Drones over gatwick..

StriderX · 30 Dec 2018 at 21:48

Rroff said:
One possibility could be they went into panic mode over some probably misc drone sightings due to supposed credible reports recently that ISIS was encouraging drone based attacks and that some of the original planners of drone based attacks in Syria are supposedly in the wind and possibly in Europe and they realised they had no way to deal with it and the repercussions if it had been a real attack under those circumstances would have been unavoidable.

Would explain the large amount of rifles on the scene.

GSXR Gaz Mc · 31 Dec 2018 at 13:57

yet another drone blame story.....not that the fact that people climbed the severn bridge..

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-46720717

h4rm0ny · 31 Dec 2018 at 14:05

GSXR Gaz Mc said:
yet another drone blame story.....not that the fact that people climbed the severn bridge..

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-46720717

What a ****. I mean if nothing else, the point of a drone is that you don't have to climb up a giant bridge yourself because the drone can ******* fly!

Idiot in all kinds of ways.

Jokester · 31 Dec 2018 at 14:06

I would assume he was using the drone to film himself at the top.

h4rm0ny · 31 Dec 2018 at 17:41

Jokester said:
I would assume he was using the drone to film himself at the top.

Oh yes - that makes sense.

UberTiger · 31 Dec 2018 at 19:55

Jokester said:
I would assume he was using the drone to film himself at the top.

Gotta get that sweet YouTube vlog footage somehow!

Brizzles said:
Put a giant net over Gatwick, that'll keep drones out

Or they could build a big wall. Maybe reinforced with iron. With ripples in it to interfere with the drone signal. They could call it...The Iron Curtain

jakedude182 · 7 Jan 2019 at 23:23

just spotted this https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-46787730

'Registered drone users will also need to take an online competency test.'

So if someone fails the competency test but also owns a drone which is most likely, they are never going to be able to fly their drone again lol

dowie · 7 Jan 2019 at 23:26

Sounds fair enough.

GSXR Gaz Mc · 7 Jan 2019 at 23:31

now u get the sun newspaper doing stupid videos like this

Housey · 7 Jan 2019 at 23:39

jakedude182 said:
just spotted this https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-46787730

'Registered drone users will also need to take an online competency test.'

So if someone fails the competency test but also owns a drone which is most likely, they are never going to be able to fly their drone again lol

Excellent, cheap 2nd hand drones for me.

StriderX · 8 Jan 2019 at 06:01

What about 20.01 KG drones, gotteeem.

and any competent person looking to illegally use something still isn't going to be deterred by this, so at best it stops copy cat morons.

hux · 8 Jan 2019 at 06:23

mcast said:
After listening to brexit for a month, I'd rather have radio controlled reindeer.

Like this?

robj20 · 8 Jan 2019 at 06:36

What stops you building your own and not doing any of the legal required stuff?

dowie · 8 Jan 2019 at 06:41

robj20 said:
What stops you building your own and not doing any of the legal required stuff?

Noting, it’s sort of retrospective, you might get caught. Likewise what stops you from just getting in a car and driving it without all of the legal stuff like a license/insurance?

robj20 · 8 Jan 2019 at 06:42

dowie said:
Noting, it’s sort of retrospective, you might get caught. Likewise what stops you from just getting in a car and driving it without all of the legal stuff like a license/insurance?

That's kind of my point. All this legislation does nothing to stop the idiots and people up to no good, it just impacts the normal people that aren't doing anything wrong in the first place.

Skillmister · 8 Jan 2019 at 06:43

StriderX said:
What about 20.01 KG drones, gotteeem.

and any competent person looking to illegally use something still isn't going to be deterred by this, so at best it stops copy cat morons.

As with all of these things, all it does is impose restrictions and make life difficult for the legit owners while making no difference whatsoever to the people using them to break the law.

dowie · 8 Jan 2019 at 06:44

robj20 said:
That's kind of my point. All this legislation does nothing to stop the idiots and people up to no good, it just impacts the normal people that aren't doing anything wrong in the first place.

Really? Do you think the same about driving licences and speed limits etc...?

robj20 · 8 Jan 2019 at 06:48

dowie said:
Really? Do you think the same about driving licences and speed limits etc...?

Yes of course. Normal people understand the consequences so drive within the law. Idiots still speed and race no matter what. You still get people that drive without a license even though that's illegal, so these drone laws wont change anything if i terrorist wants to use one they wont see the laws and think "no its illegal" they will just do it anyway.

dowie · 8 Jan 2019 at 06:52

I think you’d find we’d have rather a lot of issues on our roads without them and people are actually prosecuted for driving offences etc...

robj20 · 8 Jan 2019 at 06:57

Only because its easy to catch them ie ANPR. Drones, with all the different methods of controlling them i don't see how they could catch someone that didn't want to be caught.

Buy the cheapest kit drone possible, load a flight plan onto it so it goes round the airport then set it off. I just don't see how these rules will make any difference.