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Thankyou for writing this, I got on here to do the same. There are no drones around here (Ohio). What I see on TV from NJ is small and fuzzy in the night. Never in the day, why not? It would seem for sure that a skilled photographer with a long lens might be able to get a shot worth looking at. The world is waiting!
You can fly them at night with anti collision lighting.
It's a requirement to have anti collision lighting, so these are probably not foreign spy's or teenagers playing around. Probably UAS testing for military. Small UAS is a super hot subject with the US military right now due to the tactics changing in the Ukraine/Russia war and they're adapting as fast as possible, so lots of tests.They need them, so that they can see where they're going!
that used to be the case, but not anymore. to fly at night you need to retake the online part 107 recert exam that covers flying at night. you've probably already taken it with the night flying questions if you're current, it was on my last one. other than that, just make sure you have really good lights on your drone. most lights that claim to be seen for 3 statute miles are crap and can't be seen that far. it also has to have a good strobe rate.
I recertified 3 years ago. Flying at night was still prohibited because the human eye can not detect the distance when looking at a light.
Mystery solved: just Springsteen fans hoping to spot The Boss.
the 3 mile light rule hasn't changed, but the night flying is now allowed. the 107 exam changed over around 2021, so you probably just missed it on the last go round. if you're in the us you need to recert every 24 months now. no big deal if it lapsed, you can still do the online test and carry on from whatever date you took it.
If I can take the test online, I will definitely go for it.
it's through the FAA and it's a much easier process than the old way of recertifying.
My guess exactly…and I worked in the classified government sector a long time. Chinese/Iranian spy drones wouldn’t be lighted…and the large ones require registration and licensing and all that as opposed to s all consumer drones. It’s the government doing something that they don’t want to talk about.
That’s my take and I work currently with large UAS. Theres a lot of small UAS development right now and with the NOTAMs up in the areas that all this hype got started for an event that leads me to believe they’re testing equipment and don’t want to talk about that capability.
There are no drones here in Beautiful Downtown Quicksburg, VA. However, we do go to bed with the chickens. . . . Grin
yah, this seems reasonable. it’s some sort of condoned activity. they just don’t want to disclose what. remember how fast we went directly to shooting down that balloon
And part of it is the power of suggestion and mass hysteria likely.
Not prohibited for the military. Years ago many people were seeing bright lights moving at speed that were too fast to be a helicopter and so put down as UFO's. Turned out it was night testing of the Apache attack helicopters and the new night vision for pilots - which resulted in a lot of crashes and pilot deaths.
