Originally Posted by
londonman
Seems to me we're pussy-footing round this issue. The drones that are causing all the grief are the toy ones. So, they're toys...no reason why they should not be made illegal. And illegal to fly an existing one without a licence....which is never forthcoming.
Unfortunately, the toothpaste is out of the tube. Hundreds of thousands of these things are in the hands of people who only know which way up to hold a newspaper if there are pictures and they only watch MTV and play computer games when not flying their octocopters
. Enforcement of any rules is now close on impossible. Aviation is living on borrowed time - there
will be a 'drone' manned aircraft mid-air sometime soon. Yet even then banning them will not be just a case of writing laws and regulations and demanding licensing. The people that will lose out here will be the conscientious model aero clubs.