Drone hovers right above jet landing at Las Vegas airport

brianuc4 · Feb 3, 2018

Drone hovers right above jet landing at Las Vegas airport

Don't be the guy who flew a drone over a jet landing at Las Vegas airport

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Pedals2Paddles · Feb 3, 2018

Completely fake video. Microsoft Flight Simulator or X-Plane. Guaranteed.

brianuc4 · Feb 3, 2018

I'm hoping it's fake.

skyhax · Feb 3, 2018

if so there will never be a retraction.

Pedals2Paddles · Feb 3, 2018

Of course. The media isn't concerned with facts. They make their bombastic click bait headline, a story with little substance and lots of emotional BS, and collect on the advertising income. Done.

Don H. · Feb 3, 2018

Doesn't even look real. That won't stop the news media though.
Fake News!!

LuvMyTJ · Feb 4, 2018

Here is the video

XevetS · Feb 4, 2018

Either I'm not keeping up with Recent Flight sim technology and they have come a long way in a few months, or that is actually some Moron violating every FAA drone rule known to man? Looks very real to me and I've been playing PC/Console games since PONG....Oh boy....We are done....

Pedals2Paddles · Feb 4, 2018

Looks exactly like the high quality expensive scenery, aircraft, and camera view controls I used to have in msfs

just_bruce · Feb 4, 2018

My brain says simple physics declares this a fake. Unless someone is flying a military-class bird. Or custom built speedster. Anyone know what landing approach velocity on a 747/737 is?

Pedals2Paddles · Feb 4, 2018

That plane is doing 130-150mph in real life. Doesn't look like it's doing that? Wtf camera would be on that drone that could run a high enough frame rate to handle that magical slow motion. It's fake.

Maddog · Feb 5, 2018

There is a thread on either Commercial pilots or Phantom pilots about this.

There is documentation there that it is real along with all the info on the pilot, location, etc.

It was filmed with a high-dollar racing drone. Plane was traveling just over 200 kts.

just_bruce · Feb 5, 2018

Maddog said:
There is a thread on either Commercial pilots or Phantom pilots about this.

There is documentation there that it is real along with all the info on the pilot, location, etc.

It was filmed with a high-dollar racing drone. Plane was traveling just over 200 kts.

Little help with a link? Went looking and all I could find was this:

FAA Violation - Another Idiot

Which is full of speculation but no actual information.

Help?

DJMc · Feb 5, 2018

Approach about 140-148 kts depending on weight. 200 kts at that altitude on short finals would be a significant 'issue'.

DJMc · Feb 5, 2018

Pedals2Paddles said:
That plane is doing 130-150mph in real life. Doesn't look like it's doing that? Wtf camera would be on that drone that could run a high enough frame rate to handle that magical slow motion. It's fake.

That was my first thought....ActiveCamera type addon programme with Rex weather maybe? Nice clouds [emoji38]

Given all the very tenuous reports to date on 'near misses' it seems odd that there hasn't been any mainstream coverage of this?

so low still grounded · Feb 5, 2018

The camera perspective and plane perspective and speed.
How can the airplane move off its line sideways? Into the shot? also Think of when you film motor sport shots = the car speed is exponential no cameraman can keep to pace with that. Yet this guy does it by accident with a faster airplane dead centre of shot. don’t think so! more chance of filming top aerial shot Santa on a sled with reindeer

IrishmanPDX · Feb 5, 2018

Wait a minute......... wait a gosh darn minute.............. are we all saying that there's a such thing as "FAKE NEWS"............. dear god... what does this mean for humanity?

TurboGhost · Feb 5, 2018

I have a couple fpv race drones, they are definitely capable of this, i am by no means saying this is right, IMHO this guy should have his ass beat! But i regress. You can build a bird that fast for $200 now. But seems like people just care about the footage and not the lives of everyone on the plane, and where the plane may come down, god forbid.

XevetS · Feb 5, 2018

The FAA is treating this as an incident, looks very real to me I can see people on the ground in the HD-vid look very closely you can easily see vehicles on the highway not typical "sim" vehicles either, this is no simulation people. "perhaps the plane was added later in post using some effect"...

eaglefreedom101 · Feb 5, 2018

I still don't know about this one. It may be legit and if it is they should make an example out of this guy for endangering so many lives. But in other versions I've seen (commercialdronepilots.com) there is definitely some editing done. There is a blurred spot that the plane actually crosses through. Either way this is the wrong way to bring attention to our hobby/ trade.