Recent content by Swindan

With all due respect. flying safe and flying legal are not neccisersly the same thing.

I'm not looking for excuse just trying to understand the laws regarding the drone. as I have found out; flying a drone legally in most parts the UK is essentially impossible and finding out where is legal to fly for the average hobbyist is very hard and leaves you with almost no areas to take...

I live like most people... with neighbours so the 50 meter law applies. who owns the field next to me? Not a clue and I don't want to have to go through the arduous process of investigating land ownership evert time I want to fly. I don't own a drone for the thrill of flying as high as I can...

And as for the draconian laws, individually and taken in isolation each law seems quite reasonable and sensible. it's how those laws interact with each other that is the problem. Take this for instance . in the UK as far as I can tell you are unable to fly legal in almost the entire...

My "flying blender" would compensate for the wind with its stabilisation system. if the weather was bad enough that it could not cope then I would not fly.

I can begin to understand why some people chose to ignore the rules with how draconian the can be.

It's just in some cases they mention not to over fly and then go on to mention not within a certain distance as well and in other paragraphs they just mention the required distance with no mention of not over flying.

So I bought my new P3A and it came the other day. I have been reading all the rules and regs and want to stay on the right side of the law. which brings me to my question. When the CAA says you cannot fly within 50 meters of someone does that mean just horizontally? or does that mean that I can...