Drone pilot

31/10/2026

Happy Halloween everyone. 👍

29/10/2026

28/10/2026

This is information from Ian Hudson.🫡

17/10/2026

Cool.

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16/10/2026

Halloween is coming. Spooky night.

16/10/2026

I gave the wrong advice to someone because of the video that's being talked about below. So it is surprising to see the CAA get this wrong. I should have trusted my gut. There is no minimum distance from crowds if we are flying an under 250g drone. We do have to be mindful of article 241 but that is it.

12/10/2026

I'm seeing GVC operators putting restrictions on themselves that don't exist. It's like people that have a driver's licence but won't drive on dual carriageways or motorways. I thought it was odd but then I found out it may have been done to imply others are flying illegally. To get an advantage by simply talking rubbish. So not nice or being honest if true. They make these extra rules up which is OK until you imply that it's a rule to condemn another. Why part with all that money to get the GVC and operations manual then not use it to its full capacity or learn what it gives. I'm hearing a fully qualified GVC operator saying he can't fly over houses and health land. The odd part is that's what the qualification is actually for. So why is he doing this? It's the GVC that the police are using to fly over cities like London or Manchester and over heath land. So it is very odd when I hear a qualified GVC drone operator saying this and is he misinformed or does he have an agenda. Applying restrictions to himself that don't exist then pushing them onto others. I'm seeing this in the drone groups as well. People telling others that we can't fly under 250g drones over roads and railway lines. This is also incorrect. The actual rule is we can't distract drivers in vehicles and we can't take off from private land. So some are suggesting that a dot at 400ft is a distraction to anyone so would make all flights like this illegal. This is not technically true. Yes if something happened an investigation would commence and there would be a big question around if the driver was distracted by the drone. We can't say this after a successful flight to abuse people in a group because you don't like what you are seeing. So there are no outright bans on flying over roads or rail lines and I will challenge anyone to show me that rule. Yes we do have to be careful and fly safely. I will show you a letter from the network rail in response from the train side of my question and I will show the real rule from the CAA website. Yes we are responsible if we end up distracting a driver but that's not an outright ban. That's the rule and people are interpreting it very differently.

This is the same as dropping things from a drone. I've seen professional drone operators implying that you need a PDRA01 to be able to do this and that is NOT true either. I will add the rule on dropping things so you can see for yourself. So does it say dropping things is completely banned or does it say not to be dangerous or reckless?
I've also added the information around distracting drivers.👍