Recent content by Bumfitch

Possibly not, but you need to be both safe AND legal if you want to avoid any problems. To answer your original question more accurately... The 50m rule (from ANO rule 95) DOES allow overflying because it's a bubble rather than a horizontal distance (this practice comes from the old 500 foot...

Casey keeps all the drones he's killed on a wall in his office. His first Mavic Pro isn't there because that one flew away...

Googling your local R/C club is not very hard. With flying comes a whole list of responsibilities - finding safe and legal places to fly from is just one part of that. Just going out and doing as you please is a recipe for disaster - TBE into someone in your local park - even at low speed - and...

Suggest you stop looking for excuses not to fly and get out and enjoy it. The 400 foot Britain competition launched by the CAA should give you some ideas of what's possible whilst staying within the law. Drone's eye view - CAA and VisitEngland launch '400ft Britain' | UK Civil Aviation Authority

If your back garden isn't big enough then find a field, ask the owner, job done. If you can't do that - find your local model flying club and ask them where they go, job done. If you can't do that - find your local model shop and ask them where everyone goes, job done. The rules are there to...

Not when flying downwind it wouldn't.

With a surface wind of just 7kts your P3A 'flying blender' will cover 50 metres in just 2.5 seconds. In fact by the time you've finished reading this paragraph it could have covered 200 metres. There's nothing draconian about safety.