Drones over NJ , PA, NY, Ohio

This is why I love and hate TW.
Now I have to learn about radiation level, drones, FAA regulations, and look at timelines.

They say, “curiosity killed the cat”.
Looks I’ll die here on TacomaWorld.

 

I was thinking to buy binoculars, I do have video camera but I don't think it can see that far.

As from locals, they tried to put up their own drones but upon approach battery died, drone dropped

 

Why I’m just gonna hang some GITD mobiles over the bed & call ‘er good.

 

Did the school bus driver wave to your mom every day when they picked you up?

 

Commercial pilot here, I spent Saturday night flying from NJ to NY and back renting with my brother (another pilot), we didn’t see a single “drone” - I have the Ring neighbors app downloaded and all the local posts are straight up airplanes in north jersey

 

No, that's how you were made probably

 

Yea, like i said i dont see sht from my windows. I drive to work everyday 5AM, don't see nothing, either I am blind or for some reason they don't like flying above me

 

Apparently there's nothing worth investigating in your vicinity

 

I’ll take your word over the media, and social media.
I think a lot of this is founded on some truth, which then turned into a big “fish tale”.

If anything, I’ll have learned lot more useless knowledge by the time this is over.

 

Literally posted in here about drones by my house back in 2022! We followed one one time and sure as shit it was as big as a car! They'd all fly in from the North in a grid pattern every night or so right after dark. Twas really weird!
https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads...nd-midwest-ftw.693133/page-1309#post-28021236

 

I don’t know where you are in Illinois.
But I know they have drones that are very large that they use to spray pesticides.
I know they use them in parts of Texas.

I think DJI even makes a few.

 

Never seen or heard of them being used by us. My area has well over 10 airports in probably a 50 mile radius so we see plenty of crop dusters. I've actually worked for one of the local farm Co Ops for a very brief period of time and I never saw or heard anything about drones spreading fertilizer.

 

They are starting to become more common to be used in crops in fields where it's too wet for a wheeled sprayer and/or too small for a plane but they don't fly them at night.
https://youtu.be/O0v6owmRlWs

 

Those are interesting. I don't think they are fertilizer drones. They didn't fly over fields and make lots of passes. Just flew over everything in a sort of grid pattern.

 

Unfortunately there’s no such thing as a thermal or infrared radar. Those are wildly different technologies operating on completely different principles from radar. A standard military radar can absolutely detect and track a drone of the size people claim to see. The radar I use can acquire, track and guide munitions onto small drones and it is nothing huge or fancy by some standards.

 

Coincidence

 

Can read any of that without my laptop.