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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
When you consider the many ways these machines can be misused and pose a deadly threat, I don't think it is draconian at all. We made do without them before, we can do so again.
This case is alerting us to how ill thought out this whole idea is.
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I fly drones as a hobby in a totally legal way and have been doing so for a couple of years now.
It doesn't matter how many laws, rules you can can come up with, there will always be idiots who does not care about the rules.
The cheaper toy drones do not fly for longer periods, do not come with GPS position flying, so the pilot really needs to have good control for the drone to stay in the air.
I at one point owned 5 drones, ranging from the small to professional standard - the mid range to professional ones have GPS and the professional ones, have GPS fencing which does not allow the pilot to fly any where near an Airport but you will always have some who can circumvent the software locks and get around this.
The issue here is that the Pilot of these drones at Gatwick, can be absolutely miles away, one of the drones I have can fly 7 KM away, however, UK law says to fly legally, the drone must always be in line of sight, these pilots of these drones at Gatwick will be flying with First Person View with either a Screen or Virtual Goggles. They won't be anywhere near the Airport, probably sat in a van or some other vehicle in a forest somewhere.