Hello,
Today something odd happened to me, I was recording some videos near my school with the drone for a project, got authorization from the school, and went flying.
I didn't go above 30 meters high, and that's very good.
10 minutes after takeoff a Police Helicopter started flying above and around the exact area that my drone was and surprisingly extremely low, visually it seemed it was about 50 meters (150 ft) high, I never saw a helicopter fly that low! It was just above me, that kinda scared me, so I landed the drone immediately, after some seconds the helicopter flew away.
I took off again, but didn't go higher than 20 meters for safety reason, of course, and good that I didn't because soon the helicopter returned again! And to the same spot my drone was! That was super strange, however this time I didn't land my drone, just hovered it about 5 meters high above me, after a minute of the helicopter circling the school property it flew again into the distance and never returned, I flew for 15 minutes more and all fine!
To say the truth I was on the very edge of a no-fly-zone of a very small rural airport / heliport that rarely has planes take off. That's probably where the heli took off, but I was confused, did the helicopter have Aeroscope, so it located the drone?
The more I think about it, the more it seems like it is just a coincidence, but what didn't make sense is that when I took off the 2nd time the heli returned again! That seems odd.
What do you think?
Today something odd happened to me, I was recording some videos near my school with the drone for a project, got authorization from the school, and went flying.
I didn't go above 30 meters high, and that's very good.
10 minutes after takeoff a Police Helicopter started flying above and around the exact area that my drone was and surprisingly extremely low, visually it seemed it was about 50 meters (150 ft) high, I never saw a helicopter fly that low! It was just above me, that kinda scared me, so I landed the drone immediately, after some seconds the helicopter flew away.
I took off again, but didn't go higher than 20 meters for safety reason, of course, and good that I didn't because soon the helicopter returned again! And to the same spot my drone was! That was super strange, however this time I didn't land my drone, just hovered it about 5 meters high above me, after a minute of the helicopter circling the school property it flew again into the distance and never returned, I flew for 15 minutes more and all fine!
To say the truth I was on the very edge of a no-fly-zone of a very small rural airport / heliport that rarely has planes take off. That's probably where the heli took off, but I was confused, did the helicopter have Aeroscope, so it located the drone?
The more I think about it, the more it seems like it is just a coincidence, but what didn't make sense is that when I took off the 2nd time the heli returned again! That seems odd.
What do you think?