Aircraft dive bombed drone

[Cymruflyer]

Over sparsely populated areas when 1. If an emergency was to occur and needing to make a landing would not damage or injure anyone or anything. 2. Can only fly that low when there is 0 chance for people being underneath them. This was a park full of people walking dogs and such I had to find one segment of the beach just to fly safely. And there were still others around. The FAA even says while allowed is extremely risky and discouraged. Over state and national parks the FAA requests minimum of 2000 AGL.

Just to tie in other posts my drone has an anti collision attachment at top. That light is bright enough during the day I can easily see if from more than a football field away and the sky was overcast that day and as soon as he lost altitude flew over me he gained altitude again and changed direction. Just seems really suspicious to not have been related to the drone. If they wanted to fly over the lake why didn't they? Why lose altitude at that moment just to regain it.

I've been a pilot and instructor for many, many years and trust me, a tiny little blinking light on a drone is NOT something that is easily visible. A large thing like a manned aircraft is often very difficult to pick out from ground clutter so I am 100% sure this manned aircraft did not see your tiny little drone with a blinking light.

You may be able to see if because you know exactly where to look. I'm sure if I was flying my drone in your area and then suddenly asked you to scan the sky and pick out my little drone with the same flashing light you have on yours, you could not immediately pick it out of the sky.

If the GA airplane was at your suggested 2,000ft a short while ago and you took off with your drone, there is no way that it could have dropped from 2,000ft to your suggested 400 to 350ft in moments. A pilot does not willingly fly like that, and they would never be acting like that with their aircraft because to a pilot, altitude is safety, we don't just drop down to those low levels for no reason, because it is not safe to conduct flight at such low altitudes, especially over open water.

You are allowed to fly on the deck over open water but must fly in such a manner that you fly off to the side of any structure, boat or people on the water or ground. With your statement of "A handful of times" make we worry about the way you have been conducting your drone flying. You should have stated NEVER, not "A handful of time". There should NEVER have been a time when you needed to do any such thing because of a manned aircraft in your vicinity.

As has been said, you really need to re-evaluate the way you have been conducting your drone flying and go and fly from somewhere else. You have absolutely NO rights against a manned aircraft so take your blinking lighted drone and go fly somewhere else.

 

[jaja6009]

I've been a pilot and instructor for many, many years and trust me, a tiny little blinking light on a drone is NOT something that is easily visible. A large thing like a manned aircraft is often very difficult to pick out from ground clutter so I am 100% sure this manned aircraft did not see your tiny little drone with a blinking light.

You may be able to see if because you know exactly where to look. I'm sure if I was flying my drone in your area and then suddenly asked you to scan the sky and pick out my little drone with the same flashing light you have on yours, you could not immediately pick it out of the sky.

If the GA airplane was at your suggested 2,000ft a short while ago and you took off with your drone, there is no way that it could have dropped from 2,000ft to your suggested 400 to 350ft in moments. A pilot does not willingly fly like that, and they would never be acting like that with their aircraft because to a pilot, altitude is safety, we don't just drop down to those low levels for no reason, because it is not safe to conduct flight at such low altitudes, especially over open water.

You are allowed to fly on the deck over open water but must fly in such a manner that you fly off to the side of any structure, boat or people on the water or ground. With your statement of "A handful of times" make we worry about the way you have been conducting your drone flying. You should have stated NEVER, not "A handful of time". There should NEVER have been a time when you needed to do any such thing because of a manned aircraft in your vicinity.

As has been said, you really need to re-evaluate the way you have been conducting your drone flying and go and fly from somewhere else. You have absolutely NO rights against a manned aircraft so take your blinking lighted drone and go fly somewhere else.

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