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> But when they suddenly see smaller drone, their pilot-brain thinks it's a plane, but because it is much smaller than a plane, they think it must be far away.
by tejohnso 5y ago
> But when they suddenly see smaller drone, their pilot-brain thinks it's a plane, but because it is much smaller than a plane, they think it must be far away.
I think this neglects the training and capability of the pilot to the point of being insulting. You're basically saying that a (let's say) 15 year veteran of the U.S. Air Force can't tell the difference between a small drone and a plane, doesn't understand basic physics / optics, and when uncertain, assumes that anything observed must be a plane because "all we see are planes". Preposterous.
Also, even if that were the case, it's pretty hard to explain away when the same object is being observed from multiple angles, with multiple humans, and multiple high precision sensors, with all observations confirming the same conclusions.
- cma 5y agoWhen stabilized against the ocean some of the things the pilots said were pulling impossible G levels of acceleration were actually flying in a straight line: https://www.metabunk.org/data/MetaMirrorCache/49d95870dca331fa57d4d6d745b24945.gif https://www.metabunk.org/data/MetaMirrorCache/49d95870dca331... Some of the other high g-force examples turned out to be an FOV change of the camera footage when toggling IR.
- ghostly_s 5y agowhat does traveling in a straight line have to do with acceleration?
- cma 5y agoStraight line with continuous speed has no acceleration. They were saying it violently swerved around inducing acceleration/g-forces from turning.
- ghostly_s 5y agoThat doesn't seem to be the claim the paper is analyzing, they are looking at the forces when gaining elevation to the flight level of the pilots and in circling around the pilots at a several-mile delta as confirmed by radar data.