Gatwick Drone 'Attack'

Looks like an opportunity to develop anti drone drones.

Mike

It'll be the government and the CIA trying to get drones banned in Britain

Nonsense - not drones at all. UFO's making first contact. Aliens will be probing everyone in the country by tomorrow morning. Panic buying Vaseline in Asda...

Dave

On another forum they have reached 56 pages!!!! on this item, so far Very few of the posters offer anything other than banning manufacture, buying , selling, flying etc. as possible remedies. One or two saner souls understand the utter futility of any such efforts, in the same way that the answer to 5000 DEATHS on British roads EACH YEAR would logically be to BAN the motor car. These things exist. Bad guys and standard human idiots exist! Banning the latter would be MUCH more effective.

My viewpoint may seem uncaring of what is thought to be the 'problem' - Kites have been in existence for hundreds of years; I was brought to earth by one such, wrapping its string around the main and tail rotor hubs of our helicopter such that the pitchchange rods were bent like bananas ... quite lucky to walk away from it. These things happen. I would not suggest that kites should be banned and I would suggest that a little less 'hysterical' commentary and a more pragmatic assessment by the aviation world would avoid the nonsensical scenes being enacted at Gatwick at the moment.

rgds

Bill

They won't get shot down until they have located the perps.

The RSPCA have vetoed any attempts to shoot it down due to the risk of injuring the reindeer.

It would make finding the operator easier to spot because he would be red and white.

Except at very close range, a kite is not effectively steered to a precise position to cause damage. In theory, all commercial drones sold are required by law to include no fly zones programmed into their GPS systems by the manufacturer which includes airport exclusion zones along with military bases and government buildings dictated by the home countries security services.

On a lighter note, drones are great ways to deal with wasp and hornet nests. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIcDsRSilnQ

Edited By V8Eng on 20/12/2018 20:38:13

Edited By V8Eng on 20/12/2018 20:38:51

You mean the nest gets closed till the drone pilot gets caught !!!!!!

They won't ban them - that would be unreasonable. They'll just limit the maximum altitude to 150mm and the range to 1500mm, with those figures halved if within 100km of a government establishment.

Martin.

Edited By blowlamp on 20/12/2018 20:56:43

Straight after watching that story on the morning news they had another story of how drones can be used in a positive way - they were using them to fly in medicine to remote areas in Vanuatu. I can see things being strictly controlled and you will have to have a licence to buy one . The problem is once programmed top end units fly themselves so easy for a neanderthal to operate not like an rc plane or chopper that takes skill and concentration to fly and you are limited with radio power .

Edited By XD 351 on 20/12/2018 21:18:59

I reckon it's the Russians testing the effects of economic warfare.

Mr Grayling said the government was now looking to "go further" with drone-control, including considering age-limits for users.

I don’t somehow think that will really worry somebody who is already prepared to ignore laws, probably will just inconvenience legit users even more.

Didn’t I hear that Amazon were going to use drones to deliver goods , perhaps they got the wrong postcode , and it can’t decide whether to dump it over the fence , or return it to the depot ? .

Perhaps it's an engine part for a 747 but no one will sign for it.

They navy didn't bother about this drone, https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-40910087

Edited By Adam Stevenson on 21/12/2018 00:52:00

As well as compulsory licensing for all users and a tripling of the current cost (£1079) - annually.

It's not as if such an astronomical increase in yet another avenue of taxation would be regarded by most people as anything other than business as usual for whichever side happens to govern us these days.

Economic warefare is the future.. whether it's hacking sensitive information and using that to DDOS attacks or the sort of simple drone approach.. or even simpler still if you have a bunch of guys dropping bricks off motorway bridges or shining lasers at drivers. Drone use at prisons is one thing .. but a few dropping into crowds at football matches or concerts even without a malicious payload would cause a nice panic. or even as simple as needles in strawberries. Constantly switching tactics leaves gov playing catch-up which they are generally hopeless at. It doesn't have to be an expensive quadcopter drone.. a simpler fixed wing remote jobbie flown into a crowd will do.