capri-boy

shouldnt be flying in built up areas no matter what height tbh its in the rules about being 50ms from people and building :)

defo some nobs about flying drones we had a guy recently caught scaling a bridge cos hes drone was out of juice so decided to climb up the bridge with quad in hand to get a picture !! what a numb nuts :(

tbf 98% of flyers ive met have commonsense

The drone thing.... yeah. The latest 'demon' to scare the people with.

We had a mass panic shutdown of a whole damn airport for a single drone....(i hate that term..they are NOT drones ) and immediate clamp down of laws. To keep us all 'safe'. Stupid really. There was no need to tighten laws when the original act broke the existing laws. Just restricts the sensible to stop the irresponsible from being irresponsible. That doesn;t work, and just makes life less free for the law abiding while having no effect on the ones who ignore the laws.

So lets make more restrictions, ones which will not be enforced on the majority of cases anyway. Just put a teep penalty on anyone causing an accident and let the sensible be.

But that's not how the UK works now.

It's no longer possible to advertise junk food on the tube becuase it makes kids fat. Who puts hte money in their hands to buy the stuff?

You can be prosecuted as a motorist based on a cyclist videoing you...yet the reverse is not true when you film cyclists ignoring red lights, going the wrong way along one way streets, cycling on the pavement or riding at night with no lights.

The law ignores the law breakers whre effort is required to enforce the law. Instead...they will opt for easy cash raising approaches. Prosecute by post or when Joe-public provides the info. So expect drone taxes through licencing and complusory insurance, because then you can be prosecuted by post if you fail to renew or harassed in public by people demanding to see your flight permit.

I won't disagree that policing in the UK, thanks in part to ever shrinking budgets through austerity and the incumbent governing party's 'philosophies', targets easy crime - speed camera's in endless miles of cones for non existent road workers etc I don't think this is a non issue at all.

I've hit birds in light aircraft, at ~100mph - thankfully none ever made it through the cockpit.  Others we're not so lucky and it's no easy feet landing an aircraft with a smashed canopy and bits of bird splattered across what's left and you.  And whilst the chances of hitting one are small, they exist and stupid operators raise those risks massively.  A quad / drone / heli hitting a cockpit runs the risks of bringing an aircraft down.  Hit the tail rotor of a heli and the results could be the same.  Should one ever get sucked into the turbines on a jet engine it's highly likely they'd lost the engine - and whilst pilots are trained to fly with one (on a twin) or unequal thrust with more  it's not ideal is it - especially during the critical phases of flight - ie take off and landing - the very points where they're more likely to meet a quad / drone etc.   Look at the fareham crash to see the damage one small jet can do coming down in the wrong place - then extrapolate that to something much bigger, with more fuel on board as well as passengers.  

Should the CAA and Government decide to to tighten down further they'll be no complaints from me.  AS responsible owners I'd suggest calling out, naming and shaming the idiots that fly irresponsibly.