David Martin Graff
First Officer
Flight distance : 106566408 ft
United States
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A J Posted at 8-27 07:09
That is encouraging to read as I've read a few threads where the drone just lands upon entering an NFZ and there is nothing the pilot can do to stop it - if it now just stops, hovers and RTH then that is a much safer procedure and one less likely for someone to lose their drone whilst not flying into a red area.
Yes, I've accidentally entered 2 NFZ's near my house, believe it or not I have 3 airports surrounding me, and I constantly watch for planes and helicopters in the air.
I had one close call with a commercial airliner, when I was flying my Mavic Pro and it was early in the morning on a Sunday where I was photographing someone's house and I took off at a much lower altitude and gave the drone some up pitch to see how the property looked from high above.
We had no idea that I was on top of a commercial airliner when the Mavic Pro had the gimbal pointing straight down when all of a sudden we saw on the video that the Mavic Pro caught a commercial airliner flying low directly right below and past it and it was right over the house where the pilot must have been flying below 400 feet to taxi into the airport?
I would have attached the video but too concerned about having it go viral. If you were personally with me I'd play it for you and it is amazing how close that airliner came to squashing the Mavic Pro into smithereens. I doubt there would have been any risk to that airliner having seen the video it flew below at a blazing speed, the Mavic Pro wouldn't have known what hit it and doubtful anyone on the plane would even have heard it too..I'm not concerned about Jumbo airliners at risk of a flying drone, they are plastic and weigh hardly anything and remember high up above the air has large pockets of gases that weigh in aggregate more than a Mavic Pro and planes collide into them frequently and noone ever is aware of these collisions that's because those pockets of large gases have no effect on a jumbo airliner or anything that weighs in the tons... |
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