Bruce xjet for Prime Minister would very much get my vote 
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The offences were committed in June last year, is this not the same story / guy, Peter? 
In the BBC story the list of charges is this one
- Alternated the drone controller to allow the drone to fly further distances, contrary to the Wireless Telegraphy Act 2006
Sounds like the FCC hack
Think the guy that few near East Midlands Airport for the DownLoad Festival got done for the same thing too - he paid like Ā£1500 I think it was and had his phone and drone taken off him too.
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They also state
The drone was a small one, which did not require a licence.
They got the license bit wrong on that one - but what media outlet have we seen to ever get the facts right.
Would love to know what drone it was. Looking at the guys YouTube he did have phantom looking drone at one point.
So this guy did know his drones I am sure.
Yes, looking on his YT channel it seems he flies a mini 3 pro, so the BBC got the bit about not needing a ālicenceā? wrong. He did require an operator ID. I can see the Daily Fail and their anti drone rhetoric, running this on their front page tomorrow.
Headline banner āMan flew drone over 3 miles at 1500ft ā 
Grrr, another pet hate, for those of us educated after 1965 (when the UK started to go metric), should be āOver 450mā, but then I wouldnāt expect Fail journalists to have been educated I guess!
Although the requirement of 400ft or 120mā¦ 400ft is actually 121.92mā¦ So I can fly higher in feet!!
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Arenāt all aviation altitudes stated in feet anyway, bugger the frenchies ;o)
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And not forgetting, if youāre flying over an obstacle higher than 120m ( with the owners permission) you can fly higher than 120m 
Very true, and was probably the US and us after the war that enforced that. Bloody hard to change internationally (donāt the Russians use meters for aviation? Or did I imagine seeing that). Like our roads, be bloody hard to change it!
I just donāt get feet as a distance. MIles OK, KM OKā¦ Meters OK, itās just feet I canāt picture/imagine!
Iām on your bus on that
1500 sounds better than 500 though to give the impression of how ābadā the height was
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I am surprised that in the birthday competition last year for flying legally above 120m, nobody simply flew at 400 feet
He used binoculars to watch the drone and thought this was acceptable because it was in his line of sight.
Judge Ken Sheraton said the drone had been up to three miles away from him when it was flying.
Heās very talented if he can watch a small drone 3 miles away through binoculars whilst operating a controller with two joysticks. 
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Itās rather like the US insistence for quoting the weight of things as x thousands of pounds instead of using tons 
in aviation all distances are measured in nautical milesā¦ hence speeds are in knotsā¦ and altitude is in feet (above sea level)
this was done in 1969 via the icao
And a criminal record, which means needing a visa to enter certain countries like the USA.
100% ā¦ which makes him even more of a tit for using his real name to upload footage of his house (with a handy map) and car registration.
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His criminal record wouldnāt stop him getting an American visa
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Maybe, but theyād make him jump through hoops to get one