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Flying Drones are becoming a life threatening problem here in California.

#201
Never too late- look at all the drugs that were legal before their potential ill effects were known- Salvia, bath salts, LSD, cocaine, opium etc...all once legal and now banned.
I really think that due to the grave nature of the danger they present around airports in particular, ownership of them should be banned to all except those who can show a professional need.
 
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Lobster11 said:
Now there's a headline in this morning's news about a near-miss between a Delta airliner and a drone near JFK airport.

The thing that's most troubling about this one, I think, is that the drone operator was clearly in violation of a half-dozen different laws, so it's not a matter of waiting for the right legislation to be put into place. Instead, it's a reminder that there will always be idiots, and it's just a matter of time before one causes a real catastrophe.
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Here is the Kennedy Control Tower recording of a Delta Airliner, (flight # 407) reporting a drone on final approach. The drone was flying 1300 feet above ground level. As you can hear it takes a lot of the controllers time to warn the other arriving aircraft about the drone in the flight path.
What kind of idiot would fly a drone in the final approach flight path of one the nation's busiest airports? You got to wonder if he was doing it on purpose just to play a game of chicken with the airliners.
 

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#203
David Jayne said:
Never too late- look at all the drugs that were legal before their potential ill effects were known- Salvia, bath salts, LSD, cocaine, opium etc...all once legal and now banned.
I really think that due to the grave nature of the danger they present around airports in particular, ownership of them should be banned to all except those who can show a professional need.
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Yea, and we all know how legislation totally eradicated those problems :roflmao:
 
#204
Thats pretty intense audio. I heard some of it previously but not the whole thing. If nothing else, it shows the incredible amount of attention and focus the air traffic controllers and pilots had to give that drone. Man, this is a powder keg.....
 
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Fiset said:
Thats pretty intense audio. I heard some of it previously but not the whole thing. If nothing else, it shows the incredible amount of attention and focus the air traffic controllers and pilots had to give that drone. Man, this is a powder keg.....
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Yep, air traffic controllers have one of the most stressful jobs there is. The drone distraction in itself could allow for a critical mistake by a controller that could lead to a catastrophic event between two airliners. Most of the FAA controllers out there are good at their jobs but still make mistakes by losing situational awareness from time to time.
 
#207
I just saw on the news where a guy is up on charges for shooting one of these things out of the sky.

I don't have all the details but apparently the drone was within what he considered his private space and he regarded it as an intrusion on his privacy.

They make him (the shooter) out to be the bad guy.

He is not apologetic in the least.

I don't condone everybody grabbing a gun and start shooting drones...

But there's a part of me that is totally on his side....
 
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I wondered when it would come to something like that. I had to laugh at the Boeing spokesman, though; "A low cost solution..."? Really? On a government contract? Well, I imagine that, compared to a B-2 bomber, it probably is. I'll bet the production ones will go for a low, low $250K a pop...:rolleyes: Wonder when I'll be able to get one on Amazon? And while we're on the subject, I saw a news blurb this morning, about police departments getting permission to deploy armed drones. So, we're going to have WWI-style Drone Dogfights over our houses now?:)
 
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That wasn't my point; the government here is infamous for buying things like $600 ball peen hammers (with a perfectly straight face). And, government contractors are equally infamous for selling them (also with a perfectly straight face). So, my sarcastic point was that for Boeing to sell something that cost them $1500 to make, for $250K because, WTH, it's a government contract - and calling it a "low cost solution", was more than a little ironic...:rollno:
 

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