Gatewick Couple Receives £200,000 Payout.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan...P3tZiqtoJHso6K

First of all I want to say how pleased I am this couple both fought this and also received a substantial payout for the frankly talking it’s not enough based discussing way they were treated. They were arrested, their home ransacked then interrogated for 36 hours based on the simple fact they lived close to Gatwick and once owned a drone. I am astonished this could happen in the U.K. but it did.

Further to this the incident has now cost the British public £200,000 yet no heads a rolled, we still have no proof there was an actual drone at all or the truth of what happened here. Personally this imo deserves a public enquiry more than many things I have seen in recent years.


The wider issue here is the fall out from this for the drone community in the U.K. It’s left my self and many others wondering if this could be us next. If an incident was to happen close to me would I be a suspect simply based on the fact I own a drone?

As a PFCO and being legitimately registered I have provided the CAA and government a quick and easy target should they need to “get results” quickly.

I live close to some high profile oil and gas installation and it’s not much of a stretch for me to see something similar take place as we have seen as Gatwick. Regardless of if a drone was actually there or not.

I am already aware of one done user who had the police arrive at his...Continue Reading

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