Whats wrong with a twelve bore ?

Roy

Amazing how much trouble can be caused by the ill-disposed. This incident could be anything between stupid boys and terrorism.

Not sure what the best way to bring them down is; could be too high for small-arms and too small for anti-aircraft weaponry. (Hard to hit and track). The success of an electronic counter-measure would depend on how sophisticated the control is. The radio link of a toyshop drone would be easy enough to block, but an autonomous drone programmed to fly circuits would be harder to deal with. Not that difficult to make either.

Dave

These stupid people will make our leaders take even more powers that will further inconvenience legitimate and careful hobby flyers.

Nah – we can blame it on Brexit as usual!

Edited By V8Eng on 20/12/2018 12:44:23

Prevention would have been better.

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Might be a good way to defend from attacking aircraft – just fill the sky with hundreds of cheap, autonomous drones, so that it's just too dangerous to take-off or fly in that region.

Martin.

There are electronic counter measures that can shoot these drones down. I work at Pinewood Studios and we get the occasional journalist flying his drone over the studio trying to get photos of the latest Star Wars movie or similar. The drones are "shot" down since they're flying over private property and strangely enough, seem to completely disappear without a trace.

What would one of those be then? (and we'll excuse the fact it is flak, not flack   )

Edited By David Standing 1 on 20/12/2018 16:38:12

Makes a nice distraction from the Brexit pantomime.

It'll be the government and the CIA trying to get drones banned in Britain

On another forum they have reached 56 pages!!!! on this item, so far Very few of the posters offer anything other than banning manufacture, buying , selling, flying etc. as possible remedies. One or two saner souls understand the utter futility of any such efforts, in the same way that the answer to 5000 DEATHS on British roads EACH YEAR would logically be to BAN the motor car. These things exist. Bad guys and standard human idiots exist! Banning the latter would be MUCH more effective.

My viewpoint may seem uncaring of what is thought to be the 'problem' – Kites have been in existence for hundreds of years; I was brought to earth by one such, wrapping its string around the main and tail rotor hubs of our helicopter such that the pitchchange rods were bent like bananas … quite lucky to walk away from it. These things happen. I would not suggest that kites should be banned and I would suggest that a little less 'hysterical' commentary and a more pragmatic assessment by the aviation world would avoid the nonsensical scenes being enacted at Gatwick at the moment.

rgds

Bill