Recent content by mattsavage

I wasn’t in Portland in this situation. I was at the summit of the cascades on a small peninsula surrounded by lake in the middle of a rocky burned out basin, the fire burned so hot, even the top soil burned up, most of what was left is eroding away. It’s eerily silent there, which is why I...

I can hear my own drone at 400’agl no problem. And in this environment, with no trees and no wind, in a rocky basin, I could hear it nearly 800’ away. Maybe the air2s is exceptionally loud…🤷‍♀️

Everyone is turning me in to a skeptic now, doubting my own sanity…😂 The only other explanation, the only one, is that I heard the drones coming, was scanning for them, and filmed the wrong target. As I mentioned, these were probably 4-500’ up, and I confess to not having my glasses on, but...

If I could do that, I wouldn’t have asked the question….

That’s what I’m wondering, cause I know little outside of the remote sensing world. Is there tech and a purpose where these things are released en masse to perform a particular purpose? ai controlled, fly their mission, done… they’re swarming about cause they all have sensors for avoiding...

Okay, case closed🙄

I’ve never seen starlings in the high cascades before. My earlier starling comment was tongue in cheek, I know they mimic noises, but they have to spend ALOT of time around something to pick up on it. The odds are less than slim to none.

Birds that whine like small drones? The exact same noise from the small quadcopter drones I saw a few minutes earlier at a lower altitude? Same noise, just a few hundred feet higher? I’m not an idiot, I’m not asking if they’re birds or not, I know the difference. I’m asking if anyone has...

Here’s a small flock of waterfowl, same day, same location. I shot this with the intent to compare, they’re the only birds I saw that morning. These are much larger than those drones.

Yeah, phone vids are junk…. Wish I could have had a dslr on a tripod ready to hit fire on the shutter release, but this is all I got. I’m that guy now,I guess…. Wait for my Bigfoot video to drop! 😂 But, definitely not birds, the first two groups were very clearly drones and flying lower and in...

Sorry, reposting, I used an inappropriate four letter word, I apologize. No, absolutely not birds. The first group of two or three came whizzing by at about 100 or so feet AGL. I could clearly see that they were some sort of small quadcopter, but incredibly quiet, not silent, I just didn’t...

Okay, I’m not a conspiracy theorist type person…. These are not UFOs, at least not in the extraterrestrial sense. I know they’re drones, I saw and heard them several times, they are not birds. Three different times within a span of about 15 minutes. I saw groups of multiple small drones flying...

Just passed my P107, work at our DOT. Gonna be flying ALOT of landslides and rockfalls. We typically use Matrice 300’s with lidar, but I guess we’ve also acquired a new Mavic 30t. Excited to use that for some photogrammetry projects. My personal aircraft are an Air 2 and Air 2s.