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Against a commercial airliner you'd pretty much have to be flying right near the runway of the airport, but for a GA Cessna those can be flying pretty much anyw

Against a commercial airliner you'd pretty much have to be flying right near the runway of the airport, but for a GA Cessna those can be flying pretty much anywhere. I can easily see how a small plane could accidentally hit a drone.

xstephen95x 8y ago
yeah and on 9/11 they had to fly right near the twin towers.
- pavel_lishin 8y ago
  That's a good point - you don't even have to kill anyone to effect a pretty significant scare. How much would it cost to buy enough drones to shut down an airport by having them hover in front of the runways? And how quickly could they be taken down?
  - kungtotte 8y ago
    Unless the drones have onboard AI, all you'd need is to jam the signal. It can't be that hard to shut down drone frequencies seeing as how they have gear to shut down cell phones (to prevent them being used to set off IEDs).
    - pavel_lishin 8y ago
      In my particular movie theater plot, I'm assuming they've been loaded with firmware to just keep station at a particular location in space. Plus, how long would it take to get signal jamming equipment to the runway? Can it be used safely around an airport? Etc, etc. Novel-research stuff.
      - taborj 8y ago
        They'll run out of battery before someone gets equipment in place to jam the signal.
      - therein 8y ago
        As the technology stands right now, the "fun" will be limited with the battery life. If you had reasonable battery life, and on-board independent flight capabilities, then you can probably play tag with the staff all day all night.
  - greedo 8y ago
    Shotguns. 12 gauge, shooting at a stationary target. Easy.
jessaustin 8y ago
If you're talking about the Cessna planes I think you're talking about, this test doesn't apply because those don't travel at 238 mph. Actually I think that speed is typically subject to altitude requirements that would exclude most drones? But also we're talking about tiny objects traveling through a giant 3-D space. If they meet, it was on purpose.
- deckar01 8y ago
  4D. Space + time. The odds of a collision are astronomically low outside of an airport's restricted zone. There are 1.5 billion cubic miles of atmosphere between the Earth and the maximum altitude of a commercial jet (7.8 miles).
  - Dylan16807 8y ago
    In 4D the drone is not "travelling through", it's instead a static and enormously long curve that has to avoid touching any other aircraft curve at any point.

xstephen95x 8y ago

yeah and on 9/11 they had to fly right near the twin towers.

pavel_lishin 8y ago
That's a good point - you don't even have to kill anyone to effect a pretty significant scare. How much would it cost to buy enough drones to shut down an airport by having them hover in front of the runways? And how quickly could they be taken down?
- kungtotte 8y ago
  Unless the drones have onboard AI, all you'd need is to jam the signal. It can't be that hard to shut down drone frequencies seeing as how they have gear to shut down cell phones (to prevent them being used to set off IEDs).
  - pavel_lishin 8y ago
    In my particular movie theater plot, I'm assuming they've been loaded with firmware to just keep station at a particular location in space. Plus, how long would it take to get signal jamming equipment to the runway? Can it be used safely around an airport? Etc, etc. Novel-research stuff.
    - taborj 8y ago
      They'll run out of battery before someone gets equipment in place to jam the signal.
    - therein 8y ago
      As the technology stands right now, the "fun" will be limited with the battery life. If you had reasonable battery life, and on-board independent flight capabilities, then you can probably play tag with the staff all day all night.
- greedo 8y ago
  Shotguns. 12 gauge, shooting at a stationary target. Easy.

jessaustin 8y ago

If you're talking about the Cessna planes I think you're talking about, this test doesn't apply because those don't travel at 238 mph. Actually I think that speed is typically subject to altitude requirements that would exclude most drones? But also we're talking about tiny objects traveling through a giant 3-D space. If they meet, it was on purpose.

deckar01 8y ago
4D. Space + time. The odds of a collision are astronomically low outside of an airport's restricted zone. There are 1.5 billion cubic miles of atmosphere between the Earth and the maximum altitude of a commercial jet (7.8 miles).
- Dylan16807 8y ago
  In 4D the drone is not "travelling through", it's instead a static and enormously long curve that has to avoid touching any other aircraft curve at any point.