xenon
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anyone else think they will render bait boats redundant? -bigger payload, programmable accuracy?
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wes79
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I saw these being reviewed in a free paper, mentioned a license and some being programmable via a smart phone, I guess with some sort of fish finding app using watercraft geophysics or something it would be quite popular.
being a bit of a 1980's throwback I can't help wondering if I might get a good deal on catapults in January
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The bad one
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A brilliant bailiff tool the possibilities are endless. Snide rods in the weeds are thing off the past. Poaching in the out of bounds areas, thing of the past! HD cameras, offenders caught up close and personal with time and dated photo downloaded direct to the club HQ computer.
Can't wait to get mine from the committee!
Can't wait to get mine from the committee!
peter crabtree
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" sorry Mr Bailliff, my 4oz lead hit it as I cast out"
Asking for it innit?
Asking for it innit?
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News report yesterday of a drone having a near-miss with a landing aircraft at Heathrow back in the summer. Only a matter of time before such drone-owners and the security threat that drones will be perceived to pose gets them banned for the many (no flying of drones except with a CAA / Government licence for specified, legitimate use).
Mr Cholmondeley-Corker (PaSC)
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When I was a kid they weren't called 'drones'.
They were simply called remote controlled planes, cars and boats.
Why all the fuss now that they are called drones and come in different shapes (cat copter!)?
They were simply called remote controlled planes, cars and boats.
Why all the fuss now that they are called drones and come in different shapes (cat copter!)?
nicepix
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Exactly right. Except that by naming them drones instead of remote controlled helicopters they are now thought to be fashionable whereas before they were in anorak territory.
. . . oh believe me, they still are . . . . .
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Plus - just see restrictions when some of Britain's privacy-loving Elite, snug in their gated hidey-holes and on their country estates, receive some intrusive visits. Everything and everybody will be fair game until this influential few says "Right. That's quite enough.".
Does "Fair Game" work both ways?
In which case John may have the solution! PULL!
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Just see poorer postcodes and high-crime areas flown over and filmed on intelligence-gathering missions. Those skies will be thick with drones!
Ray Roberts
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Barrage balloons are the answer, helium filled condoms strategically sited and tethered with braid.
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binka
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In response to the OP... Please God, no!
Funnily enough there was a wildlife programme on Radio 4 at just gone eleven this morning about how drones were being used to monitor wildlife and interestingly it touched on how we perceive these drones generally very negatively.
Even so, please no!
Funnily enough there was a wildlife programme on Radio 4 at just gone eleven this morning about how drones were being used to monitor wildlife and interestingly it touched on how we perceive these drones generally very negatively.
Even so, please no!
davethesax
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being a bit of a 1980's throwback I can't help wondering if I might get a good deal on catapults in January
To shoot the buggers down?
nicepix
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I've just checked your postcode on the Met's crime mapping service. I'd draw the curtains if I was you
The bad one
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More chance of winning the Lottery than a carp angler hitting it with a 4 oz lead, most can't hit 50 acres of water, that's why they use the bait boats.
fruitowl
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The bad one. that's so funny made me laugh
nicepix
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The BBC have just published the dos and don'ts..........
BBC News - Where you can and can't fly a drone
BBC News - Where you can and can't fly a drone
They do have their uses at times This was an interesting, although somewhat depressing video, taken during last winter's floods. Pete.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoVe2rx5XbM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoVe2rx5XbM