Had some fun while flying about 150 ft above my house, watching a cop speed trapping, pulling cars over. He was working hard.

Don Testme · Feb 2, 2023

So, I was practicing flying my M3 in my neighborhood, mostly above my house. I was at about 150ft. As I was turning, I noticed a cop had someone pulled over on the main road nearby. As I continued practicing maneuvers, I saw the cop again with a different driver pulled over. Then again, and again and again. I swear he pulled over 10-15 cars during the time I was watching. He didn't seem to pay any attn to the drone.

I would watch a couple minutes for each car, from a long distance, using explorer mode. I didn't witness any shootings.

Sorry, but I didn't feel like posting any video. It was Boring.

msinger · Feb 2, 2023

MAvic_South_Oz · Feb 2, 2023

Don Testme said:
Sorry, but I didn't feel like posting any video. It was Boring.

A pity, but ramp up the speed say 30x and it would probably be ok.

Don Testme · Feb 2, 2023

MAvic_South_Oz said:
A pity, but ramp up the speed say 30x and it would probably be ok.

I didn't post that vid, but you can change the speed settings. 1.75x makes it sound pretty funny.

lensimages · Feb 4, 2023

Don Testme said:
So, I was practicing flying my M3 in my neighborhood, mostly above my house. I was at about 150ft. As I was turning, I noticed a cop had someone pulled over on the main road nearby. As I continued practicing maneuvers, I saw the cop again with a different driver pulled over. Then again, and again and again. I swear he pulled over 10-15 cars during the time I was watching. He didn't seem to pay any attn to the drone.

I would watch a couple minutes for each car, from a long distance, using explorer mode. I didn't witness any shootings.

Sorry, but I didn't feel like posting any video. It was Boring.

Sounds like he was pulling over speeding drivers, or drivers breaking local laws, why would there be shootings, cheers Len

Don Testme · Feb 4, 2023

lensimages said:
Sounds like he was pulling over speeding drivers, or drivers breaking local laws, why would there be shootings, cheers Len

Just thought i'd through the shootings part in, seeing as the news is filled with cops killing people now a days. It was meant to be sarcastic.

msinger · Feb 4, 2023

Don Testme said:
seeing as the news is filled with cops killing people now a days

That's one of the most fascinating things about the news. They find rare and interesting stories, publish them many times (in many places), and then some folks think it's happening in every city/town on Earth.

screwthepap · Feb 4, 2023

Must have been near the end of the month and the cop was trying to meet quota.

djwak59 · Feb 5, 2023

lensimages said:
Sounds like he was pulling over speeding drivers, or drivers breaking local laws, why would there be shootings, cheers Len

“Why would there be shootings” ???
Because many of us live in America.

Don Testme · Feb 5, 2023

Canada, at a 14 rank, actually has a better freedom rating than the USA. If I recall correctly USA ranks like 44 in freedom out of about 110 countries. HERE IS A PARTIAL LIST BELOW: Of course, I doubt this can be correlated to drone freedoms. I wonder if they will make a drone freedoms list someday. I know the Middle east is super restrictive on drone use. Surprisingly, Mexico is very prohibitive to drones flown by foreigners. Foreigners simply can't fly in Mexico. Mexico is rated at 61 I think.

I went on a cruise to Mexico. I wish I could have taken my drone, but I wasn't going to risk it being held until I returned to my country or even risk flying it in Mexico.

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