Recent content by chopcat

A very interesting thread. Although I am not sure how the problem could occur., maybe just here. We have to fly maintaining visual contact at all times so at the point where you want to RTH you can see the aircraft. So if it zooms off in the other direction you know about it pretty quickly and...

Airspace for dummies says A landowner owns as much of the air above the surface as she can reasonably use in connection with the surface. That isn’t a clear line, obviously. Land wouldn’t be useable at all if one didn’t own some of the air above the surface; almost any use of the land requires...

However the penalties for being caught not registered will be severe as they will follow the general aviation precedent. That precedent makes illegal flight a criminal and not civil matter. So there will be the peole that choose to avoid registration but the risk of penalty will minimise the...

First off get an air map. The heli route map will show you all of the restricted airspace and london no fly zones. Those apply to drones as well as aircraft. You then need to check all of the byelaws for the parks etc. You can assume that all parks have restrictions on UAV flight. The air...

No but I am sure you might like someone to stop a load of other people doing it when you were driving the right way

What are the parameters that it sets when it knows where you are...and why would that be a worry?...not trying to be clever just understand how it might affect me. If is is going to limit me to 400' then fair enough thats what the law says. What else is it going to limit? Why would I be...

does anybody actually know what is being proposed. There seems to be a lot of jumping to conclusions. Perhaps someone can give some answers to the questions posted one above. I'm a commercial pilot dealing with ATC all the time and don't understand what they are on about. Until I understand...

Can you explain what is meant by "geospatial information". Does that mean restricted flight areas? If not what? Can you explain what is meant by "flight functions" in relation to where the aircraft is. Does this mean that certain functions, like say follow me, will not be available in certain...