Recent content by dronerdave

Last night. Nice to see some others in astronomy. Funny but the other night a drone came in low to take a look. Neighbor cause I hear the drone often during dusk. BTW a night vision device cuts through Bortle 7 skies.

Well, I don't want to comment on this particular incident, but I (legally) fly RC off small active/private runways weekly. These are FRIA sites with an understanding between the club and those running the airports. Sometimes we have to share the site with full size aircraft. I think it's up to...

I just had another close fly-by the other day. Mind you I'm flying off a private runway, but heard a noise and looked up to see a small plane about 150 AGL heading right for me and a few other friends. One of my buddies was still in the air. I heard the plane when he was about 800 feet away...

If they come over a hill you often never hear them coming...even a helicopter. I fly off active runways a lot and have had planes coming in landing... often never hear them coming. I'm far from deef and neither were the other RC flyers on site that day. The worst was this (or similar) jet that...

Difference between manned and unmanned aircraft I suspect.

Yeah I see plenty.

If anybody is setting up a scope in light polluted skies, there is a better chance of them using a larger portable scope or an imaging set up. There are many who only image from light polluted skies. Maybe it's hard for you to understand but when you image, the scope is open to the sky for...

Then you don't know anything about astrophotography. A drone passing a telescopes field of view will ruin a long term image. The real problems are more with full sized aircraft and satellites but compounding the problems with drones does not help the drone community at all. At least with most of...

Well, I'd still check. Just makes common sense. Some of those places have public outreach astronomy programs and I wouldn't want to be there after dusk flying a drone. Daytime shot..meh.

In regard to night flying, recreational night flying has been going on for years in the helicopter and fixed wing world at AMA sanctioned clubs sites. I have a few planes with internal lights that light the whole plane up. Nothing about 3 mi-vis strobes has ever came up. I doubt if strobes have...

I don't know if the FAA has specified the night time operation rules in regard to strobes vs distance other than the visibility stats. Unless they have added new verbage, it seems more that their idea is a wide swath and vague... similar to keeping 100% eye contact on the RC aircraft. I think...

Since all this started I've said I'll wait until RID is put into service (and enforced) before I start to worry rather than speculate now. I sent in my views against RID during the NPRM request. What happens next is a crap shoot 🤷‍♀️ I do appreciate those taking up the battle against...

Can you supply the FAA (rec/107) rule that states that?

Yep and then they will pack the kids in the car and drive off. I'll use a tactic I've seen here so much...what are the chances of your kids being injured in an auto accident as you haul them around in a vehicle compared to the chance a specific drone flight being Pedophilia motivated? I'd...

I guess I should have said a data base with my name and address that the public can access via RID. Like I said I don't care if the proper authorities have access to it.