To cut a long story short, a few weeks ago, with unaided eyes, I saw something very odd in the sky not too far away from my house. Knowing the area and looking at the resulting flight map I estimate it, a kite, was around 250m away.
I sent a drone, an
M2P, up to have a look, I was curious as to what the something was. With the drone overhead the kite was invisible on the screen.
I estimate I had to get within 100m of the kite for it to become a speck on the screen, at around 75m it might have been recognisable but I had to go within 50m of the kite for it to be clearly visible and if the kite flyer made the kite twitch it disappeared from the drone's field of view and I had to retreat in order to recapture it on screen. This was even though I could see the kite with my eyes and I put the drone between me and the kite.
If I had been reliant on just the screen view the kite could have been up the
M2P's exhaust pipe and I wouldn't have known about it until it was all over.
The kite's size? easily 3 times that of the
M2P and that's excluding the kite's tail. Take from this adventure what you will.