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After the Gatwick and Heathrow shutdowns after some F'Wit was deliberately flying his drone(s) over runways, they are pretty restrictive in the UK:
You may not fly above 120m.
You may not fly within a radius of 2.5 miles from an airport at all, or anywhere near the approach lanes: Airfield restrictions - Dronesafe[^]
Assume it will get more restrictive, not less - I suspect that drones will be licenced and heavily restricted soon, once governments catch on to where you can get a drone, and what you can carry / drop with one. Anyone want to bet a drone could drop a grenade on a politician from a KM away? Once they work that one out, they'll be effectively banned worldwide.
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OriginalGriff: Anyone want to bet a drone could drop a grenade on a politician from a KM away?
Funny you should mention that, some years ago authorities prevented a similar attack where drones were carrying explosives with remote detonation and built-in timers. Thankfully they caught the guys responsible before the drones took off.
After that they added some severe restrictions, even media centers are not allowed to use them for aerial pictures anymore.
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That's approximately the same as in Sweden.
It was quite a bit tougher after your F'wit, but now they're coming to some normalization it seems
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Don't call my T-Rex a drone ever again! It hears very well and would be rightfully insulted because that's very much like calling your horse a donkey.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Rule No:1 in Germany.
Don't fly close to a T-Rex. 
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One like this one here: T-Rex 550E[^]
A real veteran, probably more than 10 years old now and with with many hours in the air. But it still flies as good as ever. And best of all, it#s not the microcontroller that gets to fly it.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Once we (i.e. the public) gets access to more powerful lasers, we need these drones to practice on! And we need we pages describing where the different models are most vulnurable to beam attacks. I guess that it won't take long before have access to tracking software that can automatically orient the beam to the sensitive spot, once we got the high-power beams.
I don't expect the high-power beams to be legal in very many countries. But I would guess that at least half of the high power laser guns in this country are highly illegal already. Getting similar stuff that does not provide a continous beam but sends away all the energy in a single, short blast, would do the trick. For home purposes, we can live with a recharge time of quite a few seconds, even minutes. (I understand that for military purposes, the long recharge time is an issue, but they require blasts of at least a magnitude or three larger than that required to take down an amateur drone.)
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In Canada/Kanada, we used to have a rule that you only needed a drone pilot license if you flew the drone for profit or commercially. The rules were changed last month, after the same UK F'Wits incident and now, "All pilots of drones that weigh between 250 g and 25 kg must get a drone pilot certificate."
New rules for drones in Canada - Transport Canada[^]
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Tough rules, 250g rules out even most toys.
Over here the lower limit is 7kg. Keeping it within sight and below 120m.
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They can by airline tickets like anyone else of a similar nature (managers, salesmen, etc.)
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That's because of the canadian spell-checker I use - don't worry about it.
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I'm not too close to an airport, but near a spaceport.NOt sure what the rules about spaceports might be. I'd guess about the same as airports.
I'm thinking that what I really need is a rocket-powered drone to use at the spaceport.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
modified 30-Jun-19 10:37am.
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Being ill is not important when treated correctly for example (10)
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Munchausen
In Word you can only store 2 bytes. That is why I use Writer.
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You're sick!
Nope!
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Ah! Now I know how you do it! 
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But is was 10 characters! 
In Word you can only store 2 bytes. That is why I use Writer.
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Still following the theme?
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Nope!
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Invalidate?
If at first you fail try try again. 
modified 27-Jun-19 5:47am.
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Still nope!
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