The drone is probably an advanced model, judging from the high altitudes it was hovering at the other day.

A $100 drone can fly higher than the empire state building and i wouldn’t call that an advanced drone. Just a flight controller, 4 motors, some plastic props and an analog video feed.

Knowing the drone model helps you in some ways but not a silver bullet. To give you something else to think about, there’s both the connection from radio to drone, and there’s also a connection from drone video to pilots screen or goggles. Mess with the radio signal and they can’t control the drone. Mess with the video and they can’t know where to fly.

Advanced drones will have a “return to home” function so if the radio or video feed are interrupted you would just be doing something illegal for no gain. If it’s a low cost recreational drone then they might not have return to home and you might be able to get it to crash.

One fun thing to also consider is that there are digital and analog video signals. If they use an analog signal you can just listen in on that. The display will likely have some data feeds on it and those things might include the “home” direction and distance so you could find the pilot and have a friendly conversation. Or you could just watch the feed long enough to see where the drone lands. But this only works for analog. Digital signals likely will be encrypted.

Depending on where you live there might be laws about hovering the drone over people or buildings which you could report it to the police or whatever entity regulates the air space. Youd need to do the research for your area.

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