But DJI consumer drones are a threat?
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Cafguy
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Maybe its time for the Government to understand that just like our privacy has slowly disappeared in the last 50 yrs, National Security is something that is going to become harder and harder to do! If the government wanted total security they should have long ago developed their own operating systems and networks, totally unplugged from the "mainstream" but I could only imagine how bad they would mess that whole thing up.
Speaking of NoKings, I took my drone to the local rally last weekend and was shocked to see so many drones and manned aircraft in the sky. There was so many drones that we had to stake a position and then stay in our AO just to be safe. The rally area (in the park) wasn't all that big and I saw at least 6 drones in the air at a time. There was one LEO drone (the big scary drone) so no one wanted to go near that one. I stayed at 150 feet and was able to move around a bit but mostly we keep our altitude just in case.
The three helicopters (one police helicopter) were 500 feet or higher, the police helicopter doing constant loops at 500 and the other helicopters were much higher (guessing it was News or sightseeing). Really strange for ADS-B to beep the entire time and the police helicopter to fly directly over your drone but you just knew he was passing by and had no intention of coming down....so I just hovered. Pretty sure he could see all the drones (not all the same drones at the same time but we rotated/battery) but they didn't seem to mind. In fact, one guy saw me and came over and asked if he could stand with me and fly his drone as well; fine. Not sure about the other pilots, didn't think about using RID.
It was pretty cool; I never felt so comfortable flying my drone at a public event where hundreds of people could see me using the controller and when I would land and take off (I used 3 batteries on the Mavic 3 Pro). Later I took out the Avata.
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