Gatwick closed (mod note post 1)

zell12

Gatwick Airport: Majority stake sold to French firm
French purchaser Vinci says Gatwick offers "significant potential for growth".
The question is, where will that growth come from? Gatwick is already operating at a high level of efficiency, squeezing the maximum number of landings and takeoffs from its single runway.

Carawaystick

Homer wrote: »

Have a look at the map below. In the greater Dublin/Leinster region there are 3 geo locked zones.. Dublin Airport, Casement Aerodrome and the Aviva stadium. Funnily enough Croke Park is not a no fly zone despite being a bigger stadium!

Is this a soccer thing? since the Albanian/Serbia match was abandoned due to a drone

arubex

And can I get my house and property geo-locked? Drones are a nuisance to me too!

Or do the little people just have to put up with it?

Reati

arubex wrote: »

And can I get my house and property geo-locked? Drones are a nuisance to me too!

Or do the little people just have to put up with it?

Geo locking is done based on risk assessment to safety, not at the whim of the little people thankfully :rolleyes:

Reati

Carawaystick wrote: »

Is this a soccer thing? since the Albanian/Serbia match was abandoned due to a drone

No, its a bit of a technicality. Dublin is all covered by Class C airspace. You aren't allowed to fly in Dublin above 15m without written permission of Dublin ATC. You can take a risk and get arrested but as Gatwick shows, you'll be hard to find.

nim1bdeh38l2cw

For those who were advocating shooting at "it"

https://twitter.com/sommervilletv/status/1080724993238069249?s=19

Reati

Paulina Fit Slime wrote: »

For those who were advocating shooting at "it"

https://twitter.com/sommervilletv/status/1080724993238069249?s=19

If a royal with a shotgun can take down a pheasent, surely a well trained soldier can shoot one down

He also left out the fact Drones use high capacity Lithium polyermer batteries who prefer exploding instead of staying batteries. Hence shooting one creates a falling fireball!

AndyBoBandy

Heathrow’s turn now!!

igCorcaigh

Yup!

Heathrow Airport says departures have been suspended and Sky News understands its northern runway has closed after reports of a drone sighting

seamus

We'll see now if this is a copycat or if someone was using Gatwick for a test run. This obviously has the potential to be substantially more disruptive.

Mech1

looks like its open now, plane just took off from northern runway.