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Saw a drone last night.
I was at a HS soccer game about 30 miles west of here.
I was walking along the track when I heard a buzzing like bee. Looked up and there it was...pretty high up...few hundred ft at least. It was strange that nobody but me noticed it hovering.
I pointed up and asked two HS kids if they knew who was looking at us with the drone. They were real surprised. They thought it was a classmate who lived about a mile away in a S/D. They said that he could control it from his house. When the battery got low, it knew to fly back to base.
Sure enough after a few minutes of hovering it flew off in a hurry.
Pretty cool.
I'm surprised that a lot of surveyors didn't find a drone hovering over their Christmas tree this year.

 
Posted : January 6, 2017 3:04 pm
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Isn't it nice that people using them for good use have to operate within the line of sight but booger pickers fly them until the battery turns them around?

 
Posted : January 7, 2017 5:54 am
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Creepy.

 
Posted : January 7, 2017 11:47 am