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The ability to set the altitude to 500m / 1640' is because the altitude of the drone is assessed against the home point where the drone took off from and not the actual ground the drone is flying over. If, for example, you took off from the bottom of a 400m hill and ascended up the hill you would need to adjust your max flight altitude to reach the top whilst still being within the law of 400' AGL. The 500m max is not in place for you to commit a criminal offence which flying higher than 400' AGL is in UK airspace. Only a moron would reply to this thread to brag about how he or she broke the law. Would you show a video of yourself stealing or stabbing someone? Placing manned aircraft at risk with a drone in UK airspace can lead to a custodial sentence of up to 5 years imprisonment in the UK and manned aircraft can fly as low at 500' AGL - think police helicopters, single manned aircraft and not just large aircraft in and out of Gatwick... There is nothing remotely cool or creative in endangering life! Added to the fact that the UK government are in the process of a formal enquiry into the ethics of using drones in the UK - such videos will fuel the debate on banning them here... |
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