Recent content by Ren57

Think you need a new frying pan.....

Nice video and nice place. Lucky you!

Great video... I bet storm Eunice didn't do the place any favours? I wonder what it looks like now?

Nice one. I was round there just a couple of weeks ago and did a bit of flying there myself. Not looked at the video yet though. Anyway, thanks.

I might be wrong but I'm sure Coverdrone do a Pay-Per-Flight policy now. Not sure if it'd work out any cheaper. The trouble with commercial cover is, they throw a lot of stuff in that you may not need, which bangs the premium up. Such as you're covered if your equipment gets stolen from your...

The cover you want to be looking for when flying commercially, is how much third party cover you have. Just incase you have an accident and damage property of seriously injure some third party. You want a minimum of £1,000,000 third party cover in the UK. In fact the CCA may have the minimum set...

I was with them for a couple of years. The premium sounds about right. Although when I was insured with them, the cover wasn't for 1 specific drone because I had several that I used. The price was the same though. I let my PFCO laps a couple of years ago and haven't bothered going back into it...

That sounds like great advice.... However... As I said before, I once dropped a laptop in a bath and then let it dry out. After a couple of weeks it worked just fine. That was 20 years ago. Still got the laptop, I just tried it today (although the battery is now toast) I connected to the wall...

If it wasn't salt water, there's every chance that once you let it dry out, it'll be alright. The only thing you can do is give it try. What do you have to lose? If it won't work, nothing lost. Sometimes a hair dryer can help getting it dried out but not too close and not too hot! I'd give it a...

You are right of course with your car analogy. And you could apply that school of thought to many many things. But then again, to drive a car, one would in normal circumstances have taken extensive training and passed a driving test. And then to drive that vehicle legally, you would require...

The 50 metre rule still applies. If your house is 50 metres or more away from any of your neighbourrs properties, then there is no problem. If it is closer than 50 metres then you can't just go and fly. But, if you go around to you neighbours and ask them for their permission (you could offer to...

I'm near Aberystwyth this weekend at my caravan. No, There'll be no flying this weekend, not in this wind, the sea looks pretty choppy out there. Wouldn't want to be on a boat out in the Irish sea today!:)

There's a lot of confusion about what a congested area actually is. A good few years ago now, when I took my PCFO, the instructor on my course said a congested can be described as just one property! Since then the rules have at least been clarified a little better. Yes you can fly over...

I have a holiday home in Borth near Aberystwyth (Holiday home read static caravan) and I fly on the beaches there abouts all the time. Never had a problem, never seen a sign saying no drones. Looked on every app I can think of and perfectly alright to fly on the beaches as long as you don't fly...

I too have had the CAA confirm that nobody owns the airspace. There is however an unwritten rule that landowners 'may' have a right to the airspace up to the highest point on the land that they own. In the majority of cases this will be the height of highest building. If there's a hill on their...