Death to drones??

[Hurricane]

not looked at the software of these drones, but imagine it wouldn't be difficult to make it think that "home" was the target itself, if you were serious about it (in which case you may not be using a standard drone or standard frequency at all).

I think you are under estimating the complexity of the software and hardware.
It would take a serious hack to allow editing of the Home position.
Apart from that there are much easier ways to achieve what you are suggesting.
For example with the Lichi application, you can just install a flight plan and it will fly exactly to the plan.
I can't remember the DJI software but I seem to remember you can do much the same.
So IMO, you would be wasting your time trying to fiddle the Home setting.
If you wanted to be that disruptive, you could just fly using the features on the drone.
And with a proper flight plan, you would fly round and over objects as required.

 

[ari]

The UK law is quite clear. From our boating perspective the following applies....

A crowd being 12 or more persons

A crowd as far as drone regulation is concerned is 'an open air assembly of more than 1,000 persons'. The regulation is there in great part to stop you popping up and recording part of a large concert or sporting event.

 

[Blue Sunray]

Anybody who has had proper fire arms training is well aware of this.

Of course they are darling, for the reality you could do worse than speak to a few people who were dug in around San Carlos Water just under 36 years ago.

 

[Assassin]

Incredibly tempting to shoot them down if they fly over the boat but I was thinking more of an air rifle from the fore hatch so hidden from view and obviously impossible to do unless they actually fly overhead. Of course I'd prefer to do it electronically but more risk of being caught.

I don't agree that they are fine if used properly. I can't believe they are legal at all but hope that privacy laws outside the UK will outlaw them soon enough. Pesky, noisy intrusive.

Well they are legal and in reality they are no different to a privately owned plane or helicopter flying over your property but when they hover very low and in close proximity they are looking at, or for something and you have to make an assessment as to what they are doing, this particularly irks me because I have a group of responsible owners who use one of my fields and cause no problems for anyone.

 

[rogerthebodger]

Just saw this and it caught my eye. One to watch out for along the Côte d’Azur?

https://www.boatinternational.com/y...il&utm_term=0_9fe1cfcb38-43b0492ae5-234078077

Just get a trained Eagle

 

[Bigplumbs]

Incredibly tempting to shoot them down if they fly over the boat but I was thinking more of an air rifle from the fore hatch so hidden from view and obviously impossible to do unless they actually fly overhead. Of course I'd prefer to do it electronically but more risk of being caught.

I don't agree that they are fine if used properly. I can't believe they are legal at all but hope that privacy laws outside the UK will outlaw them soon enough. Pesky, noisy intrusive.

I wonder if there is anything you do that annoys others. If so you had better cease and desist so as to apply by your own principals.

Oh and I like your cowardly method to hide and shoot then down

 

[Bigplumbs]

Well they are legal and in reality they are no different to a privately owned plane or helicopter flying over your property but when they hover very low and in close proximity they are looking at, or for something and you have to make an assessment as to what they are doing, this particularly irks me because I have a group of responsible owners who use one of my fields and cause no problems for anyone.

You are quite right. The difference is that people who own helicopters are probably rich so other rich people on large boats don't have an issue with them. The issue is that poor people or the great unwashed can fly a drone and thus enter a part of the world that the rich think is reserved for them.

Quite incredible some of what I am reading on this thread makes me ashamed to be part of the boating fraternity

Dennis

 

[Bigplumbs]

Whilst I have no particular hate of drones I have had one near the Boat once and the noise was very annoying.

Regardless of the law, I think that most people anchored on a boat have some fiar expectation of privacy within the context of being in a space that another boat may pass or anchor next to.

Would you expect the boat next door to set up on the flybridge watching you through binoculars?

Law aside ( I have not idea what it says ) I think most of us would not like the general intrusion of a drone hovering close to our Boat and filming.

Let me flip it round. Why would someone want to look at me and my family ? I am not famous. Do they want to film children in swim wear ? I have no idea. And nor do any of us as we in most cases don’t know who is flying the drone.

If a drone wants to pass casually over the Boat at a height of say 70-100 feet I am fine with this. I am at that height just part of the scenary - I just don’t want to be the star attraction.

Find something else to film !

As a drone pilot I take exception to some of your comments. The type of filming you mention would not enter my head. I wonder why it entered yours

 

[Bigplumbs]

So to all the drone haters I say this. People are generally just taking part in their hobby.

