AmexRuislip
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[Technology] I'm thinking of buying a Camera Drone - advice needed
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You won't find anywhere near the Amex with a DJI device. Stadiums are all on blocked list.
TV companies use a licensed operator.
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Okay, but i have seen atleast 2 in recent weeks, that have gone missing on FB in the Chichester area and both went across the A27 while seemly out of control, both were found well away from where their owners thought.
It's a disaster waiting to happen to the public IMO.
crookie
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I thought it was illegal to operate them over urban areas anyway, although no doubt impossible to enforce
Taybha
Whalewhine
What bloody snow
Check the current rules and anticipate they may get more stringent!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2016/04/18/drone-laws-in-the-uk--what-are-the-rules/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2016/04/18/drone-laws-in-the-uk--what-are-the-rules/
Yup, I'm in the 'ban' them camp too - apart from licenced operators with a legitimate / professional purpose for using them and full training and insurance.
Given how affordable they are becoming and people's seemingly insatiable need to film everything and upload it onto some sad-sack Facebook page or whatever, these things are going to become a real blight in the not too distant future, buzzing around all over the place. For me, they epitomise the height of selfishness, but so long as the dicks flying them are having fun that's okay I suppose.
Yes - if one crash-landed on my property I would take great delight in smashing it into tiny pieces with a 7lb club hammer.
Given how affordable they are becoming and people's seemingly insatiable need to film everything and upload it onto some sad-sack Facebook page or whatever, these things are going to become a real blight in the not too distant future, buzzing around all over the place. For me, they epitomise the height of selfishness, but so long as the dicks flying them are having fun that's okay I suppose.
Yes - if one crash-landed on my property I would take great delight in smashing it into tiny pieces with a 7lb club hammer.
LamieRobertson
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FatSuperman
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I like watching those drone-on-drone crime vids, with a big drone catching a little one in a net. Beautiful stuff.
I'm not really all that concerned about 'paedos' filming my kids, I don't think that's a very realistic use case for drone operators. I just find their buzzing really annoying, and since I only seem to encounter them when I'm at natural beauty spots, it's doubly irritating. I'm not sure if many ski resorts even let you use them now, so unless you are off-piste, you should expect a piste patrol dude to come after you fairly quickly.
My main concern is that horror scenario where the drone hits your child in the face and they lose vision in one eye... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hereford-worcester-34936739
I'm not really all that concerned about 'paedos' filming my kids, I don't think that's a very realistic use case for drone operators. I just find their buzzing really annoying, and since I only seem to encounter them when I'm at natural beauty spots, it's doubly irritating. I'm not sure if many ski resorts even let you use them now, so unless you are off-piste, you should expect a piste patrol dude to come after you fairly quickly.
My main concern is that horror scenario where the drone hits your child in the face and they lose vision in one eye... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hereford-worcester-34936739
Papa Lazarou
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I wondered what Ian Bell was up to nowadays
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I appreciate people might have legitimate reasons for using them, but if I realised one was hovering over my house at all, I would do what I could to destroy it.
Papa Lazarou
Living in a De Zerbi wonderland
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Lovely video. Thanks
BensGrandad
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I just remember the uproar when Google earth cars with cameras were touring the areas about the invasion of peoples privacy.
There was a drone near miss incident at Gatwick in July
http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/1559...isk_with_Gatwick_plane_near_miss__pilot_says/
http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/1559...isk_with_Gatwick_plane_near_miss__pilot_says/
BensGrandad
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According to a retired pilot interviewed on the news a modern jet plane has two engines and if the drone was able to take out 1 it could still operate and land on the other so they do not present a great risk to aircraft.
clippedgull
Hotdogs, extra onions
A year or so back a neighbour broke a drone that had an emergency landing in his garden... about a month later six of his front windows broke themselves overnight
I don't think the drone operator was happy.
Well that's alright then. Let them get flown over Heathrow as what's an engine between friends!
BensGrandad
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I dont think he was meaning the cost and was more concerned with what dangers to aircraft that they may pose.
middletoenail
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I didn't mention the cost. Ask most pilots that fly planes with more than one engine whether they have a habit of shutting one down, let alone what people that fly single engine aircraft think!