flying ground. firstly i found a good spot to take of from but the ground was a bit ruff was a boundary between national trust land and private land ( but a strip of common land )
no building near by and at time of take off not a person in sight, take off first problem my camera is leaning very bad and not leveling, thinking this is due to not being able to move when starting due to the grass and not calibrating its self before takeoff.
i bring it back to land turn off and back on ( this time i have it sat on my case for take off )
everything appears fine until i pan and then i get a very bad jelly affect and leaning at this stage the fun begins there is a shout " your very intrusive" and again " that's very intrusive" as the lady is walking up the hill about 75 feet away from me ( the drone is at 200 feet high ) as she is walking away i take no notice and carry on fly for about 7 to 10 mins max bring it into to land i have achieved what i came for but see the lady approaching as i land ( landing she is a round 75 foot away legal requirement is 50 feet for landing and take off ) when she gets to around 30 foot she starts shouting do you have a permit for that. ps my wife is stood next to me. so i don't wish to have an argument but also don't want to be rude so i say " did i require one ( knowing that i did not ).
next question is "do i have a licence" sorry but now i don't bother to answer ( have to add she is coming across very aggressive ) she then asks for my name and address i apologise to anybody on here who dose not agree but now this is going to far and i am now on the offensive my reply is under what authority do you have to ask for my name and address " i am a member of the local council and we need to now who is flying drones around here in case you are spying or something " ( all will be better when you see the pic )
now i start to play with her and ask "who on earth am i going to be spying on flying here" "well that is a very large drone and what you can see with it and the problems at Gatwick" as soon as the Gatwick word is mentioned that`s its me being nice is all over so i am afraid that i told her ( not in a raised voice or angry voice as i was trying not to laugh to much ) she was very ignorant to what drones are capable off and as far as Gatwick is concerned please prove to me that there was any drones every flying there i then just told here the law for flying drones and asked if i had done anything that was breaking the law.
she continued saying i should not be flying there as the noise of my drone was a disturbance of the peace we did carry on for a bit eventually she asked me what i was doing, so i said i was a hobby drone photo and videographer as this was an ideal spot for me to fly and time of day as nobody was there ( at the time of take off ) ( there was 3 people including her half way into my flight ) she carried on for a bit and left ( i wish i had my sports cam with me ) hope you like the pic The Cerne Giant
(yes i am checking the camera mounts etc )
no building near by and at time of take off not a person in sight, take off first problem my camera is leaning very bad and not leveling, thinking this is due to not being able to move when starting due to the grass and not calibrating its self before takeoff.
i bring it back to land turn off and back on ( this time i have it sat on my case for take off )
everything appears fine until i pan and then i get a very bad jelly affect and leaning at this stage the fun begins there is a shout " your very intrusive" and again " that's very intrusive" as the lady is walking up the hill about 75 feet away from me ( the drone is at 200 feet high ) as she is walking away i take no notice and carry on fly for about 7 to 10 mins max bring it into to land i have achieved what i came for but see the lady approaching as i land ( landing she is a round 75 foot away legal requirement is 50 feet for landing and take off ) when she gets to around 30 foot she starts shouting do you have a permit for that. ps my wife is stood next to me. so i don't wish to have an argument but also don't want to be rude so i say " did i require one ( knowing that i did not ).
next question is "do i have a licence" sorry but now i don't bother to answer ( have to add she is coming across very aggressive ) she then asks for my name and address i apologise to anybody on here who dose not agree but now this is going to far and i am now on the offensive my reply is under what authority do you have to ask for my name and address " i am a member of the local council and we need to now who is flying drones around here in case you are spying or something " ( all will be better when you see the pic )
now i start to play with her and ask "who on earth am i going to be spying on flying here" "well that is a very large drone and what you can see with it and the problems at Gatwick" as soon as the Gatwick word is mentioned that`s its me being nice is all over so i am afraid that i told her ( not in a raised voice or angry voice as i was trying not to laugh to much ) she was very ignorant to what drones are capable off and as far as Gatwick is concerned please prove to me that there was any drones every flying there i then just told here the law for flying drones and asked if i had done anything that was breaking the law.
she continued saying i should not be flying there as the noise of my drone was a disturbance of the peace we did carry on for a bit eventually she asked me what i was doing, so i said i was a hobby drone photo and videographer as this was an ideal spot for me to fly and time of day as nobody was there ( at the time of take off ) ( there was 3 people including her half way into my flight ) she carried on for a bit and left ( i wish i had my sports cam with me ) hope you like the pic The Cerne Giant
(yes i am checking the camera mounts etc )
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