ADS-B and drones
Thread Starter
Joined: Sep 2010
Posts: 1,339
Likes: 0
From: earth
ADS-B and drones
Congress approves domestic deployment of surveillance drones- 30,000 could haunt skies by 2020 « Photo's, Hodgepodge and Miscellany
Government and private enterprise will have clear skies for UAV's with unknown capability or intentions as the bill to expand ADS-B systems is in effect over the USA. Big brother grew larger wings...
Government and private enterprise will have clear skies for UAV's with unknown capability or intentions as the bill to expand ADS-B systems is in effect over the USA. Big brother grew larger wings...
Joined: Jan 2008
Posts: 127
Likes: 1
From: Australia
Great Terrorist Opportunity?
So you are saying that all I have to do is find a clapped-out DC-3, load it up with a nuke, fit it with ADS-B, clone the ADS-B from a passing drone, and I can fly it anywhere I like in the USA?
Please nobody tell Al Qaida. Ooops...
Please nobody tell Al Qaida. Ooops...
Joined: Jan 2008
Posts: 798
Likes: 0
From: The Land of Beer and Chocolate
And once the Jane-Doh type hysterics are over, we have a link or two that are definitely a bit more credible.....
U.S. Military, Industry Seek Ways To Fly Unmanned Planes Amid Civil Air Traffic | Defense News | defensenews.com
Congress OKs FAA bill allowing drones in U.S., GPS air traffic control - chicagotribune.com
U.S. Military, Industry Seek Ways To Fly Unmanned Planes Amid Civil Air Traffic | Defense News | defensenews.com
Congress OKs FAA bill allowing drones in U.S., GPS air traffic control - chicagotribune.com
Joined: Sep 2006
Posts: 2,181
Likes: 1
From: any town as retired.
5 year plan
Once the ATC considerations are resolved, the next one is passenger concerns..
But if the crew costs are removed, a LOLOCC will be an option....
In 5 years freighters will be unmanned, in 10 years passenger aircraft.
You heard it here first...
I wrote an unpublished short story, several years ago about unmanned passenger flights..need to see what i predicted as time frame.
glf
But if the crew costs are removed, a LOLOCC will be an option....
In 5 years freighters will be unmanned, in 10 years passenger aircraft.
You heard it here first...
I wrote an unpublished short story, several years ago about unmanned passenger flights..need to see what i predicted as time frame.
glf
Joined: Jul 2002
Posts: 1,444
Likes: 55
From: Under a recently defunct flight path.
Have you been sniffing the shandy again? What on earth are you going on about???
How Iran hijacked a US stealth drone | TG Daily So just think what they could do with a sky full of the things in their favourite country...
Joined: Apr 2002
Posts: 125
Likes: 0
From: UK
It's far easier to use trains without a driver, but there are very few examples around. I think it will be a long time before the public will be happy to fly on an aircraft without a pilot, or to allow unmanned large freight aircraft to overfly their homes. A brake on technological advance is frequently applied by cultural issues.
I reckon 50 years before there are regular "unmanned" commercial flights.
I reckon 50 years before there are regular "unmanned" commercial flights.
Joined: May 2000
Posts: 4,343
Likes: 116
From: UK
How Iran hijacked a US stealth drone | TG Daily So just think what they could do with a sky full of the things in their favourite country...
The B Word is right...you've been on the Top Deck!
Joined: Jul 2002
Posts: 1,444
Likes: 55
From: Under a recently defunct flight path.
There seem to be been irony-bypass operations carried on a couple of folk lately... Or maybe I should have plastered my post with emoticons just to be sure it was flagged.
Joined: Sep 2004
Posts: 187
Likes: 0
From: Berkshire, UK
Regarding the time frame for pilotless aircraft, in the year in which I joined the RAF as a prospective pilot, 1957, the then-government forecast the end of manned aircraft.
This news caused the CAS, Sir Dermot Boyle as I recall, to visit to inspire us by stating that it would not affect us newly-recruited people. He did actually state that it was not beyond the imagination that the soon-to-be operational Lightning fighter would eventually take on the ground attack role. I don't know if that prediction was realised.
There are areas of aviation where unmanned aircraft will, and do, operate, but I think we should forget large aircraft carrying freight and passengers in the foreseeable future.
This news caused the CAS, Sir Dermot Boyle as I recall, to visit to inspire us by stating that it would not affect us newly-recruited people. He did actually state that it was not beyond the imagination that the soon-to-be operational Lightning fighter would eventually take on the ground attack role. I don't know if that prediction was realised.
There are areas of aviation where unmanned aircraft will, and do, operate, but I think we should forget large aircraft carrying freight and passengers in the foreseeable future.
