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First flight today with my P4P. Around the 2:50 mark two huge low flying military planes come out of nowhere.
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No I didn't hear anything. I'm not really sure why I flew backwards like that. I was originally planning on flying to that Grey hill and hovering over it looking down while I ascended to 400ft but I received a extreme wind velocity warning fly with caution notification so I started coming backwhy did you decide to fly backwards on the way back? Did you hear them coming before you saw them? Either way good job seeing and avoiding those two aircraft.
I was looking at my tablet fpv and noticed what I thought was birds at first. When I realized they were huge planes I pushed down on the stick as far as it would go! Scared me. Heart was pounding. They were so loud flying over meGood job seeing them and descending. Where is this -- I'm thinking socal and if so you may have been in one of the restricted special use airspace zones that occupy a huge portion of southern and central California.
Take a look here and find the spot you were flying.
http://knowbeforeyoufly.org/air-space-map/
Also, in case you do not already have it download the B4UFLY app for iOS and Android.
Again, good eyes and appropriate response -- I bet they never saw you...
Brian
I was looking at my tablet fpv and noticed what I thought was birds at first. When I realized they were huge planes I pushed down on the stick as far as it would go! Scared me. Heart was pounding. They were so loud flying over me
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Hahaha! I thought my P4P was a goner or worse I caused a plane to crash!Yeah, I can imagine a change of underwear might have been needed as well!
Brian
A few people in my Facebook group checked for me and they confirmed I was notWere you near an MTR (military training route) on the sectional map?
Those aircraft were C-130Js, BTW.
A few people in my Facebook group checked for me and they confirmed I was not
KingDad1985, do yourself a favor and download the B4UFLY app as well as the Airmap app so YOU can check before flight. It's my guess you were in a restricted place. You must not rely on someone from Facebook.
U.S. Air Space Map | Know Before You Fly
That said, I'll repeat that you did a **** fine job seeing and reacting to the AC.
Brian
Good advice. Another thing you can do is look on Skyvector.com and refer to the sectional for your area. Sectionals look intimidating at first, but there are a number of YouTube videos on how to interpret them.
I understand and I posted the coordinates. And someone did come back and say I was flying in a "zone" come to find out he was in the wrong area and took back his first claims.KingDad1985, do yourself a favor and download the B4UFLY app as well as the Airmap app so YOU can check before flight. It's my guess you were in a restricted place. You must not rely on someone from Facebook.
U.S. Air Space Map | Know Before You Fly
That said, I'll repeat that you did a **** fine job seeing and reacting to the AC.
Brian
Does anyone think my YouTube title is misleading? Or will cause harm to the drone community?
Yes ... it's misleading, nothing was close to hitting your Phantom.Does anyone think my YouTube title is misleading? Or will cause harm to the drone community?
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