Just came face to face with another drone

[EpicFlight]

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This video serves another great purpose: Shows how hard it is to see a drone against an urban landscape, demonstrating why situational awareness by the drone operator is so important. No manned aircraft has any chance of seeing a drone in any timely manner

 

[old man mavic]

Not just to be pedantic, it is an "official" (so to speak) part of the aviation lexicon, all over the place in FAA and NTSB documents, and stands for Pilot In Command.

You were close

you are right i wasnt in command of my typing when i posted it sorry
or in control for that matter

 

[wardtom084]

If you are using AirData it will tell you if another drone has checked in.

 

[basyok]

Did you wiggle wiggle your drone to say hello?

 

[Kywon McCain]

Did you wiggle wiggle your drone to say hello?

That's exactly what I did toward the pilot and the drone

Did you wiggle wiggle your drone to say hello?

Heres how you do it

Take your remote


Grab your right stick


As the drone is in the air
Flying

Move the right stick side to side fast








Drone rocks side to side
I do it all the time to everyone
I fly to get their attention
Make them have a good look at me

I rock the drone to wave at them
Or if they wave at me
I rock back at them
You ever see a mavic pro
With a dented front
And missing front landing gear with the antenna exposed waving at you
In Baltimore city Maryland
That was me

 

[Kywon McCain]

That's exactly what I did toward the pilot and the drone

Heres how you do it

Take your remote
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Grab your right stick
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As the drone is in the air
Flying

Jerk the right stick side to side






View attachment 149381

Drone rocks side to side
I do it all the time to everyone
I fly to get their attention
Make them have a good look at me

I rock the drone to wave at them
Or if they wave at me
I rock back at them
You ever see a mavic pro
With a dented front
And missing front landing gear with the antenna exposed waving at you
In Baltimore city Maryland
That was me

Before my drone's exposed antenna broke off (order replacement arm)
There were kids outside
That were more or less my age
They were playing
Then they see me
You ever fly not to photograph, but for attention? And mabye even... A friend?..
I do
The kids waved at me
So I wave back
And they get exited
I love the sight
Try it sometimes

 

[Kywon McCain]

As soon as I fix my drones arm, the first thing I'll do is fly it to where the drone pilot was and wait for him to come out

 

[Kywon McCain]

he tried to evade you.

Nice job filming him as he tried to evade you. Good work.

evade

Ok
if he was evading me
He saw me before he took off
he would've never took off in the first place

 

[lookout]

 

[Kywon McCain]

I almost died laughing

 

[MAVE (Little bird)]

Today I was flying because my dad was having a grill out
I take videos and stuff for my own enjoyment
A wild drone appeared and went as far as follow me all the way back to my homepoint
It hovered around the area I was flying
I'm not scared at all
I kinda always wanted this
I always wanted friends who were drone pilots
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Note: this is screenshot from the video
Would post video
Dont know how

I wouldn't be surprised if the other pilot has video of your drone. Very cool.

 

[lookout]

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Looks like there are two guys on the ground, and each one is flying a separate drone. Maybe an eachine?

 

[jaswalt]

A really interesting discussion that I enjoyed - except for the use of jargon - sadly something that is happening more and more in printed matter.

Skywatcher2001 posted an interesting reply but I got to "YT" and thought 'what's the hell's that!"​

I wondered, and wondered, and then carried on reading other replies and then I got to one that said "YOU TUBE" and the penny dropped.

How many times have 'you' been baffled by acronyms in text, when the writer could have simply spelt it out?

I just head to google and type "what is YT in social media" (or whatever the acronym is). Probably don't even need all that to get a return. But that pretty much guarantees the first result is going to be what you are looking for.

 

[Kywon McCain]

I just head to google and type "what is YT in social media" (or whatever the acronym is). Probably don't even need all that to get a return. But that pretty much guarantees the first result is going to be what you are looking for.

YT
Is short
For YouTube
It's something we came up with

 

[jaswalt]

YT
Is short
For YouTube
It's something we came up with

I know. I wasn't the one confused. I was responding to the person who was confused by the acronym and told him what I do in situations where I'm in the dark and want to learn. But thank you for that.

 

[Kywon McCain]

I know. I wasn't the one confused. I was responding to the person who was confused by the acronym and told him what I do in situations where I'm in the dark and want to learn. But thank you for that.

Oh
Do you think he's mad at me?
I might dm him and tell him in sorry
Didn't mean to make him upset

 

[EpicFlight]

Oh
Do you think he's mad at me?
I might dm him and tell him in sorry
Didn't mean to make him upset

No Kywon, you're good. No one's upset.

Go fly

 

[Kywon McCain]

No Kywon, you're good. No one's upset.

Go fly

Phew...

 

[jaswalt]

Oh
Do you think he's mad at me?
I might dm him and tell him in sorry
Didn't mean to make him upset

You didn't say anything rude or wrong. You're perfectly fine. Even if you do, we're a pretty tolerant group,
Happy flying!

 

[lookout]

No Kywon, you're good. No one's upset.

Go fly

Usually when somebody is not quite cricket, they usually tell them to go fly a kite or something... but when the conversation started with flying a quad... NOW what?