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Old 14th Aug 2015, 08:15
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Mechta
 
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6. Any owner/operator that flies within 2 miles of a emergency operation of any kind without prior permission of all pertinent agencies will be subject to severe fines.
How the heck is anyone supposed to know everything that is happening within a two mile radius of them*? Emergency operations, unless they go on for days, are hardly likely to be NOTAMed.

*I suppose you could always send up a drone and have a look...


In the UK, the British Model Flying Association in conjunction with the Civil Aviation Authority have created a number of documents and schemes to regulate their members, professional drone users and those wishing to experiment with the, generally larger, commercial-type drones. What they have produced looks pretty well thought out. There will always be 'cowboys' who ignore these rules, however the existing Air Navigation Orders apply just as much to model aircraft and drones as they do to manned aircraft.

https://bmfa.org/Multi-Rotors

BMFA Multi-Rotor Achievement Scheme - DroneTrest


grumpytroll, you have made the assumption that drones are bought as off-the-shelf entities, whereas at the larger end of the scale the exact opposite is more likely to be the case, with each part of the equipment being selected for the exact application.

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