View Full Version : UAV / Airbus close thing near Kabul
BossEyed
5th Oct 2004, 18:30
:eek:
UAV vs. Airliner (http://strategypage.com/gallery/articles/military_photos_200410111.asp)
Anyone identify the UAV type?
Spotting Bad Guys
5th Oct 2004, 22:57
It's one of the German drones - there's a video kicking around on the internet somewhere....
SBG
Photo number 5 (http://strategypage.com/gallery/articles/military_photos_2004101115.asp) is scary!
/scary
An the local UAV fledglings wonder why the CAA is not to keen on the "see and avoid" principle when you talk about UAVs
:E
Whipping Boy's SATCO
6th Oct 2004, 10:00
The CAA are indeed very wary about unfettered access to all airspace.
From this set of photos, can one assume that the "See" bit of "See & Avoid" was working?
MajorMadMax
6th Oct 2004, 14:03
...there's a video kicking around on the internet somewhere...
Ooooo...someone has to find us a link! :}
Cheers! M2
A10 Thundybox
6th Oct 2004, 23:38
clearly the UAV pilot was at the drive thru
Spotting Bad Guys
7th Oct 2004, 02:37
Perhaps it was ATC that were at the drive thru..... most of these things carry transponders. Looking at the pics, the rate of overtake would suggest that in any case the UAV pilot wouldn't have been able to take much in the way of avoiding action.
SBG
BEagle
7th Oct 2004, 07:23
UAV's don't have pilots - just a remote operator wh can play MS FlightSim without wetting himself.
The beancounters are very keen on UAVs because they don't need expensively trained aircrew and are much cheaper than real aircraft.
UAVs do have their uses, but the current eagerness to run before they can walk by the Royal Aeromodel Force needs to get a sanity check if similar incidents are to be avoided!
Absolutely. Something like that could never happen with an aircraft with a pilot on board. Just ask the controllers at Newcastle.... :ouch:
Ian Corrigible
5th Nov 2004, 22:38
On a similar theme, Rotorhub (http://www.shephard.co.uk/Rotorhub/ShowReportItem.aspx?ID=31c55671-5281-40e1-98cb-fc94f6e8e4ad) is carrying a fairly astonishing quote made by a US Army senior at this week's Heli-Power show:
According to Brigadier General William Jacobs, Deputy Commanding General at the US Army Aviation Center, the “number one threat” to helicopters flying at low level in Iraq is not small-arms fire or wires, but “the potential for a collision with a UAV.” Therefore, he told the audience here in Madrid, low altitude airspace control is a hot issue in Iraq.
I/C