Mavic Mini and Mavic Pro 2
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Indeed you would hope so but multiple reports of idiocy suggest otherwise. But I donât think we or at least I are describing similar activity as that. You are approaching it quite naturally as a flyer of âbig stuffâ while I am simply trying to keep my âsmall stuffâ out of your way. Some activity in assumed usually safe deserted areas is not pre-advertised and there is no way of knowing what to expect except to expect the unexpected.
The last time I was able to fly before Xmas at a site nowhere near any airfield and with no advisories of any description a light aircraft appeared from behind me chugging along not much higher than my drone. Totally unexpected to see an aircraft there never mind at such low height. Luckily I had a spotter who saw it from over my shoulder and told me I had company. I reduced height quickly as I was only 200m or so away and at about 100ft so there was no near miss as far as I was concerned.
@Freeflight you are lucky to have a park to fly in! Any grass anywhere near me is within an airport NFZ so I canât even think of flying without traveling 10+ miles. Some do ignore the rules and I have seen on some forums (not this one!) green space within a NFZ described as âa good place to flyâ. The nearest piece of grass or field to me not in a NFZ is near a hospital heli-pad which is only used on rare occasion obviously and it is not actually marked as no-go but I would not even consider flying there.
The info you refer to @Freeflight needs to be acquired before flying, via say the CAA site. The CAA do not differentiate âtoyâ from âproperâ drones. All the current <250g weight limit confers on the user is the right to fly without registering. All drones big and small at the moment are subject to the same regulations. I have a small 213g drone which I cannot fly in my back garden as I am 400m from an airport NFZ and flights are rare but that doesnât exempt me. Seems unreasonable as I wouldnât be going up above 50 feet but I have to swallow it. My more expensive DJI drones wonât even allow take off if I wanted to break the law.
I live near RNAS culdrose in cornwall and there is no where near that they donât fly at whatever height they want to. Helicopters, Jets doesnât matter. Got to have eyes in the back of my head.
Their ATC is in my favs on my phone for every time I go up even if on the North coast, pretty much know me by first name now.
I think anyone who can say hand on heart that theyâve never broken the drone code is telling porkies.
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Some of us have seen worse over a reservoir in NW England: a light aircraft flying well below the 400-ft drone ceiling, and perhaps physically below where we were standing at the time! You really would not want to be BVLOS in that sort of situation. If that happened again, Iâd be reporting via the CAA drone safety portal.
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I guess
Talking of emergency services, I was walking up to my local park Recently with Mavic Mini in the bag to where there is a good space for a bit of flying practice with no one around. Just got there and within a minute or so the emergency helicopter came overhead and landed right in the middle of the field. Turns out a window cleaner had fell off his ladder ! Just goes to show that you can never be certain of what going to be in the air (or on the ground). Thankfully I hadnât even got the Mavic out of the bag but it certainly made me think more about emergency procedures as if Iâd been in the air I would have had very little time to react.
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Well no porkies here. As someone who flies with the full size rotors I know the dangers of airprox and there is no way I would endanger other aircraft. The code is there, so I fly to it.
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Yes Maam and I was inverted giving the CAA the bird
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Supersonic, too?
I think anyone who can say hand on heart that theyâve never broken the drone code is telling porkies.
No porkies here either. âAnyone who DELIBERATELY breaks the drone code is a selfish knobâ might be an alternative way of putting it that doesnât tar us all with a bad brush.
Many of us will hold our hand up to doing 22mph in a 20mph pedestrian zone or maybe lose sight of our drone for a second or two by going slightly too far but without deliberate intent but that is rather different to saying to hell with the rules Iâm exempt.
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Yeah but we arenât the drone police
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Oh !, thatâs a swear word on here !.
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It grips my shit mate.
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Oh !, i do love an arse with teeth ! 
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Theyâll be along soon 
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