So it's illegal to fly a drone further than you can see it? Why do they sell ones with such long ranges? Also what happens if something happens to the drone? I've never got one cos i'ld be afraid of it falling and hitting someone.
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Originally Posted by Hugh
That’s the main ISTAR base now, isn’t it?
Interesting...
(can’t see them sending a Reaper over Gatwick, can you?)
Update - just remembered, 54SU is based at RAF Digby, a couple of miles away from Wadders. Their job is to, and I quote, "provide processing, exploitation, and dissemination of all UK air-derived electronic surveillance data".
The drone jockeys’ time is running out.
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Originally Posted by Uncle Peter
Yes it sure is. All of our ISTAR assets are there including the Reapers and that clunky old thing we bought from the Yanks 
Now funny you should mention that. There's a block of airspace: TMA1 just to the East of Gatwick with an upper level of 19,500ft. Now just above that up to 25,000ft is where the Reapers normally operate.
I've been watching for the past few hours (on Flightradar24 and *cough* something else) anything around that block between FL240 and FL260 vectored further North parallel with the M25 so it does make you wonder. |
What are you talking about?
