Since uploading a few vids to You tube, I have become aware of the “auditors” who go around commercial properties and goading property owners, security personal and in particular Police Officers into a response in relation to over flying private property with sub 250g drones.
Now they would have us believe that they are crusaders selflessly pushing the boundaries on behalf of us drone hobbyists and are completely altruistic in their aims. They claim that they are exercising our rights and “educating” the authorities in the legalities that we follow in pursuit of our hobby, thus making it easier for us.
That might be true to a certain extent, and indeed, I myself was recently videoing a local closed Police HQ before it is demolished and gone forever in the pursuit of another housing estate, and was interrupted by the sole security guard, and no one else was on the site and I had taken of from a public space. I pointed out the drone in flight and asked if I could safely land it before engaging in conversation with him. We then held a mutually respectful conversation where I pointed out the legalities of what I was doing, and we parted with the mutual respect each of us deserved.
I am of the opinion that some of these “auditors” are just too cocky and antagonistic and are deliberately goading occupiers for effect. For example, if you are going to over fly Police premises, then do so and then if challenged, attempt to “discuss” the legalities. To go into a Police Station and TELL them they are going to over fly the Police property and engage immediately in hostility is far from assisting our cause.
Are these people not intelligent enough to realise that their persistent antagonism may have the opposite effect in as much that the authorities may consider that they have miscalculated in the liberalisation of sub 250g drones, and may actually tighten up legislation and restrict our hobby even further?
Now they would have us believe that they are crusaders selflessly pushing the boundaries on behalf of us drone hobbyists and are completely altruistic in their aims. They claim that they are exercising our rights and “educating” the authorities in the legalities that we follow in pursuit of our hobby, thus making it easier for us.
That might be true to a certain extent, and indeed, I myself was recently videoing a local closed Police HQ before it is demolished and gone forever in the pursuit of another housing estate, and was interrupted by the sole security guard, and no one else was on the site and I had taken of from a public space. I pointed out the drone in flight and asked if I could safely land it before engaging in conversation with him. We then held a mutually respectful conversation where I pointed out the legalities of what I was doing, and we parted with the mutual respect each of us deserved.
I am of the opinion that some of these “auditors” are just too cocky and antagonistic and are deliberately goading occupiers for effect. For example, if you are going to over fly Police premises, then do so and then if challenged, attempt to “discuss” the legalities. To go into a Police Station and TELL them they are going to over fly the Police property and engage immediately in hostility is far from assisting our cause.
Are these people not intelligent enough to realise that their persistent antagonism may have the opposite effect in as much that the authorities may consider that they have miscalculated in the liberalisation of sub 250g drones, and may actually tighten up legislation and restrict our hobby even further?