reported a possible drone strike
Look, I'm not saying it's wrong. I just get a very different mental image when I hear "done strike".
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What like a school full of children or a journalist in a car?
Drone collision seems more accurate here.
Eh, it's just a modification of "bird strike" which is commonly used for "plane strikes bird"
This. "Bird strike" is the accepted term for such a collision of a passenger aircraft with a bird. Thus drone strike.
Look, I'm not saying it's wrong. I just get a very different mental image when I hear "done strike".
Everyone’s phones auto correcting the word drone eh.
This is interesting because 3,000 feet is well above the software-imposed ceiling of most consumer drones. I wonder if it was an older model with fewer restrictions or something else entirely.
It's trivially easy to bypass for a lot of the DiY kits out there. I have actually sort of assumed that at some point they would try to kill that entire flight controller ecosystem under the guide of national security.
Uh oh. I’ve never really been interested in drones but this may have triggered my policy of snapping up any tech that I think is likely to get outlawed
Are you the asshole who keeps driving through my neighborhood at 1:30am with the illegal muffler modification?
Oh sorry I meant plausibly useful tech
Rad, carry on!
Come on, those illegal muffler mods are super useful, how else are you going to announce to an entire mile radius area that you need an electron microscope just to find your dick?
3d printers are next. Cant be having the masses creating physical plastic products that could be sold to them instead.
Didn't they just essentially ban DJI?
Yes
I wonder if there's a way to trick the software limit so it thinks the ground is higher than it is, and allows a higher elevation above sea level. If you can make it think you're in Denver when you're actually in San Diego, it might let you fly a lot higher.
If the altimeter was disabled would the drone refuse to fly to begin with?
I think the gps also returns an altitude. So it might not matter
I mean, you can 3D printer print them and if your techy enough, you could have an unregistered drone.
"Red" and "shiny" at 3,000 feet.. Doesn't a balloon sound more likely? I'm no expert but I imagine violently shredding a LiPo battery in a jet turbine would not be catastrophic but at least noticeable
There was no damage to the plane. Therefore you could safely surmise the drone did not strike the engine.