Drone on and on and on!!

There are many videos on youtube where people fly their drones, under 250g (often with an operator licence and insurance) over various company premises and sites, including police stations as well from a public place and video the whole place often zooming in. The law, according to them and the police who sometimes check on them after being called appears to be quite clear, they can and no one has rights over their airspace only the ground, provided there are no flying restriction which is given by an app and with height restrictions. Obviously they do it for entertainment and money making purposes.

DJ Audits is a good one to watch. Saw this one last night. 

PS I neither condemn nor condone the practice .

I must admit I am interested in getting one and probably will, I think in open and clear spaces like in the lakes or when I'm cycling it will certainly get some interesting videos that I wouldn't able to get without risk of injury. I'm not interested in flying over people's houses and in fact I always wait in ground based photographs for closer people to pass by (unless it's really touristy).

I will certainly be following all legal aspects and/or training and get insurance so any advice Oneputt or websites you can give that would be great. Early days yet. 

I watch a lot of utube vids and one that surprises me is ‘Life is too short’.  Ken is an ex very senior police officer who flies a drone.  The footage is really good but occasionally I think to my self I would never do that, flying  too low and fairly close to people.  I have no desire to upset others so very often I switch video option off for take off and landing

Thanks oneputt!

Just to clarify, I enquired with Sites Dept at EG house a few years ago, to check if people can fly a drone from a club site without having a special permission e.g. producing a film for the Club.

Reassuringly, the answer was ‘no’, and I carry a printed copy of their reply, in our caravan, so that I could produce it if necessary.  Which it hasn’t been (yet).

I have seen quite a few of their videos, currently their videos are from a trip to Norway last year. Others worth a look are Camper Vibe and perhaps Those Happy Days, both usually do some good drone footage and both are aware of the rules about when and where to fly them. Just a health warning is that all three mentioned subscribe to a very different "camping" experience to the average Club member so perhaps bear that in mind when watching the videos and making a judgement!

David