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The police take threats of shooting very seriously in the UK. At the very least he would get a caution and suspension of gun licence should you make the complaint.

Pretty straightforward, just answer 20 questions (I got one about flying in snow wrong), put in your name and address several times and pay your £9.(way less than joining an association) You get an operator registration and flier registration. You don't get any stickers with the numbers on to...

Street map the address before you post. Not 100%, but you can normally spot a rough area...

Interestingly the accident statistics show flying as the safest form of travel measured by miles covered. This biases flying as planes travel much faster. Hard to find comparisons between cars/trains and planes based on number of journeys, guessing flying would still be on top, but I wonder by...

If you don't do a lot of flying then stay with your Phantom.

On the ownership, generally for all roads built after WW2, the highways agency purchased the land for roads, so yes they are effectively in public ownership. For all the rest of the roads they are generally just rights of way over people's land. (I doubt if the Romans made any compulsory...

It isn't illegal to take off from a roadside, however near in mind that in most cases the road is the property of the adjacent landowners up until the middle of the road. Although you still have right to use the road, it may be that the landowner could ask you not to fly drones. Watching those...

That might be a challenge if you are a US citizen as ultimately a claim could be pursued through the US courts who may make far larger settlements that much of the rest of the world. If you are not in the US then this list will provide insurers who will cover you. Ultimate Recreational Drone...

Interesting project. From a practical perspective, in a domestic setting conventional CCTV and IR sensors are normally more than adequate. From a project perspective (maybe also to make your first million!) , having some sort of trigger to an unauthorised entry point then remotely sending an...

In the last five years, battery range has gone from just over 20 minutes to just over 25 minutes. So expect the range to move to 35 minutes by 2024. Anyway with the VLOS rules in most countries, it isn't a hardship to land and replace the battery.

Does this matter? They will keep playing their cards close to their chests, we can just speculate. My speculation is that the Phantom form factor, while probably more stable, has had its day in the consumer sector.

Interesting that the pilot could see the propellers on the drone. His eyesight must be incredible.

What makes DJI different in the technology sector isn't that they are Chinese, it is more due to be privately owned. Without shareholders to (publicly) appease, they make their own decisions and are masters of their own future. After all, you don't keep a global market share over 70% by telling...

Personally I would donate the picture, perhaps asking them if you could come back and take some more. By the way, as a guide to the value of photos nowadays, the gutter press pay the princely sum of of £1.50 per photo for their website

Probably not a great deal. Even when new a Phantom 2 was only £350. If you want a camera, transmitter, monitor and gimbal you might find these on eBay. Personally I would suggest selling your 2 and buying a used 3 which comes with all the camera kit, expect to pay £250 or do .