Friday, May 18, 2012
Drones work well in Shitholeistan
In large part because there is very little other traffic in the skies over there. What may well happen on a regular basis in this country was shown recently by a near miss incident over Colorado.
An airline pilot came close to crashing his plane near Denver, Colorado this week after encountering a mysterious object in the sky thought to be an unmanned drone aircraft.It is controlled airspace for a reason and it is doubtful that many drone dudes are trained to deal with ATC or even paying attention to whatever may be in the same airspace. The drone dude is safe and snug back at base, what does he care what he hits.
A tape recording made available this week confirms that the pilot of a Cessna Citation 525 CJ1 radioed air traffic controllers outside of Denver on Monday after nearly colliding with an unidentified flying object. Several factors have suggested that the aircraft was most likely a robotic drone aircraft.
According to the record, the pilot came close to hitting what he described as “a large remote-controlled aircraft.”
The Cessna’s pilot says that the craft was encountered at around 8,000 feet above sea level, or 2,800 feet above the ground in near the highly elevated city of Denver.
Speaking to reporters at 9News, a spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration confirmed that the agency is attempting to make sense of the unusual encounter.
“The threat is there from a collision standpoint. We'll do as much as we can here to try to track back what time it was,” the FAA’s Mike Fergus says of the group’s investigation.
Greg Feith, a former investigator with the National Transportation Safety Board, adds to 9News that, whatever the pilot encountered, is a threat no matter how you look at it.
"That's an issue because now we have something in controlled airspace that poses a danger," says Feith.
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