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Battery Boy to get friendly with the CAA
« on: 05 November 2019, 08:57:43 »
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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Re: Battery Boy to get friendly with the CAA
« Reply #1 on: 05 November 2019, 09:07:37 »
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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Re: Battery Boy to get friendly with the CAA
« Reply #2 on: 05 November 2019, 10:16:30 »
Quote from: Andy B on 05 November 2019, 09:07:37
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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Re: Battery Boy to get friendly with the CAA
« Reply #3 on: 05 November 2019, 16:12:07 »
Quote from: Andy B on 05 November 2019, 09:07:37
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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Re: Battery Boy to get friendly with the CAA
« Reply #4 on: 05 November 2019, 18:21:09 »
Quote from: aaronjb on 05 November 2019, 08:57:43
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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Re: Battery Boy to get friendly with the CAA
« Reply #5 on: 05 November 2019, 18:24:40 »
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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Re: Battery Boy to get friendly with the CAA
« Reply #6 on: 05 November 2019, 18:41:41 »
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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Re: Battery Boy to get friendly with the CAA
« Reply #7 on: 05 November 2019, 18:43:24 »
Quote from: The Battery Boy on 05 November 2019, 18:41:41
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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Re: Battery Boy to get friendly with the CAA
« Reply #8 on: 05 November 2019, 19:49:33 »
Oh bugger...he is at it again. I suppose I have to get the blast proof shields out !! :(
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Re: Battery Boy to get friendly with the CAA
« Reply #9 on: 05 November 2019, 19:52:42 »
Quote from: Tainted Tony on 05 November 2019, 19:49:33
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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Re: Battery Boy to get friendly with the CAA
« Reply #10 on: 05 November 2019, 20:02:34 »
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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Re: Battery Boy to get friendly with the CAA
« Reply #11 on: 05 November 2019, 20:08:03 »
Quote from: STEMO on 05 November 2019, 19:52:42
Quote from: Tainted Tony on 05 November 2019, 19:49:33
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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Re: Battery Boy to get friendly with the CAA
« Reply #12 on: 05 November 2019, 21:13:38 »
Quote from: Tainted Tony on 05 November 2019, 19:49:33
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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Re: Battery Boy to get friendly with the CAA
« Reply #13 on: 05 November 2019, 21:23:18 »
Quote from: The Battery Boy on 05 November 2019, 18:41:41
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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Re: Battery Boy to get friendly with the CAA
« Reply #14 on: 06 November 2019, 07:23:28 »
Quote from: jimmy944 on 05 November 2019, 21:23:18
Quote from: The Battery Boy on 05 November 2019, 18:41:41
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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