Drones ground flights at Gatwick
21-12-2018, 17:37
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Re: Drones ground flights at Gatwick
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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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They stop geese and ducks [so i am told  ]
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This is getting silly now.
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21-12-2018, 17:41
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Re: Drones ground flights at Gatwick
So basically airports are at the whim of these drones unless they develop technologies that can stop them getting within a certain radius of a airport.
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21-12-2018, 17:43
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Re: Drones ground flights at Gatwick
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So basically airports are at the whim of these drones unless they develop technologies that can stop them getting within a certain radius of a airport.
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I read earlier that such technology was installed today.
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21-12-2018, 17:44
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Re: Drones ground flights at Gatwick
OK the parties over when they catch this terrorist, sell everything he ownes to the lowet bider and lock them up the rest of their life.
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21-12-2018, 17:45
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Re: Drones ground flights at Gatwick
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I read earlier that such technology was installed today.
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Well if the reports are true it ain't working.
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21-12-2018, 17:48
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Re: Drones ground flights at Gatwick
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Well if the reports are true it ain't working.
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I can't find the story now,not sure where i read it ,but it was said to be an Israeli anti drone system.
found it
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...twick-UAV.html
https://www.timesofisrael.com/uk-arm...ondon-airport/
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21-12-2018, 17:50
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Re: Drones ground flights at Gatwick
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I can't find the story now,not sure where i read it ,but it was said to be an Israeli anti drone system.
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Apparently they put up a drone tracking system this morning at Gatwick.
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21-12-2018, 17:56
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Re: Drones ground flights at Gatwick
It may not be the purpose of these drones but there are those that feel that aviation is a contributor to climate change, pollution, destruction of the ozone layer.
These are things that won't significantly impact on anyone reading this but it might be that our kids curse our profligacy.
Don't shoot me - just sayin' 
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21-12-2018, 18:00
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Re: Drones ground flights at Gatwick
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Apparently they put up a drone tracking system this morning at Gatwick.
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Even if they try to track where it came from, it is inevitable that the final part of the return journey will be obscured from the system's "view".
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21-12-2018, 18:04
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Re: Drones ground flights at Gatwick
Anybody who's technically savvy enough to break the Geofencing will no doubt have considered all tracking and jamming approaches.
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21-12-2018, 18:12
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Re: Drones ground flights at Gatwick
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It may not be the purpose of these drones but there are those that feel that aviation is a contributor to climate change, pollution, destruction of the ozone layer.
These are things that won't significantly impact on anyone reading this but it might be that our kids curse our profligacy.
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I am one of those that feel that aviation is a contributor to climate change, pollution, all in the name of cheap holidays - just sayin'
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Anybody who's technically savvy enough to break the Geofencing will no doubt have considered all tracking and jamming approaches.
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Probably turn out to be a 14 year old nerd with a home built drone flying it from his bedroom.
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Re: Drones ground flights at Gatwick
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Probably turn out to be a 14 year old nerd with a home built drone flying it from his bedroom.
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Wouldn't surprise me at all. Treating it like some video game.
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21-12-2018, 18:24
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Re: Drones ground flights at Gatwick
Looks like they're back in business at the moment. Aurigny flight to Guernsey just taken off
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21-12-2018, 18:30
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Re: Drones ground flights at Gatwick
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Originally Posted by Uncle Peter
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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Police snipers had a go at it (or them)
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London’s Gatwick Airport suspended flights on Friday just hours after reopening following a 36-hour closure which stranded more than 100,000 Christmas travellers when a mystery saboteur used drones to play cat-and-mouse with police snipers.
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https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-br..._medium=Social
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22-12-2018, 05:52
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Re: Drones ground flights at Gatwick
Two arrests made in relation to ‘criminal use of drones’, police say.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...ion-of-airport
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Two people have been arrested in connection with the “criminal use of drones” which has caused widespread disruption to flights at Gatwick airport, police have said.
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In a statement released in the early hours of Saturday, Sussex police said the arrests were made just after 10pm on Friday night.
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