Inspire 1 vs Cobra helicopter
Posted: Mon May 08, 2017 8:28 am
Hello all
Today was an expensive day for me.
Whilst operating my Inspire 1 pro on a job over water I hear the sound of an incoming heavy two bladed chopper. I was at 150 ft and felt a possible threat so descended to 50 feet as the incoming chopper was at between 200 and 300 feet. I then engaged return home which was at 50. When the cobra came within 100m of the Inspire it immediately lost all connection and began to slowly descend. It appeared to loose GPS positioning and just floated around until a watery impact. I made several attempts to recapture the craft with no luck it was all dead. I as operating about 4.5 mm from Darwin and the Cobra belonged to our US Marine friends.
I have two concerns here one do these military type helicopters possess the ability to jam and defend themselves against drones (most likely and probably reasonably. But the fact that he was transiting below 500 ft and to me well below the 400ft and in the drone Zone.
Has anyone else experienced anything like this? Or have any knowledge of the existence of air mounted drone jamming? Or am I the victim of of a DJI ism.
Beware of low flying aircraft!!
HS
Today was an expensive day for me.
Whilst operating my Inspire 1 pro on a job over water I hear the sound of an incoming heavy two bladed chopper. I was at 150 ft and felt a possible threat so descended to 50 feet as the incoming chopper was at between 200 and 300 feet. I then engaged return home which was at 50. When the cobra came within 100m of the Inspire it immediately lost all connection and began to slowly descend. It appeared to loose GPS positioning and just floated around until a watery impact. I made several attempts to recapture the craft with no luck it was all dead. I as operating about 4.5 mm from Darwin and the Cobra belonged to our US Marine friends.
I have two concerns here one do these military type helicopters possess the ability to jam and defend themselves against drones (most likely and probably reasonably. But the fact that he was transiting below 500 ft and to me well below the 400ft and in the drone Zone.
Has anyone else experienced anything like this? Or have any knowledge of the existence of air mounted drone jamming? Or am I the victim of of a DJI ism.
Beware of low flying aircraft!!
HS