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Police Launch Drones Over LA
An anonymous reader writes "Yahoo! News is reporting that law enforcement officials have launched a new form of drone aircraft to patrol the skies above Los Angeles. From the article: 'Police say the drone, called the SkySeer, will be able to accomplish tasks too dangerous for officers and free up helicopters for other missions. "This technology could be used to find missing children, search for lost hikers, or survey a fire zone," said Commander Sid Heal, head of the Technology Exploration Project of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. "The ideal outcome for us is when this technology becomes instrumental in saving lives."'"
Lets see, a link with pictures. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/5051142.stm
Oh look, it is basically a kite with a solid body to house the engine and camera. About the size and weight of a big bird. So it will pose the exact same danger of damage that a big bird does. Wich is actually pretty big but hey, as long as you stay up there you should be save. You mention yourselve the answer, this UAV will not fly at the same altitude civilian aircraft are supposed to fly at.
As to ultra lights. Well the biggest danger is again the pilots themselves. Most of them simply aren't very good pilots in the same way most car drivers aren't very good drivers.
If you can't spot a chopper at the end of a runway hovering or not you shouldn't be flying an aircraft. No don't bring speed up. The only reason to care about something at the end of the runway is if you are taking off wich means you start standing still. If you then while waiting for takeoff can't see if the sky is clear ahead of you how the fuck did you pass the eye exam?
Frankly your son has no business being anywhere near these UAV's.
There have been numerous accidents in holland too with ultra lights, each and everyone of them down to pilot error. Flying into a chopper doesn't sound like pilot error, it sounds like pilot stupidity.
Are civilian helicopters painted in better camouflage or somehow have a smaller outline then military ones? Cause when I spend a lot of time around them in the military the last thing you could say about a chopper was that they were hard to notice. They are about the size, if not the length of a semi. How can you miss that?
It sounds a bit like those people who get hit by a tram claiming they never saw it coming. It is yellow, it weight 50 tons and makes a sound like a herd of cats being chainsawed. How can you miss it?
MMO Quests are like orgasms:
You may solo them, I prefer them in a group.
Good luck seeing thru the smog
Table-ized A.I.
You sir, are an optimist. That makes you dangerously close to being "part of the problem".
Think about it.
"Which is why you use a shotgun firing flechette ammo; my 12 gauge will hit a target at 300 meters with sabot flechette ammo, perfect for shooting down anything snooping on my kids in the pool."
HAHAHAHAH. What a load of bullshit. LMAO.
Do you even OWN a shotgun? 300 meters? HAHAHAHAHA!
Rodney King was drunk, geeked up, and fucked up on PCP and driving 90+ miles an hour down a major street where he could of killed numerous people had it been daytime. I never heard of the Taser part, but if that one's true then I support even more what the cops did to him.