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Drone took pics at KLIA...OMG.

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It is dangerous. If drone is sucked in the turbine, it would be disaster.
 
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Certainly would be for the drone... but not so good for canopies or windshields.
 
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and engines.. It could take out an engine if it hits just right. Birds do it often.
 
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This is a really stupid use of a hobby drone. If it keeps up, they'll get banned outright.

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I nearly impulse-bought one of these things a couple months back but since then I've seen some of the things these idiots are doing with them and the resulting public perception of them and I sorta lost interest. Some moron brought one home having never flown one before and tried to fly it from his umpteenth story apartment balcony over New York or something. I saw the vid, he was crashing it into skyscrapers and bouncing it off windows, etc. No wonder folks hate 'em.

On the other hand check out this video a responsible pilot was able to make with one:


Here's another made by Howard Rockliffe who's using one professionally:
 
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I agree with you. Like a very sharp knife, it is very useful and dangerous at the same time, depends on the user.
 
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jtanabodee said:
it is very useful and dangerous at the same time, depends on the user.
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EXACTLY!

I will admit that during my career in US Naval Intelligence I flew (not personally but ordered missions) UAVs over airfields…"adversary airfields" that is. That said, we NEVER took the chances that the gentleman at KLIA did with resect to safety of flight. As many of you probably know, many of the worlds aerodromes are "dual use"–civilian commercial airports and military air bases that share the runways. (Honolulu International is one of the most famous - flights often are lined up behind a couple of F-15s and one gets great views of their takeoff.) I can neither confirm nor deny anything…I leave it to your conjecture whether or not UAVs are/were ever used over dual use airfields.

That said, no "cool" photo or even intelligence imagery is worth the lives of civilians in a commercial airliner. We military professionals plan missions with safety of flight a paramount consideration. I can see from Mr. Rockliffe's excellent videos (posted by JRobinson - thanks for that) that some civilians practice the same professionalism and responsible airmanship. I applaud them while I condemn grossly irresponsible private drone use like that seen above. It's amateur and irresponsible and it is going to get people killed.

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