The invisible Gatwick Drones...

[AeroJ]

An exceptionally interesting talk from the recent DroneX show discussing the 2018 Gatwick Drones Incident, courtesy of Philip Rowse standing in for Ian Hudson.

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[Felix le Chat]

Interesting analysis confirming what most of us knew at the time: which was it was all a load of flim-flam deliberately blown out of proportion.

It is also interesting to trawl through CAA documentation to see how increase in regulation since 2019 is justified. The footnotes tell the story. Every cited example of a 'dangerous' drone incident has an asterisk - the relevant footnote then provides the word 'alleged' in very, very small print.

It seems that the CAA needs to re-sit it's English language O-level if it can't tell the difference between the word 'actual' and the word 'apocryphal'.

 

[Exphantomflyer]

Always knew the reports were rubbish, IMO they had technical issues which would have resulted in having to make payouts so instead they just cite a drone incident and get away with it.

 

[GFields]

Awesome video! Thanks for sharing it.