I’ve just spent the last 90 minutes reading consultation paper from front to back.
This whole thing will be implemented, no matter what anyone as to say.
To be completely honest, if as a drone pilot, I stick to the rules then I have nothing to worry about, which is the same as any other laws and or legislation.
When I was a young lad (some 35-ish years ago) I was taught some very simple life rules, one of which was -
“If you want to take a chance at running the gauntlet, be prepared to get chased”
In simple terms, break the rules = face the penalty.
Everything we do is tracked or recorded by CCTV, our phones, tablets, reward cards, vehicle satnavs, smart speakers, etc… etc… and that’s what we know about, never mind what we don’t know about.
I know my post with ruffle a few feathers, but that’s life.
To be honest I have lost the will to live. There are all kinds of dangerous things going on and non of them have anything to do with drones.
I had said before I used to fly hang gliders and didn’t have to deal with all this toing and froing with stupid regulations. A few idiots have ruined it for all of us trying to be clever and they know who they are. These changes will just cause anarchy. Stop people flying over police stations etc and let the rest of us fly around not causing any problems.
Completely agree. None of this has anything to do with pilots causing this new rule it’s just purely the public that don’t understand drone regulations and that if we are not close to them or on their property we are in our rights to fly how we want. Unfortunately the CAA clowns are probably never going to change this rule
One thing I fail to see is this security nonsense they keep mentioning. What security are they pertaining to ? We have laws to deal with security. One other thing, is there any safety difference between a sub 250gm drone with a camera and a sub 250gm drone that doesn’t have a camera ? I’d have thought it takes the same skill set to fly either, yet the CAA are wanting to relax the requirements to fly one without a camera ( or should that be increase the requirements to fly one with a camera ?)
It is true. They make a fortune from all of us pilots combined together and yet all they do with it is tell us how to use our drones ( which would be ok if the rules where not absolute jokes). Much more concerned about the public complaints than the complaints of the pilots that pay them.
I predict that much like automated moving traffic tickets, a central DB will be used to auto issue FPNs for any flights they deem to be outside ‘the rules’
And of course those systems never make mistakes do they …
