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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: aaronjb on 05 November 2019, 08:57:43
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-50293106
I see you now have to pay the CAA £9 p/a for the privilege of owning each drone that you own..
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How big is a 20kg drone? :o :o
Registered drone owners, who must be over 18, will need to pass an online test that quizzes them on using their device safely.
What's the point in an online test? Just get your mate/Dad to take the test with/for you ...
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How big is a 20kg drone? :o :o
Huge.. https://www.dji.com/uk/mg-1/ has a 22.5Kg standard takeoff weight, even then, 10Kg of that is payload..
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How big is a 20kg drone? :o :o
Registered drone owners, who must be over 18, will need to pass an online test that quizzes them on using their device safely.
What's the point in an online test? Just get your mate/Dad to take the test with/for you ...
The point ? Box ticking I suppose, and also having a record of who owns drones, once they bring in compulary registration - then tax, insurance MOT and any other revenue generating scheme they can think of.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-50293106
I see you now have to pay the CAA £9 p/a for the privilege of owning each drone that you own..
What a shame I am currently exempt from such daftness :P
BTW, the £9 is for the Operator ID (ie, owner), and covers all relevant UAVs for that operator for the single £9. The turn-up-and-spell-your-name-right test is free.
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Apart from the fact that the CAA, as can be expected from such morons, have made a monumental balls up of implementing it, I don't necessarily think its a bad idea.
But already, the likes of DJI are prepping things like the Mavic Mini, which at 249g, will not need any of these shenanigans.
And before anyone mentions Gatwick, none of this will stop anyone with malicious intent.
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Though I am in trouble.
I was throttling up an EDF (essentially, an electric jet, that I picked up dirt cheap and built on Saturday) on the dining room table, with the airframe shackled down. Its blown all the shite that was on the table everywhere ;D
Suspect tea will be on a tray on our laps this evening ;D
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Though I am in trouble.
I was throttling up an EDF (essentially, an electric jet, that I picked up dirt cheap and built on Saturday) on the dining room table, with the airframe shackled down. Its blown all the shite that was on the table everywhere ;D
Suspect tea will be on a tray on our laps this evening ;D
;D ;D ;D
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Oh bugger...he is at it again. I suppose I have to get the blast proof shields out !! :(
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Oh bugger...he is at it again. I suppose I have to get the blast proof shields out !! :(
It's only a matter of time till he's on the local news. 'Pyromaniac sets entire road ablaze' or 'Suspected gas explosion demolishes row of houses' or the like.
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Me and the other half are like quivering wrecks tonight.....every time a firework goes off, we leap under the table, expecting the roof to cave in as half a garage (or worse) falls from the sky. There has to be a law against it !!! :(
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Oh bugger...he is at it again. I suppose I have to get the blast proof shields out !! :(
It's only a matter of time till he's on the local news. 'Pyromaniac sets entire road ablaze' or 'Suspected gas explosion demolishes row of houses' or the like.
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Oh bugger...he is at it again. I suppose I have to get the blast proof shields out !! :(
On the other hand, it sounds much more effective than a hair dryer when it comes to defrosting your freez.. Oh, wait! :-X
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I was throttling up an EDF (essentially, an electric jet, that I picked up dirt cheap and built on Saturday) on the dining room table, with the airframe shackled down.
Sounds like a great wheeze! What will.it be propelling? Other than lightweight household items?
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I was throttling up an EDF (essentially, an electric jet, that I picked up dirt cheap and built on Saturday) on the dining room table, with the airframe shackled down.
Sounds like a great wheeze! What will.it be propelling? Other than lightweight household items?
At full power, probably the dining room table.....
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I was throttling up an EDF (essentially, an electric jet, that I picked up dirt cheap and built on Saturday) on the dining room table, with the airframe shackled down.
Sounds like a great wheeze! What will.it be propelling? Other than lightweight household items?
Its a PNF (Plug'n'Fly, ie, just add radio and battery) foamy from Hobbyking, look for "flycat" on their site.
Needless to say, I paid a much lower price by buying one with transport damage, which I've mostly resolved. And lets face it, its "landings" are not going to be graceful. We'll find out if ever this weather improves, but suspect its going to be next year now :(. I was given a Bixler 1.1 (also from Hobbyking) last Christmas, only 'built' that a few weeks ago, so that's likely to be a year before it gets its maiden. "Built" as it its another PnF kit that just needs glueing and screwing together.
Also got a couple of flying wings being built. These are a bit more involved. One of them I think stands a chance of being under 250g if I don't put any FPV gear on it, making it exempt from the well meant, but poorly implemented, new rules.
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I got half way through building a trainer plane once when I was a kid .. wish I'd finished that - always wanted to learn how to fly something; a plane big enough to fit me in would be ideal, but that costs a lot more ;D
(It was one of the giant old-school Cessna style RC planes, glowplug nitro motor etc etc)
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I got half way through building a trainer plane once when I was a kid .. wish I'd finished that - always wanted to learn how to fly something; a plane big enough to fit me in would be ideal, but that costs a lot more ;D
(It was one of the giant old-school Cessna style RC planes, glowplug nitro motor etc etc)
My first ever "plane" (well, it was a balsa glider) famously hit a rugby post within 10s of being launched, via bungee, on its maiden flight. I kept it for the next 20+ years with every intention of fixing rebuilding it, including moving house. It was in the garage until.... ….yeah, lets not go there.
Ironic that I now live near a rugby field ;D
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I got half way through building a trainer plane once when I was a kid .. wish I'd finished that - always wanted to learn how to fly something; a plane big enough to fit me in would be ideal, but that costs a lot more ;D
(It was one of the giant old-school Cessna style RC planes, glowplug nitro motor etc etc)
My first ever "plane" (well, it was a balsa glider) famously hit a rugby post within 10s of being launched, via bungee, on its maiden flight. I kept it for the next 20+ years with every intention of fixing rebuilding it, including moving house. It was in the garage until.... ….yeah, lets not go there.
Ironic that I now live near a rugby field ;D
And the glider is probably also spread across it
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I got half way through building a trainer plane once when I was a kid .. wish I'd finished that - always wanted to learn how to fly something; a plane big enough to fit me in would be ideal, but that costs a lot more ;D
(It was one of the giant old-school Cessna style RC planes, glowplug nitro motor etc etc)
My first ever "plane" (well, it was a balsa glider) famously hit a rugby post within 10s of being launched, via bungee, on its maiden flight. I kept it for the next 20+ years with every intention of fixing rebuilding it, including moving house. It was in the garage until.... ….yeah, lets not go there.
Ironic that I now live near a rugby field ;D
And the glider is probably also spread across it
Being balsa, I suspect it burned faster than it could fly.