Perhaps we need to ban private boats which are noisy, fuel consuming anti social things that spoil my enjoyment of the beach and views. They are environmentally unfriendly and we need rid of them and the people that operate them.

Or are boaters just enjoying their hobby

You decide

 

[jrudge]

As a drone pilot I take exception to some of your comments. The type of filming you mention would not enter my head. I wonder why it entered yours

Simply as it has happened to me!

You may well be responsible - many people are not. The boat that did it was annoying on all fronts. They had a very powerful jet ski going full tilt round an anchorage, loud music and a drone. I left!

You may not act like that but people do, and as always it is the minority that give most things a bad name.

 

[jrudge]

You are quite right. The difference is that people who own helicopters are probably rich so other rich people on large boats don't have an issue with them. The issue is that poor people or the great unwashed can fly a drone and thus enter a part of the world that the rich think is reserved for them.

Quite incredible some of what I am reading on this thread makes me ashamed to be part of the boating fraternity

Dennis

Helicopter and a plane are not allowed with 500 feet of another object unless taking off or landing so the comparison is not real. Further at 500 feet you can read the registration and the owner is public record.

 

[Bigplumbs]

Helicopter and a plane are not allowed with 500 feet of another object unless taking off or landing so the comparison is not real. Further at 500 feet you can read the registration and the owner is public record.

I am afraid you know very little about Drones and what they can do or how they can be referenced to the owner.

I say again ask if anything you do annoys others. If you think it does then you had better stop

 

[MrB]

I am afraid you know very little about Drones and what they can do or how they can be referenced to the owner.

I say again ask if anything you do annoys others. If you think it does then you had better stop

You've got your knickers in a twist today haven't you.

 

[jrudge]

I am afraid you know very little about Drones and what they can do or how they can be referenced to the owner.

I say again ask if anything you do annoys others. If you think it does then you had better stop

Pretty unhelpful response. If I know so little about drones ( i dont profess to know much ) then please do enlighten me.

There is to my knowledge ( which seems incorrect based on what you are saying) no compulsory registration scheme for Drones, and no way the public can identify them using tools they have available to them - the mark 1 eyeball.

I do know about general aviation and I do hold a CPL / IR so the laws relating to aircraft are well known to me. The CAA do prosecute offenders for low flying, public gatherings infringements etc.

Do I annoy others? To the very best of my knowledge actually I dont. Things like that make me feel very uncomfortable. I dont speed into an out of anchorages, I dont play loud music if other are in earshot ( not sure I play it that loud anyway) and so on. If you feel I do then please let me know.

There will be many people who use drones nicely, there are also those who cause a nuisance with them - not just on the water but intercepting aircraft and so on.

If drones are so tracable then it amazes me that all of the near miss drones reported in the press have not been traced back to their operators.

 

[Portofino]

I realise Dennis is in U.K. mode ( Wild West of drone usage ) ,but the Op ,s context was Cote D Azur and the sticking point between the two groups seems to me to be privacy or abuse of personal privacy etc .
Here’s a fab tube vid

It’s nice short and really does all a drone can do , add ,improve enhance share etc etc add your own superlative s

But 1st read the LAW. That’s LAW Dennis .
There’s an ancient monument ,it’s a national park , nature reserve ,a monestry with practicing monks , there’s “ silence “ sighs near the buildings .
Check out the max height,
Check out flying over “ vehicles “ - boat .
Check out asking to overfly ! See 7 !,,

We know what’s happened a lads got off the ferry ,drone in hand and with his GF put together a really nice holiday vid .
Either deliberately flouting the LAW or plane ignorance.

If Jez,s boat was there’s or mine and hovered over the back —- he,s edited that out

View attachment 70364

Enjoy

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=q9bGi3kxXzw

 

[Portofino]

You are quite right. The difference is that people who own helicopters are probably rich so other rich people on large boats don't have an issue with them. The issue is that poor people or the great unwashed can fly a drone and thus enter a part of the world that the rich think is reserved for them.

Quite incredible some of what I am reading on this thread makes me ashamed to be part of the boating fraternity

Dennis

Can you ps give me some examples of the “ world that the rich —— “in the context poor people are exclude , if I understand the above , that a drone admits entry ?