Ya the minute the flew them over Picatinny, FBI will certainly be involved. It is a no fly zone.
Drones overhead tonight (many)
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they just put up the flight restriction from surface to 2,000 feet - it is kinda hard to miss that airspace with Broadway and Sparta VOR - but that traffic is high.
Although any low loitering over any military installation is a bad idea....
Larger circle is picatinny, smaller one is trump national golf course.
Solid blue line to the right is Newark's airspace.
Another 4 years of osprey rattling my house, and having to park where all the birds like to nest in the plane.
See last line of NOTAM for reason
Red Mosquito
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Captain Brainstorm
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If I were in a situation in NJ where the target was 200ft from an outbound property line and 450 from a dwelling, you’d better believe I’d shoot it down. Where I live though, a jet from my pressure washer would do the trick.
Nice that he encouraged you to commit a federal felony crime. Until somebody writes a specific law they’re considered aircraft. Which you’re also not supposed to shoot down.
So last night my towns local FB page absolutely exploded with drone reports EVERYWHERE. Over the mall, over my towns local park.....video after video....and im like....JFC, these people are taking videos of AIRPLANES!
I would call myself something of a plane spotter.......I can walk outside of my house and I can ID most planes just by sound....Almost all jet liners that pass over my house on their way to newark are at 5000ft, but occasionally one will pass at 4000'......I can tell just by the sound.....Point being, im like REALLY aware of whats flying around overheard.....I don't think most people have paid any attention until someone said there are drones flying around....Now people are paying attention and realizing that at 6pm on a weeknight....the skies above NJ are just as busy as the highways are. There is never a minute over my house where there isnt a plane on its way to either Newark, Morristown, Teterboro, many small airports (caldwell, Lincoln Park, etc) as well as JFK and LaGuardia.
So if you are looking for or are concerned with drones, id recommend getting one of the flight tracking apps, I use this one https://www.flightradar24.com/
You will at least know if what you are looking at is a plane or not. MOST every plane will have its transponder on and show up, sometimes military planes won't
I would call myself something of a plane spotter.......I can walk outside of my house and I can ID most planes just by sound....Almost all jet liners that pass over my house on their way to newark are at 5000ft, but occasionally one will pass at 4000'......I can tell just by the sound.....Point being, im like REALLY aware of whats flying around overheard.....I don't think most people have paid any attention until someone said there are drones flying around....Now people are paying attention and realizing that at 6pm on a weeknight....the skies above NJ are just as busy as the highways are. There is never a minute over my house where there isnt a plane on its way to either Newark, Morristown, Teterboro, many small airports (caldwell, Lincoln Park, etc) as well as JFK and LaGuardia.
So if you are looking for or are concerned with drones, id recommend getting one of the flight tracking apps, I use this one https://www.flightradar24.com/
You will at least know if what you are looking at is a plane or not. MOST every plane will have its transponder on and show up, sometimes military planes won't
I went back last night to see if there was anything weird going on with the state police helicopters....didnt notice anything over my town....but something was going on near Rahway.....first the state police helicopter came in and landed, then 3 news helicopters were hovering overhead for a while....40x speed
ugh, looks like it was a fire 🙁
edisonreporter.com
ugh, looks like it was a fire 🙁
Five-Alarm Fire Engulfs Senior Living Facility On Inman Ave - Edison Reporter
EDISON, NJ – A devastating five-alarm fire ripped through a five-story brick senior living building at 1061 Inman Avenue in Edison, New Jersey, at approximately 6:45pm.
edisonreporter.com
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One of the cool things when I worked in the city on the West side was watching liners lined up for landing at Newark. It's like clock work. Same with take off. You'd see basically over a dozen liners lined up continuously.
Red Mosquito
Formerly RLB the Scrapple Boy
I love this app, been using it for a while for similar reasons. I just like to see what’s overhead.
I didn’t know about the playback feature though, that’s pretty cool!
Robin
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thanks for posting that app @UtahJoe - when we were out west this past summer, @2Julianas was telling us/showing us as we were trying to figure out the planes flying over us
“We never found out what the actual drones were,” Serge said. “It’s kind of a mystery. We were asking around about that, but nobody knew anything.”
NJ.com
A medevac helicopter was unable to pick up a seriously injured patient because of the mysterious drones flying near the landing zone....www.facebook.com
Most likely people seeing airplanes and thinking they are drones...but if you tell the medivac helicopter..."hey we might have drones flying around" and its dark outside...they are not going to take a chance crashing into one. I know I wouldn't if I was a pilot.
qclabrat
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Very cool, wish I had this last night at about 9pm when a house shaking chopper flew over. Is there a way to see past flights?
you might have to have the paid version like I do, but yes, it has playback....or just tell me roughly where you live
actually....
S76 is a big helicopter, flying under 2000 ft at 165 knots, you would certainly feel this go by if your house is near that track
Red Mosquito
Formerly RLB the Scrapple Boy
UTC though, so 9p here should be ~2am UTC on 12/4
There's an astronomy FB page which has blown up since the aurora borealis happened. It's great that more people are looking up, but man some of those folks have never seen a cloud, or contrail, or plane, or star, or planet....
Point being, your average observer is pretty often unreliable.