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Old 2nd Jan 2015, 11:44
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DaveReidUK
 
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I know that area - he would have been approximately 800m laterally from aircraft on final for 26L at around 1300ft AGL.
That sounds right - looking at the map, the mobile home site is about 4 DME from the threshold. If an aircraft at that point was at 150' (the height the drone was flying at) then I'd suggest that the presence of a drone half a mile off the port wingtip would be the least of the pilot's problems.

You tell me if that is legal.
Well we're still waiting for our Yorkshire friend to back up his assertion that it isn't, by quoting chapter-and-verse, but if you can save him the trouble ...

And what he was attempting to do (photograph the aftermath of a fire that killed 2 children and an adult) was distasteful at best.
He's a press photographer. That's his job.
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