em?

Then they would really be deadly with all those *shudder* saturated fats! Lordy da chillins, who gonna protect da chillins?!?

 

[sar104]

With "ignorance" somehow always being the dissenting view point from yours.

Now you are projecting. Inevitable irony.

 

[Riveratdave]

I wonder if I could rent it to shoot a Mavic at a commercial airplane tire?

Anything's possible for the right $$$.

 

[cderoche]

Now you are projecting. Inevitable irony.

Like a ping pong match!