This one popped up recently
To me, the most obvious aspect is not that somebody is dumb enough to do this but how easy it would be to shut down all of UK’s airports with just a handful of drones from a High Street shop. Total expenditure a few k and you are unlikely to get caught. If you do it at the major airports concurrently, there will be nowhere to divert to.
They must have a Plan B which is to land the inbounds regardless of the drone presence.
I wonder what the plan is for a load of party baloons drifting in very light wind across Gatwick?
Peter wrote:
To me, the most obvious aspect is not that somebody is dumb enough to do this but how easy it would be to shut down all of UK’s airports with just a handful of drones from a High Street shop. Total expenditure a few k and you are unlikely to get caught. If you do it at the major airports concurrently, there will be nowhere to divert to.Youtube won’t show me the clip. (“Not available” or somesuch).They must have a Plan B which is to land the inbounds regardless of the drone presence.
Stockholm/Arlanda has been shut down four times this month due to drones. In one case two holding aircraft had to declare a fuel emergency and land anyway.
Is it visible now? If not I will upload a local copy.
Somebody spent a lot of time writing the software to create that visualisation.
It’s visible now @Peter, thanks.
After having studies only a bit of the technology behind all avionics technologies and protocols, I am pretty sure that it’s very easy to make planes give such wrong information to pilots (or autopilots), that they will have no idea what to do. GPS is not safe either, as we have seen in the news recently. Security has not been a requirement during the development of these technologies.
So not to give ideas but I have the feeling it’s not any more a question of if but only when some malicious person or group disrupts aviation using any of these methods. And drones are just another means.
Some ways to get drones…
Four curious ones here
Then you have high power RF solutions e.g.
So I wonder why these airports don’t seem to have anything, given that this sort of disruption must cost a few hundred k.
If I were in a commercial jet flying a coupled approach (or any FBW craft really) I’d really hope no one shoots a high powered RF blast in my general direction.
(I like how the video refers to the Netherlands as “Land of the Vikings”).
The RF spectrum is crowded enough already. Polluting the spectrum with RF weapons doesn’t help!
Shotgun?
Cobalt wrote:
Shotgun?
A bit of a legal problem, no? You can’t just shoot down things that you don’t like on your own, can you?
Wow, the narrator of in the video really, really needs to take a deep breath and calm down.
I don’t think the first option presented would work so well with DJI’s drones. Depending on configuration, upon loss of RC signal, they will either hover, or initiate Return-To-Home (granted, difficult of GPS is also blocked), or land.
