[NSRCA-discussion] How High Can Drones Fly

[John Ford]

I am pretty sure they can. Saw a guy pull up to the field once who had a rather large one (4 ft rotor to rotor) and he had it up beyond visual range and from the view on the screen, he was somewhere between 3000 and higher, easily. He wasn't able to go far or do much due to battery capacity, but still. 
Shocking though, he only had some "barely get it back" park-flyer modeling experience, but no flying or airspace knowledge. He was just "running a business". 

A new breed…

John


On Feb 11, 2015, at 7:32 AM, Ron Hansen via NSRCA-discussion <nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org> wrote:

> I just saw a commercial on Fox News promoting an upcoming Gretchen Carlson show where she asks the question why do drones fly as high as 5000 ft?
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> I wouldn’t think the run of the mill quad copter could fly that high but I have no idea.
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> Not to mention you couldn’t see it at that height.
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> Food for thought.
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> Thanks
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