Drones over your land.

steveR

Member
Mixed Farmer
recreational use

estate agents using them now.

pikies using them to case yards etc.

antis using them on hunts and shoots.

animal rights using them around livestock farms.

who’s to know who is using them , needs to be a serious rethink on use over private land.

2nd hand, but there was a report of a drone equipped with IR or Thermal being used by anti badger cull activists. How true, I have no idea.

I suggested that may be the Spotter and Buddy should be issued with AA equipment too :)
 

Steevo

Member
Location
Gloucestershire
This all comes down to trust.

The vast majority of people are kind, considerate and do no harm at all.

A small minority of people abuse that trust and the potential implications while remote are indeed significant.

Society today sadly works on the default that society cannot be trusted. It is why we all lock our front doors.
 
While it's perfectly legal for someone to fly their drone over your land (you own the land not the air above it!) bear in mind that to remain legal the pilot has to maintain visual contact with the drone so realistically he is going to need to be within at most 1/4 of a mile of the drone's location to stand a chance of seeing it. If you know for a fact that he was further away than that then a quiet word with him suggesting you will report him to the CAA if he doesn't desist may do the trick. Obviously the big problem could be finding the pilot as even a modest drone is capable of being flown 2 miles or more from the operator.
 

farmerm

Member
Location
Shropshire
Are there any rules or restrictions on flying a drone from a footpath on the farm and then posting the photos and videos of our farmland / buildings on Facebook?
Only they can not be flown more than 120m high, must operate more than 50m from people or buildings and remain in sight of the operator. Photography should respect "reasonable privacy" so intentionally taking images of someone inside a property though the window would be wrong but of farmland and farm buildings it is a free for all... All you can really do is ask someone to respect your privacy and security concerns and remove problematic material... if they decline you could demonstrate your own photographic skills and publishing your own images of in and around the drone pilots property...
 

rollestonpark

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Burton on trent
to come back to this:
I wrote to our public rights of way officer in stafford, about people flying drones from the footpath on my land and this is his response:
In legal terms, the public’s right over a Public Footpath is a right of passage for the purpose of passing and repassing and for purposes reasonably incidental thereto. If there is use other than for passing and repassing or a purpose incidental thereto, a user exceeds his entitlement to be on the land and becomes a trespasser.

I hope this helps but it is clear the flyer of the drone is trespassing on your land of which is a civil offence between you and they.
So there you have it from the horses mouth, as I suspected it's a footpath, it's for walking along only... no other activities allowed...
 
to come back to this:
I wrote to our public rights of way officer in stafford, about people flying drones from the footpath on my land and this is his response:

So there you have it from the horses mouth, as I suspected it's a footpath, it's for walking along only... no other activities allowed...
It's a civil mater between you and them until they refuse to move on, at this point you use some force, if they still refuse it has escalated to aggravated trespass which is a criminal offence, and because they are still on site comiting the crime the police must attend, just don't let them try and caution you for breach of the peace. (I have experienced this first hand although it was the trespasser who called the police).
 

Swarfmonkey

Member
Location
Hampshire
If you think you're going to end up confronting people then it's worth buying a cheap bodycam from Amazon, and remembering to use it. Security at work have been using them for a couple of years now and it's saved their bacon on numerous occasions when trespassers have accused them of assault (a pretty common occurrence from the lunatic "activist" types we get trying to break into our sites from time to time).
 

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