Gatwick

[2boxerdogs]

Just seems a pointless & damn stupid not to mention invasive hobby or whatever anyone wishes to call it , childish comments were expected.. these things cannot be compared to cars.

[Gaffers]

Why don't drones have to pay air tax and have insurance?  Surely they should also have number plates on them so we can trace the owner

Personally, I wouldn't fly without insurance, and unless you're just playing with a 50m range toy in your garden, anyone would be mental not to take out a policy.


If its with malicious intent, I'm sure any identifying marks would be removed or faked, including electronic ones.

Sorry for not replying sooner, it took a while to get my tongue out of my cheek 

[Kevin Wood]

Just seems a pointless & damn stupid not to mention invasive hobby or whatever anyone wishes to call it , childish comments were expected.. these things cannot be compared to cars.

Bit like golf, then, or fishing, or anything else I don't enjoy personally.

First they came for the socialists..

[Nick W]

Just seems a pointless & damn stupid not to mention invasive hobby or whatever anyone wishes to call it , childish comments were expected.. these things cannot be compared to cars.

Pointless and damn stupid would be a good definition for most hobbies I can think of.




Comparing drones to cars depends on the car: a small to mid-size hatchback needs no justification for most owners, most of the time. That's why they're so common. Anything bigger is much harder to justify in most cases without adding want rather than need. Which is true of my Omega/BMW/Capri etc ownership. Many of the car I've owned/covet are as much toys as practical.

[TheBoy]

How do you know it hasn't got a camera, or if it's disabled?  I'm pretty sure if something hovered over your back garden for a couple of hours for a few days running, you'd be a bit put out. It wasn't actually me that took potshots at it, but I certainly didn't try to talk him out of it.

Doesn't really matter, they are not allowed (legally) to fly low over your home, camera or otherwise, without your permission.  So the proper course of action is to report to the ol' bill.

Multirotors in particular are a bit noisy, so any operator with half an ounce of brain should know that it has the ability to piss people off.  But as always in life, there are always some who think they can do as they please, no matter who it upsets.


My solution is well known, but unpopular with do-gooders, and Opti's avatar.

[aaronjb]

So I hear this morning that the firm with the controlling stake in Gatwick (50.1%) has sold it's stake to a multinational who own airports in France, Spain and Portugal.


.. I wonder if they own any drones.

[Doctor Gollum]

So I hear this morning that the firm with the controlling stake in Gatwick (50.1%) has sold it's stake to a multinational who own airports in France, Spain and Portugal.


.. I wonder if they own any drones.

Not news... Been on the market for a while now 

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-10/gip-is-said-to-consider-sale-of-its-stake-in-gatwick-airport

That said, now it's done, perhaps the management will regain a more operational focus

[biggriffin]

So I hear this morning that the firm with the controlling stake in Gatwick (50.1%) has sold it's stake to a multinational who own airports in France, Spain and Portugal.


.. I wonder if they own any drones.

Not news... Been on the market for a while now 

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-10/gip-is-said-to-consider-sale-of-its-stake-in-gatwick-airport

That said, now it's done, perhaps the management will regain a more operational focus

Er no, Officer crabtree will be in charge,with help from des gilets jaunes. What could possibly go Wong,  Just more of our business) infrastructure owned indirectly by the French government

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

Since the innocent couple were released, there has been no news at all about how the police manhunt is going. So, was there ever a drone ?

[78bex]

Since the innocent couple were released, there has been no news at all about how the police manhunt is going. So, was there ever a drone ?

just go outside & stare upwards, very soon others will join in  ruddy drones are everwhere

[TheBoy]

Since the innocent couple were released, there has been no news at all about how the police manhunt is going. So, was there ever a drone ?

Given some of the police comments, there are beginning to suggest maybe there were none.  So, either...

1) There were, but to cover up their ineffectiveness, yet still open the airport, suggesting none.
or
2) There weren't (or there was one accidentally/negligently flown near) and people started viewing birds as drones, esp once the media hype gets going.


What I do know is, if this was a malicious drone attack, the perps gave up a bit too easily.

[Entwood]

Since the innocent couple were released, there has been no news at all about how the police manhunt is going. So, was there ever a drone ?

Given some of the police comments, there are beginning to suggest maybe there were none.  So, either...

1) There were, but to cover up their ineffectiveness, yet still open the airport, suggesting none.
or
2) There weren't (or there was one accidentally/negligently flown near) and people started viewing birds as drones, esp once the media hype gets going.


What I do know is, if this was a malicious drone attack, the perps gave up a bit too easily.

I believe they found a wrecked one near the scene ??

Problem with the highly sophisticated military hardware that "might" have been deployed ... it causes the drone to crash which removes the immediate problem,  (unless it crashes onto someone/something sensitive), but does not allow the operator to be traced ... so a well equiped perpetrator simply needs to have a ready supply handy and launch another ..... 

[Varche]

Or have a dead drone that is untraceable plus my hologram projection theory .

[Sir Tigger KC]

Or have a dead drone that is untraceable plus my hologram projection theory .

So it was the Bat Signal? 

And Batman snuck in under cover of all the mayhem to do what he had to do, and then got out! 

[Varche]

Titter ye not. Hologram technology has moved on a long way since then.

Coincidence both begin with G ?!