Recent content by Renni Aire

Not all this again. There’s no such thing as a no drone zone. Landowners can ban you from taking off and landing on their land, but, as the sign itself states, the flying rule is not within 50m (imagine a 50m dome over the abbey). So, if you’re above 50m you can fly legally. As to the...

Can you take your drone to Ethiopia and fly? Well, my experiences are detailed below, but the simple answer would appear to be NO, don’t even think about it. Initially all was well. There’s almost no information available, though a pilot on MavicPlilots has successfully used his drone in Dec...

Hi We’re traveling to South Africa next week on holiday. We’ll be camping for a week or so in Kruger, visiting game reserves in Swaziland, staying at the private Falaza reserve on our way down to St Lucia and Cape Vidal, before heading back towards Jo’burg to meet up with some South African...

We flew a few times back in June when we had a boat on the Broads for a long weekend, mostly on the Northern Broads. Flying was limited by the very windy weather more than anything. With a couple of exceptions we took off from the boat, largely because reedy banks are not very helpful - which...

Gosh, this thread brought back memories. When I was a kid, Dad was big into his model aircraft - the house always had a whiff of the smell of "dope" (the stuff to "tighten" tissue paper), and every weekend we would be at Chobham Common to fly. Well, as I remember, a lot of the time the glow...

Hello all We're two new pilots from near Banbury (yes, home of the nursery rhyme and, yes, there really is a cross and we do have a fine lady on her horse) in Oxfordshire We only purchased our Mavic yesterday - we've spent lots of time on these forums researching, so thank you all for that...