Thanks for pinging me. I hadn’t noticed the comment to me by GUNSLINGR3 until just now.
Although you have to admit that KARMA has bitten you in the butt. At least the other poster spelled HELICOPTER correctly. You might want to be careful about calling someone else an idiot (even though I could see why).
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GUNSLINGR3, did you not notice all the references to the footage being provided by a DRONE ?
It has been my experience that a FLIR does not provide the kind of video this thread is about. This was obviously a normal VIDEO CAMERA.
FLIR footage would have a more contrasted/black and white only look, and the gunshots would have appeared as bright white blips.
did you not notice all the references to the footage being provided by a DRONE ?
Yes, and there are also reports saying it is a helicopter. I think the drone reports are jumping to a conclusion.
You have to get pretty low for ground wash to kick up snow, well within the zoom capabilities of the FBIs optics.
The main reason I believe it was a helicopter was how it maneuvered the first traffic stop. The overall camera angle was lower than drones are operated as they circled the truck. But as importantly was how the camera speed matched the fleeing truck. You don’t really do that in a drone because you’re flying much higher looking down through a straw. Very easy to do in a helicopter, and did you notice how the camera angle handled the approach of the truck to the curve and the roadblock? That’s a pilot looking at everything, not someone flying a drone in my opinion.
Drones are great, but a helicopter with eyes onboard is superior, and is was planned and you have the best assets on hand. I wouldn’t be surprised if there was a drone at 10k ft too. But I see this as camera footage from a helicopter.
You’re correct on FLIR, there’s a name for that ball camera (that has all of the above), and I can’t think of it. I remember reading about the fight to get the IR helicopter footage from Waco released (to show if the Feds where shooting while the building burned).