Drones on site

DBK said:
A toilet roll thrown over them so it unravels and the paper is drawn down into the props works very well from a video I've seen. :)
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I don't think I could throw a toilet roll that far.
I'll stick to being a FLT and avoid these crap sites. :LOL:

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I know someone who had one flying over and around his house at roof height with a camera underneath when they were in the garden with their young children and it had been plaguing the neighbours as well. It was so intrusive he had time to reach a decision to do something about it. He went and got his shotgun out of a locked cabinet indoors and blasted it out of the sky. He now knows that was not legal but he lives in a rural community with a field backing onto his garden so the shot was safe. There were no consequences and no complaints about his actions! Hopefully the drone owner who was unseen throughout learnt from this!
 
I bought a VW last year and I'm new to the 'scene'. I find it a little unfair and offensive to be tarring us all with the same brush. I'm always respectful of the site rules and my fellow neighbours. I regularly see other VW's on site and usually go over for a chat. I can't say that I've found anyone behave out of line. To be fair, I've seen motorhomers and caravaners flouting the site rules more than VW owners, by playing music louder than is respectful to the neighbours, not using the wristband system at the toilets, drinking till late in their awning, etc.

It's fair enough to call someone out for flying a drone and not caring for his dog properly (I applaud you for getting the dog), but with all due respect, don't pick on the VW owners. The ones I've met don't cause issues (from what I've seen anyway).

Arron.
 
rnb100 said:
I bought a VW last year and I'm new to the 'scene'. I find it a little unfair and offensive to be tarring us all with the same brush. I'm always respectful of the site rules and my fellow neighbours. I regularly see other VW's on site and usually go over for a chat. I can't say that I've found anyone behave out of line. To be fair, I've seen motorhomers and caravaners flouting the site rules more than VW owners, by playing music louder than is respectful to the neighbours, not using the wristband system at the toilets, drinking till late in their awning, etc.

It's fair enough to call someone out for flying a drone and not caring for his dog properly (I applaud you for getting the dog), but with all due respect, don't pick on the VW owners. The ones I've met don't cause issues (from what I've seen anyway).

Arron.
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You appear to have a chip on your shoulder I don't see a ything wrong with the OP.
 
Lenny HB said:
You appear to have a chip on your shoulder I don't see a ything wrong with the OP.
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Hi Lenny HB

No chip on my shoulder my friend. It was the stereotyping of new VW owners (of which I am one). I even applauded him for getting the dog.

Perhaps I read the post incorrectly and jumped to a wrong conclusion from the OP. If that is the case, then I'll gracefully apologise.

Arron.
 
wizza said:
What happens whe the toilet roll hits the drone then the drone hits a a child very irresponsible
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And flying a drone within 50m of people in direct contravention of the law isn’t ?

Two wrongs don’t make a right but inconsiderate drone flying is becoming an issue on safety and privacy grounds.

I know it spoils some folks hobby and cramps their style, but there is an issue that needs addressing.

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wizza said:
Yes I do use a drone .Shooting at a drone is classed the same as shooting at a aircraft. Flying over any land is legal apart from restricted zones. The caa own the air space not the land owner lots of people think a drone can take their image ,if low down yes but at 40 meters I doubt you could identify a person these are a 1000 pound drone not 10 million pound spy drone. As for not controlling their dog that’s a different issue https://www.caa.co.uk/Consumers/Unmanned-aircraft/Our-role/Updates-about-drones/
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If someone flies a drone over my garden they must accept the consequences
 
RichardB said:
There are some people who just don’t care
We where woke up at 6am today by the occupants of a hire van - family of 4 decided to do outdoor exercise to music - I think the entire site heard it…
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Seriously?
 
DBK said:
A toilet roll thrown over them so it unravels and the paper is drawn down into the props works very well from a video I've seen. :)
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You just couldn't resist bringing washroom accoutrements into this thread could you! :LOL:
 
Lenny HB said:
Sounds like the addition of an air rifle could be a useful bit of kit. :giggle:
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My lads did this once to some of those bloody chinese flaming lanterns lots of people were using before they were banned.
There must have ben 20 of em set off from some idiots garden across the fieled from us.We were having a garden party and one of m y lads decide to get his air rifle and shoot at one. BIG MISTAKE...it fell into a neighbours garden with the draught 3 doors down who were also having a BBQ, who promptly started stamping on it to stop his flowers catching a light.

Funny when we told him and now we look back, but in hindsight dangerous and not advised.
 
joe and sue said:
If someone flies a drone over my garden they must accept the consequences
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If that happened over our garden I'd be teaching the dogs how to trampoline so they could play 'fetch'!😁
 
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Otter Spotter said:
Yesterday evening one of our VW Camper brethren decide to fly his Drone ( not a small one ) from his camper and proceeded to fly it over the camp site. Take off and landing was within 15 ft of 2 other units with people sat outside them and whilst he was having fun buzzing the site his pet Alsatian dog decide to wonder off past my van off site into the road. I whistled it back and it eventually heeded me without getting killed.
The owner was pissed off that I disturbed his flying by calling him to collect his dog.
Bearing in mind that the new rules are that a Drone cannot be flown within 50m of any person and a 150m of any person on recreational land and the fact that he didn’t have his dog under any form of control, is this more evidence of a new breed of campervan owner who doesn’t give a f@ck. ?🤨
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Well done for calling him out. It would have been easier to stand by. let’s hope he’s not a new anything but an exception rather than the norm.
 
Bobby-gg said:
post was much bigger so the 50M rule does apply, but as wissa states, not if under 250g
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Ok but there’s the “do not endanger”clause and “do not fly over crowds”. For. under 250g…

it’s not just about the rules , it is about doing the right thing.
 
OldCodger said:
Ok but there’s the do not endanger clause and do not fly over crowds. For. under 250g…

it’s not just about the rules , it is about doing the right thing.
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Yes, I know, it's about being responsible and respective, but twice you pointed out the 50M rule to wissa when they were stating it didn't apply to under 250g drones, and it's shown in the document that you linked to.

I fly a dji mini 2, it's under 250g, so legally I can fly almost anywhere, the rules state that it cannot be flown over a group of uninvolved people, but does not quantify how many people make a group, but I trend to fly mine away from people anyway and along the coast

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wizza said:
Beat me to it Bobby gg I don’t want to video people just nice views of coast line and countryside why would you want to video people you don’t even know use the drone code simple
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Exactly, like this one, I took off and flew no where near anyone, grabbed the image I wanted and landed.

And, how many people can I see? How many windows am I able to look through?
Drones have tiny little cameras, not some massive paparazzi style zoom lens that can see you trimming your nose hair in your bathroom mirror, though your skylight from 50M away.

 
Bobby-gg said:
Exactly, like this one, I took off and flew no where near anyone, grabbed the image I wanted and landed.

And, how many people can I see? How many windows am I able to look through?
Drones have tiny little cameras, not some massive paparazzi style zoom lens that can see you trimming your nose hair in your bathroom mirror, though your skylight from 50M away.

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superb. As you say nowhere near anyone which wasn’t the case with the OP. I also e pact you have one of those amazing new drones that doesn’t have that annoying droning noise
 
rnb100 said:
Hi Lenny HB

No chip on my shoulder my friend. It was the stereotyping of new VW owners (of which I am one). I even applauded him for getting the dog.

Perhaps I read the post incorrectly and jumped to a wrong conclusion from the OP. If that is the case, then I'll gracefully apologise.

Arron.
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In my original post I was asking the question at the end of my post not actually suggesting that all VW owners were 👿

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