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To be fair, we probably cantered straight towards the thing so the 50m clearance was probably compromised by us
If they were an authorised operator on a paid for engagement they should have treated that as an incursion, and (according to their ops manual procedure) landed or moved the UAV away from you.
But lets face it they weren't 🙂 - facebook groups are a good place to start looking along with YouTube.
The CAA do actually monitor YouTube posts and chase down the posters if they don't look like they are following the 'rules'.
I think the best delimiter for what could be considered a toy is the wind speed you can control the thing in. All the little ones my boys have need sub 8 year old hand/eye coordination to keep in the air in much more than a mild breeze, whilst the Phantom is rock solid in some reasonable wind.
I think the CAA rules are fine and have been around for years, although recently updated. I think the public perception is going to be the problem.
I'm not really looking forward to getting my Autonomous drone due to the amount of people that seem to get arsey about them, even if you stick to the CAA rules.
I've had Heli's & RC cars before, even with cameras and people would come up and ask questions, never got pissy, despite the huge amount of noise the RC's put out with an engine revving to 18,000rpm. I don't think this will be the case with a drone and they are much quieter. I'm hoping its a minority and not the majority that will throw a hissy fit.
I'll be keeping a flight log as I do with all my flying toys, copies of the CAA & photography rules to hand out & use an app that shows all UK no fly zones.
Hopefully the more drones over the years, the less people will care. I remember people getting funny about GoPro's filming on the trails, and now most groups of people have a GoPro.
Yaw dunna lyke me grammer den 😆
You kinda know what I'm saying.
Thing is, down on the coast there are a number of clubs that use selected airfields and disused airfields where they all play nicely. Happy with that. The teeny ones that fly in your home, fine go annoy the cat.
Trouble is with you lot is you are going through a huge influx of blokes with new toys syndrome and somehow you've got to educate them all. We won't, we'll just tell them all to sod off and go play somewhere else which will inflame the situation somewhat. We don't care really because we all think you are in the wrong, and act upon that, politely.
We also have massive Bird sanctuaries down here, you know places where flocking birds gather in their 000's.. Now we [b][i][u]do care[/b][/i][/u] about these, I wasn't the only one having a quiet word with "fat bald chip eating drone flyer in trackie bottoms" a number of our selected Twitchers were pointing out the bleeding obvious too.
Fair play, he landed it in the sea and had to go fetch it, fine with me, hope it's knackered beyond economic repair.
You have to educate this elite bunch in society, we will all watch and comment whilst these annoying buzzing things disturb our peaceful Bird sanctuaries, open beach family loving environments..Then someone will retaliate and we'll win, happy with that too.
Maybe you could all chip in and get some t-shirts printed with "I'm a Drone" emblazend upon them so we know who you are and discourage you from opening your Citroen Picasso's boot and reaching for the toy.
That'd help a great deal, thanks.
A lot of the use of 'we' in the shambles above. Who is 'we'? General public, bird twitcher types, 'people like you', your family? Who do you think you are representing? Daily Mail readers of the UK perhaps.
Whilst I agree there are lots of places where flying these things makes no sense (bird sanctuaries seem a sensible omission) I'm still glad the sensible types at the CAA are not advocating licences for all.
p.s. you sound dreadfully dull - I'd not bother too much with worrying about anyone wanting to use one to spy on you 😉