Droning On
Mrs Basil is currently struggling to get sorted out with a drone flying license.
License
You do a course and a test, which mostly covers your legal responsibilities and restrictions, and you log X hours of flight time.
But let me tell you, finding a place where you are permitted to fly is one hell of a challenge.
Searching for the promised land
So the next few days we will be scouring maps for publicly accessible land isn’t in a built up area, that isn’t a no fly area and isn’t SSSI designated, which around these parts, doesn’t leave you with much.
Today we tried our luck with a cycle path parallel to a B road that was right on the very edge of some SSSI land (as in the other side of the road wasn’t SSSI). We were there 5 minutes tops before some jobsworth in a Land Rover was on us like a fly on shit.
Dunno what harm a drone can do to the landscape that all the passing cars won’t, but there you go.