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What if...this larger drone sighted has 24 hours battery...and the culprit pilot has a spare one waiting...this could go on for ages. Is there anyway a police drone in the air could sense an operator on the ground apart from visual means?
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DI7016 JFK-LGW diverted into DSA.
DI7058 MCO-LGW looks to be heading to DUB.
VS44 LAS-LGW heading into LHR.
Also noticed the Aurigny jet from GCI has just left for LGW, any idea why they'd do this if the airfield is currently closed?
DI7058 MCO-LGW looks to be heading to DUB.
VS44 LAS-LGW heading into LHR.
Also noticed the Aurigny jet from GCI has just left for LGW, any idea why they'd do this if the airfield is currently closed?
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Aurigny using common sense...land at Southampton. Same as RYR are doing...diverting to STN
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It’ll take a while for the airlines to reposition all the diverted flights back in to LGW once it reopens.
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“Common sense” only really works if you’re not LGW-based, have infrastructure in place elsewhere to facilitate this and capacity is available. There aren’t many LGW operators with that luxury.
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Is it me being an old cynic or is there something else going on at LGW? I mean it’s still on going. How much battery does the drone have? Why are certain flights landing but many others cancelled an diverted. I know about crew hours and displacement etc but seems strange...
and yes yes I know safety is the number one priority
and yes yes I know safety is the number one priority
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Drones flying over the airport is a joke, how can this be allowed to affect so many people?!
The military should have been bought in last night to bring down these drones and the people piloting them. Anti aircraft missiles and tomahawk missiles would have resolved this in minutes.
The military should have been bought in last night to bring down these drones and the people piloting them. Anti aircraft missiles and tomahawk missiles would have resolved this in minutes.
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Is it me being an old cynic or is there something else going on at LGW? I mean it’s still on going. How much battery does the drone have? Why are certain flights landing but many others cancelled an diverted. I know about crew hours and displacement etc but seems strange...
and yes yes I know safety is the number one priority
and yes yes I know safety is the number one priority
and where would all this hardware fall pray? As someone who was in LGW all yesterday on business I'm all for catching these idiots but I don't want to have to cower under the table as bits of shrapnel rain down......
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Very busy at Heathrow today hope they catch the idiot with drone should have kept manston open it was a diversion airport lots of crews use to like popping in hear pity lydd couldn't pick up a few small aircraft like atr72 or emb190
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hear pity lydd couldn't pick up a few small aircraft like atr72 or emb190
What would the reason why Lydd-airport could not pick-up some of the diversions?
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easyjet A320 just left gate / did a taxi to 26L as if it was going to take off , rolled down the runway at about 20kts to the first exit and went back the take off point at 26L again then just went back to its gate.
Strange stuff
Strange stuff