Now if only we could get DJ Audits to fly in the same place 
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I hope the person involved loses his or hers firearms licence.
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I watched a Geeksvana video earlier today, and he made an interesting point.
Referring back to the Drone Code, (https://register-drones.caa.co.uk/drone-code/where-you-can-fly) he pointed out the following text
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Checking for airport, airfield and spaceport restrictions
You can find details of FRZs and other airspace restrictions in NATS'Some drone apps also give details of flight restriction zones.
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If someone hasn’t researched drone flying properly, it’s maybe understandable that a novice user may assume that if the “drone app” doesn’t show a restriction, then you are OK to fly!
I’m sure everyone here knows that you would be crazy to rely on the DJI app!!
Regardless of flying in a restricted area, discharging a firearm into the air and causing an aircraft to crash is an offence. What if the battery flared up and hit a dry hay bale/shrubs
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Oh, don’t get me wrong, shooting at a drone is clearly reckless (and I’m sure illegal), but it highlights how novice users can easily fall foul of the rules, but still think they are compliant
Blimey, you actually regained consciousness after it? 
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I do tend to be selective with his videos … this one was relatively short, so not to much risk of becoming comatose!
And one of the worst for missing restricted areas is DJIs Geo itself.
Which is also likely the one and only source a lot of operators check.
The authorities will classify a drone as an aircraft when it suits them, usually when they want to penalise the operator. In this instance I don’t believe the gun owner suffered any repercussions from his actions. It’s still unclear if the drone owner will be reprimanded for flying in restricted airspace.
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Oh come on, his videos are my sleep aid of choice at the moment. He needs to get onto that bandwagon, branch out and make more money!
And if you had just picked up a new drone from your local Currys or Argos, and the DJI app states it stops you flying where you shouldn’t then maybe you can excuse this kind of thing! DJI either should be updated constantly with a live feed, or have none at all and tell you where to check 
It helps us all to be aware of the “bigger picture”. Whilst i can’t condone shooting down a drone, as drone pilots we have to be mindfull that drones are used by criminals to skope out possible targets. If there were classic cars on the property, it’s easy to see that the owner might jump to the conclusion that he was being targeted. I hear a lot from people in the farming comunity who have suffered thefts of equipment where drones have been used to find ways into their properties.
If only everyone flew for good reasons!
And people with expensive shit had decent security ?
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question… what offence(s) do you think the shotgun owner committed?
ok, I agree that the uav owner flying in a nfz was committing an offence… no argument.
but I’m curious what offence(s) do you think the shotgun owner committed under UK law?
(can you list them or what you think they are?)
do you think both parties should have been tried in the magistrates court or given a fine or no further action position taken?
I’ve seen this above…
is that the actual fire arms offence you believe that has been committed?
stumbled across this one in the UK on the following website if you want a bit of a write up (sorry if you’ve seen it before as it’s 12m old +)
UK Law: Can You Legally Shoot Down a Drone?.
I know that the law is clear in the US and it IS enforced by the FAA… I’m just not sure about the CAA as the CAA write the rules… but they don’t enforce them and the don’t prosecute based on infringements of the rules. The FAA do all 3 in house.
NFZ or FRZ
Even the latter is possible with permission, the other is some made up bollocks by DJI
That gun would have been shoved up where the sun doesn’t shine if he’d done that to my drone!
I must admit the I was lead into a false sense of security when I bought my original mini 2 and it’s flysafe database…
now I know better… but that is always the risk when the manufacturer of a product provides a half arsed solution to a problem or something to demonstrate their product provides "automatic " compliance
problem is there are a LOT of drone buyers who don’t know that and believe flysafe is correct