Oakland. Panther Hollow Bridge. Caller is a pilot flying a plane right now and says that they almost smacked a drone at 19,000 feet. The drone is only approved to 400 feet. They triangulated the operator to near that area.
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Performance is restricted by software. Off the shelf drones have it. I cannot fly my drone above 400’ AGL, nor into restricted airspace without contacting the FAA and getting a waiver. All drones above 249 grams are required to have Remote ID transmitters too. You cannot fly w/o registration.
400ft is an FAA restriction. Technically you could go as far up as your drone's range, although the higher you go the stronger the winds you're gonna have to deal with, at 19000 feet your drone is going to get tossed back and forth by the gusts.
No you can’t. Only home built aircraft will do this. Off the shelf drones have restrictions that force them to follow FAA rules. 95% of the drone flying population is not building them nor will they even operate at that altitude.
Now imagine that car has a computer in it that still limits your speed to 30 mph, and logs your location, then transmits that + registration # every second. The only way this is legit is if it was a flyaway malfunction & odds r very slim it’s operational @ 19k altitude + intersects w/ a plane. ⁉️
Bear in mind the vast majority of privately owned drones operating in the U.S. are sub-249 grams. They aren’t flying anywhere near 19,000 ft. My drone struggles in strong wind at 400’. @ 19k’ you wouldn’t be able to control it at all. Commercial drone pilot is not gonna risk losing their license.
Yeah, I've had 4 DJI drones, 3 crashed lol. Anyhow, they don't go very high. Even if you disable the altitude protocols. They still go high enough where you can't really see or hear them but certainly not 19000ft. I think mine stopped at 600 or so.
The current app won’t let you disable altitude without a waiver unless you do something that violates TOS with 3rd party hacking and possibly puts you in violation of federal law. I’d be real careful about what you admit to on here.
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The only thing I can think is a fly away malfunction maybe??
Even then, my drone will return to my last known location, so 🤷
Maybe Uncle Sam’s drone?