Halls Hill, (South Downs Way) Buriton, Hants - Added to Parks and Recreation in South East

I have just added this to the map of places to fly your drone at Drone Scene - Location # 624

Land owner permission requirements unknown.

The marker shows the car park, with space for around twenty cars. It has a height barrier set at 2 metres. On a Tuesday afternoon in winter it was still populated with three or four cars. The area is part of the South Downs Way and is popular with walkers and bike riders. It offers similar scenery to the adjacent Queen Elizabeth Country Park which is, unlike this, not free to park (£6/day). Although it is possible to fly from the car park the only way to keep line of sight is to fly straight upwards (as I did for the pano that can be seen on Grey Arrows). It is, however, a useful place to stop to access the South Downs Way and open countryside

The originator declared that this location was not inside a Flight Restriction Zone at the time of being flown on 21/01/2020. It remains the responsibility of any pilot to check for any changes before flying at the same location.

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I’ve flown here too @macspite. Once successfully, and once got aborted because a Chinook appeared at canopy height just before I took off. I haven’t had a great deal of success at Buriton generally. Bizarrely I had 2 flyaway / type crashes there, several years apart, flying from the green in Buriton village a few meters down the road from Halls Hill. Something about that area features something that can send our IMU units nuts. I haven’t flown it since.

New to flying, and have a DJI Mini 4 Pro.

The South Downs way is a public footpath and bridleway. Would I be able to TOAL from that? Or will that depend on who owns that footpath at the various points along the route?

I have had a look at the South Downs National Park website and there is no published restriction on drone flying.

Having said that there are various sites along the way that are owned by the National Trust who get bent out of shape if you take off from their land and quite afew SSSIs that may or may not be affected by overflying depending on what rare species are in the SSSI and the time of year.

Your best bet is to use DroneScene to both check out which areas are NT (you can overfly NT land but not use it for TOAL) or SSSI - you need to zoom in a fair amount to see those areas. Those layers are available to paying GADC members

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Thanks! I didn’t realise there was so much hidden behind the paywall, have subscribed now. Super handy.

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