"Near Miss" with an American Airlines passenger jet

[themajik1]

Interesting story about the "Near Miss" with an American Airlines passenger jet.

http://www.nikropht.com/the-faas-drone-near-miss-is-full-of-fud/

Sounds like the Trappy loss from the FAA has upset them.

 

[rcspaceflight]

I never bothered reading the story when it was floating around the net. It smelled like BS to me. Anything military wouldn't be near a commercial airport. Anything hobby would be too small to even be noticed or to do any damage beyond a bird strike. Commercial jets are built to handle a bird strike, with the exception of a bird getting sucked into an engine.

 

[Andrew]

http://www.nikropht.com/the-faas-drone-near-miss-is-full-of-fud/

Where on earth is that author/reporter(nikropht) getting their information from.

Most toy and hobby RC Radios only work at a range of about 300 feet

They must of brought their RC gear in the toy aisle of the supermarket.

....these large-scale models can hold about 200 ounces of fuel. This gives them at best a max flight time of about 10 minutes, and a range of about a mile.

It's a bit more than a mile range.

.... FAA is trying to whip up a media frenzy to help people forget the knockout punch it got from 29-year-old Australian Raphael Pirker after the NTSB sided with him.

Raphael Pirker is Austrian from Austria NOT Australia.

 

[skeplin]

CNN posted a clip that was filled with sensational jargon. In 1 minute and 42 seconds, they mentioned the word "drone" 10 times. Not only that, but they said the model was shaped like an F4 phantom and then proceeded to show a picture of a quadcopter in flight.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/09/travel/unmanned-drone-danger/

 

[themajik1]

Its all media hype trying to work the American people into a frenzy. I do believe that it is also the FAA doing what they can to control what they can.

We really need to have the AMA and educate the public about our hobby and not let these morons win this.

This is all about more government control over all aspects of our lives.

 

[adamd]

Im just gunna keep flying