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CCoconut Island Drones replied to the thread Air 3 Helicopter passing over my drone.If you read my original post the whole video was taken with the telefoto/zoom lens as the chopper was too far away to use the standard lens.
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CCoconut Island Drones replied to the thread Air 3 Helicopter passing over my drone.The use of the telephoto lens makes it look much closer than it was. If I'd used the normal lens it would have been a dot in the sky.
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CCoconut Island Drones reacted to mavic3usa's post in the thread Air 3 Helicopter passing over my drone with Like.
I don't recall ever having my drone that close to a manned aircraft. I would be concerned that if a helicopter saw your drone and it was "too close" they would report it and then for sure the FAA would want to speak to you. So far I haven't had...
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CCoconut Island Drones replied to the thread Air 3 Helicopter passing over my drone.I estimate I was at least 200m below the chopper as it flew over. I had to switch to the telephoto lens to get the footage. It arrived so quickly I wouldn't have had time to land anyway so for me the best course of action was to decend to a safe...