First Drone I've Seen

[rondog]

I wonder what an M1 would do to one.....

[R&S]

Gonna call BS on that one... Buckley would have been more plausible, but Centennial, doubt it.

I'm not supprised, Front Range Airport held a meeting for the "resident pilots" of the airport and had a presentation of an outfit wanting to fly drones out of Front Range. They were met with a lot of oppsition from the pilots because those damn ulta light and alike are hard enough to see/miss now they want to introduce drones in and out of the airspace. The last word was they were flying out of a college campus somewhere (I wished I had taken notes).

[motohooligan]

Just to play devils advocate... How do you feel about police helicopters? Is it somehow better for the human flying the aircraft to be physically be inside it instead of on the ground?

[R&S]

Safer for the pilot in the airplane

Just to play devils advocate... How do you feel about police helicopters? Is it somehow better for the human flying the aircraft to be physically be inside it instead of on the ground?

[USAFGopherMike]

I don't know where you live, but apparently the cops are using them. A quick search yielded these articles:

http://news.discovery.com/tech/drones-sky-122302.htm

http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/R42940.pdf

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqnjx...layer_embedded

http://rt.com/usa/drone-surveillance-mesa-colorado-433/

[rockhound]

ve are vatching always vatching

[Shootersfab]

I have one in my garage right now.....

[jerrymrc]

I have one in my garage right now.....

Trying to catch the boss with something so you can get a pay raise never ends well.

[mrstellar]

Sure it wasn't a Starship? Or A-500?

Hi Ridge. No, it wasn't either one of those. I've seen a A-500 and a Starship 2000 in person. This aircraft was one solid color. Dark charcoal. It had a rear prop, and the v shaped rear landing gear that drones have. It had it's strobes on as well.

[USAFGopherMike]

Sure it wasn't a rutan Long EZ?