Pilot, Engineer, Publisher & CEO, IMHO you're certainly on track. Walter Mitty would be hard pressed to match your reality!
Gilly
I can think of a whole lot of terrorist applications for these things....which will probably
bring federal licensing into it. Railroad photography with them will be banned when
the first cluck flies one into the engineer's face through the loco windshield.
The only "drones" that have a flight ceiling that high belong to the military and wouldn't be anywhere near civilian aircraft.
Sorry Matt... Dead wrong. This one can go to 11,000 feet with the right conditions although the company does not recommend going above 400 feet.
http://www.thepocketdrone.com/
The Pocket Drone can fly over 5,000 feet from where the pilot is standing, and theoretically can fly up to approximately 11,000 feet. At higher altitudes, the air gets thinner, which will make control more difficult. Please note that in the US the FAA recommends restricting your altitude to no higher than 400 feet above the ground. Flying above that height will bring you into airspace with manned aviation such as helicopters and planes, and can be highly dangerous.
Watch this high altitude test and crash of a commercially available drone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfxdeRx2fLA
Wow. A whole 20 min of air time. Not worth the cash...
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