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Wintermute  ·  3504 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Drones cause fire planes to abandon fire.

Heh. Maybe "hobbyist" wasn't the best word; working at NASA sets the "hobbyist" bar pretty high. Regardless, there aren't many groups here that can keep a telemetry lock on a UAV at 11,000 feet without either satellite links or very expensive dedicated radio assets.

I wonder if you can buy a sat-com equipped UAV off the shelf these days.