Good point… I clearly missed a few zeros off my estimate there 
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mine is OP- Then all letters (7)
Good idea:bulb: I didn’t think of that saves having to remember where it is 
Just checked back through the ANOs and registration and competency tests were introduced under ANO 2018 dated 30 May 2018 with an effective date of 30 Nov 2019 therefore the ANO 2019 revision that failed to get through Parliament does not affect the requirement i.e. registration and competency tests are a legal requirement.
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““electronic conspicuity device” means a device able to broadcast electronically information relating to the identification, location and height of an aircraft or drone”. Not just me with a megaphone then. Presumably someone will invet a tiny gizmo that will attach somewhere on the drone. Maybe they exist already.
If you’re flying a DJI drone and you’ve updated your firmware at any point in the last two years, you’ll have been broadcasting all of this information (unknowingly to most people) as part of your ‘electronic conspicuity’ for a long time. It’s the foundation of how AeroScope works.
For the curious, you only need a laptop running kismet and a particular WiFi card and you can pull the Drone ID, take off location, RTH location, speed, course, etc of any DJI drone within range, it’s fucking bullshit.
You can even spoof it and claim to be a different drone… But that’s a whole other subject (in a new thread please).
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I know it’s scary isn’t it
On a similar vein… The latest firmware update says, among other things, that it will add drone height information to any video. I can see the CAA and local ‘fuzz’ trawling thro the latest ‘you tube’ offerings in order to get their crime detection figures up.
I have yet to try this out.
However, a thought occurred and I have yet to look at the legislation… The maximum height says fly no higher than 400ft AGL (above ground level)
All the diagrams show the drone above land, mountains… What about above sea level? Is the 400ft maximum still legally enforceable at the coast, over water?
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Without going off topic, yes, details at http://dronescene.co.uk/400ft
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Thanks PS. It’s no higher than 400ft above the surface of the earth, including water. I won’t be challenging it in court then
19/20 after two wines… I think tchoo glasses ish OK when flying right ocifer? Now I’m totes legal!
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I am all for keeping within the Law, but I’m fecked if I am paying twice for the privilege !.
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Quite right,i would wait for the new eu rubbish,in jan,and then decide…
dead roos,the lot of em!!!
I’m thinking of waiting to see if anyone ever gets hauled for not being registered. 
… possibly.
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Agreed,there mate,if its true with the “NEW” EU regs then anything that fly’s,and has a camera,will have to be registered,sounds like total bollox to me,so,may do the same,and see what happens “if” someone gets caught…Also,if true it will be pointless getting a mavic mini…
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If nothing else you get £5million worth of public liability insurance. Always a good certificate to wave at Joe Public if he starts moaning about drones. And very useful if something should, (deity of choice) forbid, go wrong.
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Always good to have as well if you’re having a meet with several flyers like we have done in the past , arranged on these very pages
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The actual enforcement law, never made it through parliament. So, there really isn’t any law that can be enforced as such at this time.
West Yorkshire Police however, do have totally different view it seems. You can have all the documents you like, even an OSC, if they don’t want you flying, they’ll stuff you over for Breach of The Peace.
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That won’t hold up and if it does, a community resolution order is all they’ll give you.
Still prevents you from flying. The scenario was as follows:
Pilot turns up at Ferrybridge Power Station to film, with permissions, the destruction of a cooling tower.
Pilot was told that if he flew he would be arrested.
Doesn’t matter if that doesn’t hold up does it, the opportunity for the work has gone.
G.