Yea!
And we have proof that it has happened as well.
How would you even know if your drone was hijacked?
You would likely think it was a glitch and just flew off, never to be found.
There "could" be dozens of hijacks on this very forum and nobody would know.
You would have the telemetry recorded from the drone, lat/lon would would indicate something was off. Walking around with a GPS spoofer would be like walking around with a cell phone jammer, someone would notice and that's not something that you would want to be caught with. People with GPS navigaton i their cars would spot it almost immediately. I would be surprised if a single user on this forum had the GPS spoofed.How would you even know if your drone was hijacked?
You would likely think it was a glitch and just flew off, never to be found.
There "could" be dozens of hijacks on this very forum and nobody would know.
You would have the telemetry recorded from the drone, lat/lon would would indicate something was off. Walking around with a GPS spoofer would be like walking around with a cell phone jammer, someone would notice and that's not something that you would want to be caught with. People with GPS navigaton i their cars would spot it almost immediately. I would be surprised if a single user on this forum had the GPS spoofed.
Disagree. The offending transmitter would simply wait for open air before transmitting. Heterodyne is unlikely, but if there is heterodyne, the transmitter would simply resend the packets that were not received. Transmitter strength doesn't have that much to do with it. The transmitter only needs the power to be heard by the bird. Hacking is probably more involved than using a big transmitter. Cheersi agree, and the signal would have to be more powerful than that from the RC which means that it wouldn't likely be a long range capability. Jamming is a more likely scenario, but again a single strong enough to jam is going to interfere with other commercial signals and that can get the FCC down on you in a hurry. Most likely cause of a lost bird in the foreseeable future is, IMO, pilot error!
That's about the least likely explanation.I am buying a Mavic in the next few weeks. I did have a Xiro V and it took off without me controlling it . Instead of looking into a DJI drone I decided to buy another Xiro . @ flights in it took off also . Checkout the 2 flight logs . The exact flightpath . Went looking for both and came up empty handed . Wonder if both of mine was hijacked ?