Hi All, I’ve been kindly invited to this group by Milkmanchris after a post I put on Facebook regarding photographs I managed to take above and around the humber bridge, Hull UK. I admit that I flew above the 400ft ASL that is implied in the drone code however, there has been a big debate regarding if I broke the code or not. Many people on the forum had some negative attitude towards the post and some positive.
Could anyone throw in their opinions regarding the height restriction in the UK above objects when flying drones.
I know in the USA there 400ft height is to sea level or 400ft max altitude above a structure or object.
I have attached a link regarding this video
Below is the Facebook link regarding the post I put up
Could this rule apply in the UK apart from the 400ft above ground?
Typical some idiot giving us law abiding fliers a bad name. The code was perfectly clear from day one that’s why they had clarify it.
Where was I going with this. Buggered if I know.
Welcome to the site fella.
It’s actually the surface so unlike our yank cousins we can’t do 400ft above Blackpool Tower.
I do not now actively go on any other Forum, Facebook, etc because of all the back biting and bitching that goes on within the various groups.
I had one guy who got very personal over a flight I done in Tromso in excess of 400ft (nearly 3 years ago), soon shot him down, saying that at that time that “no 400 feet height restrictions were not in place at that time”, so what the f@@k was he talking about !
Haha that’s what it felt like. Obviously it’s something I wouldn’t do again, but good to know for the future. Do you think the laws will ease for recreational flyers or get more stringent?
exactly what I said 1,500 feet in Norway, and I should add the ONLY time !.
(Max Height of Mavic Pro)
(Still taken from my original video, from a post last year)
While on the subject of height limits?.
When I was on my Cruise a few weeks back, I had to watch the height limits of each Country I visited, as they all differed (Spain, France ,Italy ).
So a word of warning to anyone travelling abroad, check the height limits of the country you are visiting.
And. also the distance you can fly away from your take off point.
No. It’s the surface. So if you are in a valley then as you take off and go 400ft up. Then as you fly up the valley side your height can increase as the higher up the side of the valley the drone goes. So if yo are at the bottom of a 300ft hill and you hover above the crown of the hill you can be 700ft higher than where you are standing.
