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I've been quite pleasantly surprised how well informed and diligent the Police are here in South Wales. That said, and not to knock your points which are quite correct, is just unenforceable with the proliferation of drones and commercial imagery. Still feels like we're finding our feet and a...

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Wow! That's quite a hike. I can't help feeling that all this is going to increase the illegal flying that's going on.

Make of this what you will... The FAA just issued the largest fine ever against a company for flying drones illegally Sent from my Nexus 6P using Tapatalk

You might want to have a look at this: Man fined after flying drones over Premier League stadiums - Man fined after flying drones over Premier League stadiums - BBC News It may be unlikely, but they have hammered this guy so that should be some warning to you, not to mention you not wanting to...

Yes, isn't this one of the reasons for changing the term 'Permission for Aerial Work (PFAW)' to 'Permission for Commercial Operations (PfCO)' in order to make it more explicit that it's about commercial gain? Sent from my Nexus 6P using Tapatalk

Thanks very much. Do you know what technology they use to do the mapping? Thanks. Sent from my Nexus 6P using Tapatalk

I work for Local Government and we have been using UAV to perform relatively simple photography and video survey so far. We are however interested in whether we could purchase a drone to perform 3D surveys of land levels and buildings. I've done a bit of research and can see that LiDAR and...

No problem; that's why the Forum is so useful - to cut through all the ambiguity and achieve some sort of comfort in consensus! Please do let me know if you have anything else that comes to mind.

Thanks very much for your helpful advice and insight!

Isn't the 150m reduced to 50m by the presence of a PfCO and IN-2014/184? The flight is in a city centre, and the point of interest is a large building which is shortly to be demolished. I have access to the roof (for as long as it has a roof) and the client is looking for some pre-demolition...

Thanks very much for this. Really helpful and confirmed what I had expected, which is good to know I was in the right ballpark. I was a little puzzled by a similar thread from the back end of last year (linked below) in which you referenced IN-2014/184 and suggested that if you can take off from...

Hello. I have been qualified and in receipt of PfCO for about a year and have been flying the easy jobs until now. I have just had a request to fly within a built up area. Can you guys advise how best to deal with this from a UK CAA point of view? I cannot maintain 50 metres of separation from...