I think he meant £200,000 … hence the police paid for their house!
1 Like
Can’t get a terrace for that these days.
You can in Chernobyl…
Yep I’m also in London and once the police did come out to see me as well but they were actually very nice
I came across the Uk auditing , you tube videos recently,they spread the word that photography isn’t a crime and although they generally annoy the life out of the police, they also fly their sub 249g drones wherever they can legally do so.
The reaction from police is varied but rest assured the word is being spread.
Take a look at “pj audits” and “dj audits”
2 Likes
I know the “rules” have changed but none of the public in my experience know the first thing about any drone rules. Ask anyone in the street and they will not have a clue only that they feel threatened by them and are paranoid about being filmed.
3 Likes
Try to get the police to come to your house after a burglary and you will wait a week. Priorities are all messed up.
2 Likes
More and more do, I seemed to have moved away from the usual questions:
"how far, how fast, how high, how much?’
To more often than not ‘so is that under 250g?’
3 Likes
Blow their minds again when they learn there are different rules depending on what you’ve got and where you’re at.
There’s been a bunch of discussion fairly recently about the auditing phenomenon. Most of them I watch 5-10 minutes of when they’re interacting with police etc. and just have to turn it off because they’re braindead belligerent arseholes and actually don’t know the rules themselves that they’re trying to insist on to police (even if the police in the scenario don’t know them very well either), like a guy insisting he has the right to fly over an emergency response when the ambulance crews had an issue with it - copper cited proximity to buildings and people despite it being a mini 2 which was obviously wrong, but they obviously do actually have the right to shut you down around emergency responses.
The two you’ve named get a relative pass from me, but they do also sometimes not quite grasp some of the nuances even if their understanding has been improving recently from what I’ve seen.
2 Likes
Anyone that bangs on to me about being photographed will be referred to and asked about their stance on being photoed/filmed by the security cameras dotted around out streets and in shops and lifts … 
3 Likes
Had a PCSO come over to us the other week at Chesterfield Bando. I was flying at the time (goggles on), Callum said “we’ve got company”. Landed, took goggles off, saw what I thought was a police officer… Heart sank (1.5 hours driving, etc)… He was only looking to motorbikes to be removed as it annoys the locals. Said the owner was in Spain, and wasn’t going to move us on. Then he spent 10 mins watching a few flights through Callums goggles, and loved it, telling us how the police use them too!
He basically said “Well looks like you know what you’re doing with all that equipment, know the rules better than me, continue lads!” 
6 Likes
- the amount of people with phones in parks… They could ALL be recording people… Insane argument really
2 Likes
There was a councillor I think from Salford a while ago who banged on about the “unregulated camera” on a drone being what bothered her.
I suppose she’s also bothered by the “unregulated camera” she has in her own pocket, too?
Drone cameras are more regulated than most. You don’t have to register with a government agency and slap an operator ID on your smartphone.
2 Likes
Different argument,
You have to ‘slap’ that op id on a UAV that doesn’t have a camera too.
1 Like
True but under 250g it’s the camera that makes the difference between registration or not.
Just to clarify from the first post, you wasn’t approached, you don’t know who he called
We have to be careful of creating our own paranoia, most of us get little or no negativity when flying and some get positive feed back also
Remember this is an open forum, let’s keep it real 
1 Like
I also get mostly positive feedback when flying in the wild too, as I’ve said previously in this thread. Including at that very same site.
He was more irate and angry at the end and after his phone call, as I’ve also said on this thread. Reasonable inference to make he was told to stop wasting 999’s time.
2 Likes
Get out and fly, it’s a lovely day
4 Likes
Like I said you are assuming he called 999 but in reality you don’t know
I get irate and angry when I call the other half 