Flying drones is fun, but many people don’t realize how many crop-dusting aircraft and other low-flying aircraft share the skies with you. Can crop-dusting pilots see a drone to avoid hitting it? This shows you the answer.
Take a look and see why drone pilots have to do more than just look up in the air for other aircraft.
TESTING BY The Colorado Agricultural Aviation Assoc., Agribotix, UAS Colorado and Avian.
VIDEO by the Colorado Department of Agriculture Digital Media Program, James Amos.
Source: YouTube
This video has been around for weeks now. It is more confusing as the planes are always flying lower than the UAVs. Therefore they really have problems seeing them.
As a private drone flyer you should never fly in a field where a crop duster might be flying….. the commercial pilots know when and where they will be flying….. they have a radios
Most of the crop dusters are the last remaining cowboys here in the USA. As they fly when and where the want regardless of regulations …..
So flying a drone in a farm field …… will get you into trouble
The video states that the drones flew at 100 ft and the aircraft at 250 ft, but the video shows the opposite. Were the pilots intentionally told to look in the wrong direction?
A more useful test would be whether the manned aircraft pilots can see drones when they are on a collision course.