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    Quote Originally Posted by Rodney Mills View Post
    Thought you might be interested in this:





    Too bad we can't do the same with guns.


    Rodney
    But that here in the USA...

    And it is clearly not enforced. I have friends who fly for CalFire and they regularly have to shutdown Air Ops due to people flying these over fires. They just will not take the risk of a drone taking down one of their fire fighting helicopters or water dropping aircraft. Hitting one has been shown to be the same as a large bird strike - Google bird strikes to see the damage these cause.

    The FAA continually fill my feed about registration, legislation and responsible behavior but I'm not sure that they're actually doing anything practical.

    I have a commercial helicopter pilot licence, I learned to fly at Long Beach and the RMS Queen Mary was a visual reporting point and a place of work now. Last summer there was a large drone at probably 500-600 ft, I called Long Beach airport to warn them. When I finally managed to talk to the control tower I was dismissed as being worried over nothing. The FAA provide tower service here unlike the UK where it's contracted to NATS.

    There have been a few prosecutions for laser but I've not heard of any for drones.

    SDG

    PS This isn't meant to be fighting you, just putting a pilot view on your post.
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    The DRONES in Gatwick are probably a dummy run, for the Terrorists.

    The Guv should get wise.

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    You will always get somebody who wants to take things to the extreme we occasionally have young lads of the nearby Estate with old mopeds riding around on the pavements at silly speeds with no silencers normally the moped been Nicked. We give too many people too many freedoms and too many human rights you will always get somebody who will take it that one step further than good sense
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    According to news Army snipers have been called in to shoot them down.
    Last week an aircraft in USA was hit on the nose cone by what is believed to have been a drone.
    Any news on that one Rodders?

    We live in the flight path of the local major Melbourne airport and the flying of drones is banned within a 20 klm radius of it.
    Couple of years ago some clown send a dollar coin in one to the local Bunnings one Saturday morning asking for a sausage in a slice to be sent back.

    He tried it again a couple of week later but a cop passing saw where it landed and that landed him in court.

    Heavy fine, drone confiscated and told by the beak in future if you want a sausage in a slice from Bunnings suggest you go there in person.
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    Drones operated correctly do have some good use
    https://gcaptain.com/test-of-class-s...eid=3b737aa316
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    I would be interested to hear hour feasible it is for an army marksman to hit a drone at distance, doing about 40 mile per hour, as an avid shotgun shooter at one time, that with its spread of shot would do the job, but only if it was at close range, perhaps 100yrds or not much more, kt
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    Would a helicopter with radar have more chance of finding them and putting them out of action? Den

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    #16, Keith, by using a shotgun up to a range of 100 yards, 300 feet, to be effective I would think you would have to use BB, Buck shot or at least #4. at a range of 150 - 200 feet the spread of shot would so great it would be lucky to hit it with one pellet if any... plus taking in the speed of the drone... to my mind a waste of time....
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    Why not use a Drone to catch a Drone? If a guy can sit thousands of miles away and stick an on board missile down a chimney and take out anyone in a building ??

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    Something strikes me as odd that with all the technology the various Govt's have; that they can't control this. As Lewis said they can put a bomb down a chimney surely they can take out a kids toy, could it be to keep people on their toes, and that it will quietly disappear?
    Cheers Des
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