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These industrial Drones will have dual battery packs, which will basically allow the drone to fly for the best part of an hour or more before being required to land, they will also return to home whenever the drone detects the batteries are becoming depleted and they’re smart enough to know how much battery juice they need to get home with.
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Other half is going to Lapland in 2 hours, has to drive to Gatwick, check in and then get a coach to Stansted, I hope comeuppance is winging its way towards the perpetrators and that it's bitter medicine
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Hopefully things will start to improve throughout today after the chaos of yesterday.
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So, with no crims or drones found, someone is taking a risk re-opening Gatwick. Some are blaming tree huggers as a protest, they could easily move on to Heathrow or elsewhere.
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Whoever is using the drone must have the technical knowledge to disable the GPS geofencing. Speculation is that the control is being done over the 4G/5G phone network so unless the authorities can actually capture the drone to discover the mobile identity the culprit(s) will get away with it.
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But some people calling for extra laws, the idiots flying the ones at Gatwick, won't care for them and are just spoiling the hobby for those who do respect the rules and laws attached to drone flying. |
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How high are these drones flying over the airport.
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It's not unheard but they can fly 1000's of Metres in the air, at these heights, they will not even appear to be a dot in the sky. Even at 100 M it will just barely be visible, it will be like trying to shoot at a Blue bottle 10 M away. |
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(it can take hours to do a FOD walk on a runway - I've taken part in some before, and it's basically a long line of people very close together walking up and down the runway for a couple of hours to clear any fragments off). |
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You'd be lucky if there was enough kinetic energy in a spread of pellets to take down a drone in the 50-100 yard range
A slug at 300 yards maybe but good luck hitting a fast moving drone at that range. |
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Breaking: Gatwick on hold due to suspected drone sighting.
https://twitter.com/ReutersUK?ref_sr...Ctwgr%5Eauthor |
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