Honest Hammer 11:21 Tue Oct 4
Drones and where you can fly them
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I haven't been round here for a while, but obviously this is THE place for 'this happened to my mate' etc..
I have a drone en route and the laws in the UK seem somewhat undefined.
Anyone had any experience on where you can and can't?
Obvious no go zones are near an airport and in built up areas. If I were to say to go down to the end of Southend Pier... legal?
Cheers.
HH
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Bungo
4:38 Wed Oct 5
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Fivetide 4:33 Wed Oct 5
It's funny how quickly they seem to have become an intrinsic part of the TV news film crew's armoury. Almost seems obligatory for them to include a 'drone shot' at the moment.
Mind you if it saves the BBC paying for helicopters to do the aerial shots then I'm all for it!
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Fivetide
4:33 Wed Oct 5
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They are very useful for aerial photography and surveillance - particularly on private work sites, as well as for PR/marketing. But only in the right hands. You need to already be a skilled photographer with the film editing skills, creative flair and business model to match. The output that looked exciting a couple of years ago is already looking dull and formulaic, and the portfolios doing the rounds are all the same boring crap.
*Circles, zooms out, pans and fades to soundtrack of Ludovico Einaudi's 'Una Mattina'...*
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Bungo
4:16 Wed Oct 5
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What I'd be interested to know is whether anyone that has bought one (without a predetermined specific use for it), has used it more than a handful of times?
Seems to me like one of those things that gets bought on impulse, and then ends up unused on a shelf in the garage.
Or is it too early to tell?
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Fivetide
3:51 Wed Oct 5
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I thought you'd need a shotgun to knock these out of the sky. Turns out it is really easy to do just by hurling a stick about a foot long. They really damage themselves badly when crash-landing on asphalt, apparently, and are unlikely to be bothering you again anytime soon.
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ohgodno
1:44 Wed Oct 5
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You can't fly them in operating theaters or normal theaters.
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IsaacHock
1:39 Wed Oct 5
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Shotguns at football matches? I'm surprised you haven't got a story about that CCCB.
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chim chim cha boo
1:04 Wed Oct 5
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Pi Alpha Nu 11:53 Wed Oct 5
Total waste of a cartridge. Save them up for Chelsea away.
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Pi Alpha Nu
11:53 Wed Oct 5
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As I got out my car the other day I could hear a strange noise I looked up and saw a drone.
At that moment I thought that I'd wish I had a shotgun on me.
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Honest Hammer
10:35 Wed Oct 5
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It's not my drone so I don't really care if it ends up in the drink.
Yes I'm planning on flying near playgrounds, always been into a bit of noncing.
Sniff my shit
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Bungo
10:26 Wed Oct 5
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Maybe these will 'take off' if you pardon the pun..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdkd9BX_iBk
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jack flash
10:04 Wed Oct 5
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No idea what the rules are, but if one of those fuckers flies over my land I wouldn't hesitate to shoot it down & smash it to pieces, in the interest of national security of course
Total invasion of privacy, they should be banned
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gank
3:45 Wed Oct 5
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Are you planning to fly it over one of our matches? If not, what the fuck are you asking on here for? This is a West Ham website.
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J.Riddle
1:10 Wed Oct 5
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I know a few tales, but I refuse to DRONE on about it.
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gph
12:42 Wed Oct 5
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You can get into a lot of trouble if you load it with drugs, fly it near a prison and it goes ever so slightly off course
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chim chim cha boo
12:38 Wed Oct 5
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He he.
I've actually got one of those. Fucking impossible to fly and after about twenty pathetic attempts to fly it around my living room my Bengal cat Elvis decided to put me out of my misery by running off with it. I found it later under my bed chewed into about a thousand bits.
The drone I flew to make a video was about three grands worth with retractable wheels and able to carry a much bigger camera than a GoPro.
Last time I spoke to the bloke who owned it he told me that he'd taken it to Lanzarote to video wind surfers and it was now at the bottom of the sea. That's three grand WITHOUT counting the camera.
It can be an expensive hobby when it all goes wrong.
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J.Riddle
12:15 Wed Oct 5
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Chim, can't see this being worth £1500
https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/shopping?q=tbn:ANd9GcQe98DH1qmivFzZ95ezmcdZKNuuB8vfnITiXLHuKKLPgu2nbt6c&usqp=CAE
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yngwies Cat
12:13 Wed Oct 5
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Kim Kardashians arse.
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ManorParkHammer
12:12 Wed Oct 5
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Stay away from playgrounds.
Am pretty sure you will be violating one of your previous orders.
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yngwies Cat
12:12 Wed Oct 5
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(nt)
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chim chim cha boo
11:58 Tue Oct 4
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In my experience it's where you can get away with flying one. There's a height limit and you have to be a silly distance from an airport but to most people they are still a curiosity.
I flew one in the city on a Sunday and in Waterlow park in Highgate on a sunny day with loads of people enjoying the sun and although people start to look at you like you're about to ruin their day once it's up in the air they can't even hear it.
When it comes to flying it around Southend pier picture in your mind's eye fifteen hundred quid in cash flying out to sea that you'll never get back if it goes in the drink. It tends to focus you as it flies off almost out of sight while you try to remember if you are flying it backwards or forwards.
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defjam
11:57 Tue Oct 4
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Used one for storm chasing down by Hastings, mate got some cracking lightning footage.
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