Bill in Ohio
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Yes, we flew low altitude in Turkey as low as 50 ft AGL or higher for pilot comfort. In Germany we couldn't fly below 1,000 ft AGL away from cities, in the US same thing in the SE. Red Flag was around 100 ft (can't remember that for sure).
Flying out of a base in Florida near Cape Canaveral, we took off and almost immediately had an airplane take a birds trike to the wing (blood and feathers, no aircraft damage).
Important to realize that if your drone is out of visual sight the aircraft/bird/helicopter further away is already a DOT and you have almost zero spatial awareness as to how close.
The problem at low altitude is that you don't birds them until it's almost to late to do anything. A guy I flew with a few times was killed, after I left Ramstein AFB, Ge., by a Turkey Vulture that went through the quarter panel (not the bullet proof windscreen). It decapitated him and parts hit the back seater and injured him. 420Knots is 700 feet per second, 480 800 ft per sec. He was practicing a low altitude attack. |
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