Recent content by 123taff

There is some confusion here. Some are suggesting that white is “brightest” when in fact all colours emitted with the same power output are of equal “brilliance.” It is the colour spectrum and how we see it that makes a difference. On the light spectrum, colours to the red end have shorter...

It is just as well that it is a universally accepted standard, can you imagine the difficulty for manufacturers if different countries (markets) had different standards??

Thanks for your replies guys, but to be fair, I am not after goggles or glasses that I can wear myself, I am quite happy to continue using the RC and staying 100% legal. What I am after is the transmission to a completely separate pair of googles that a third party can wear, (my Grandsons in...

I used to fly my Mavic with my Grandsons wearing a pair of original DJI goggles so they could see what the drone was shooting with me controlling it independently on my Iphone/controller. I have completely gone over to flying the Mini 4 pro, due to the convenience of flying sub 250g drones in...

I have been watching TV news and in particular the “drones” war in the Ukrainian conflict. The majority of drones they use appear to be DJI. Then there are those idiotic “auditors” who in the guise of “protecting” our rights to fly, deliberately seem to antagonise security and Police staff and...

I am in the UK and use Memory Map software on my PC and "Memory Map for all" app on my iphone . I have Ordinance survey 1:25k mapping of the whole of the UK. The cursor position on the map not only gives the British national positioning location, but the elevation above Newlyn mean sea level. I...

Drones are being used in Ukraine to take out soldiers so it would not be a massive stretch of the imagination to think that the same could not be true of taking out a presidential candidate. Probably easier to ban drone flight in the area than to take the risk of mistaking a hostile drone for a...

My understanding is that Central London is a VERY difficult area to legally fly a drone due to very closely linked restricted airspaces surrounding the City Airport and the Battersea Heliport, (the busiest Heliport in Europe) There are also Northolt RAF and Redhill restricted airspace and of...

I have been flying on or off for the last 5 years or more. Originally I used a generation one Mavic. I also used a set of DJI goggles, (both of which I still own) I have since been bitten by the convenience of the less restrictive use of the Mini series, firstly the Mini 3 pro and now the Mini...

In the UK we have a linked network of fixed ANPR cameras (Automatic Number Plate Recognition) and all Road Policing (Traffic) Police vehicles are equipped with mobile versions of these units, and these link to the PNC. (Police National Computer) We are lucky in the UK in as much as being...

I think his views on this single incident or any other incident spurring legislators to kill of the drone hobby is well over the top and will just not happen. I will agree with him on one point though and that is the respect of societal privacy of individuals who don’t want to be filmed. Just...

Well presented and point taken!

There won't be, those restrictions are part of a statutory instrument issued by the CAA who are empowered by the act to make enforceable "conditions" to enable the legal flying of manned and unmanned aircraft in UK airspace. They obtain this authority primarily from the Air Traffic Management...

It is still the Air Navigations Order 2016 as amended by The Air Navigation (Amendment) Order 2022 https://thecompliancepeople.co.uk/updates/legal/the-air-navigation-amendment-order-2022/ https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2022/321/made