CAA Drone Registration costs money!

If your a commercial pilot drone insurance is already mandatory. As for flying a drone into a car, good luck with that, a 100mph+ carbon fibre drone couldn't even puncture a windscreen, and they have 6-7 times more kinetic energy that your typical consumer camera drone, a DJI matrice 200 which weighs 6kg and has a top speed of 50mph will do it, but then your not going to be flying that into a car windscreen.
 
MadMossy said:
As for flying a drone into a car, good luck with that, a 100mph+ carbon fibre drone couldn't even puncture a windscreen
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Dunno where you heard that but it's nonsense, it would go through the windscreen with ease.

To put it in perspective, even if the drone was hovering stationary in the road and the car hit it at 100MPH it would be enough energy to break the screen. If the drone was moving towards the car at 100MPH+ and the car was moving towards it at ~60MPH then bits of drone would most likely make it out the rear window!

Having said that, if somebody was deliberately going to try and hit a moving vehicle with a drone they would be better off targeting a light aircraft than a motor vehicle as their glass is much weaker, and most terrorists/anarchists would know this.

NB: Obviously this only applies to proper drones not little Argos ones.
 
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It was done by rotor riot on YouTube, vs a stationary vehicle using a custom built 6s quadcopter on an armattan camelion ti frame which are built for toughness (so much so they have a life time guarantee)

The drone impacted the windscreen but didn't go through, it did go through the rear window.
 
MadMossy said:
As for flying a drone into a car, good luck with that, a 100mph+ carbon fibre drone couldn't even puncture a windscreen, and they have 6-7 times more kinetic energy that your typical consumer camera drone, a DJI matrice 200 which weighs 6kg and has a top speed of 50mph will do it, but then your not going to be flying that into a car windscreen.
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I never mentioned windscreens, just that the Insurance advert features drones having accidents with cars.
Pretty sure a very small drone could cause damage.
 
A DJI Spark is 300g, a Mars Bar is 51g.

/waits for definition of “small”

(Remember that the fee only applies for drones 250g or more)
 
Who's gonna want to fly a £500 drone into a car.

My drones which I consider "small" are all sub 250g. The lightest being 31g,88g and finally 242g with my larger drones being 538g, 567g and finally 960g.

Now of those drones the only one considered a toy is the 88g one, the rest are all capable of high speeds and/or long range.
 
Who want to fly any drone into any car?!

If you are going to cause damage on purpose why why a small one?

Why is price a ceiling?!
 
Raymond Lin said:
Who want to fly any drone into any car?!

If you are going to cause damage on purpose why why a small one?

Why is price a ceiling?!
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Because the people this will impact are people like you or I. A criminal looking to actively cause harm isn't going to care less about the cost. I see no mention of retailers having to take details when an RC aircraft is purchased.

Even then it would only apply to the likes of DJI etc, what about someone who builds something from parts.
 
This was coming, and the government / associated agencies have demonstrated zero capability to come up with something that adds value and / or mitigates risk effectively. So it was always going to be an annual cost, and this isn't exactly a barrier. But yes, it still has the same flaws as every other licensing system - lots won't sign up and pay and it likely won't be enforced effectively. The lowest risk users will end up paying the most, but it is a small cost.
 
that's what, 2-3 cinema tickets? pretty sure any dedicated hobbyist is going to squeeze more than 9 hours of entertainment out of their craft in a year.

plenty of worse hobbies for entry costs.
 
As a commercial pilot I'm in favour of registration but it's all pointless unless the registration occurs at the point of sale. But then you could just import them pretty easily.

It's so difficult to police I'm not sure what they can do really.
 
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