Drone pilot arrested by police

[Martink1974]

You seen this guys , he was doing nothing wrong from what I can tell

https://twitter.com/brightonsnapper/status/550083100349566977

[bigMouse]

Yes but these people only tell you one side of the story!
And the bigot replies doesn't help the situation one bit!
I should imagine that the police are pretty neutral.
Been a lot of crap on the radio past few weeks about xmas Hubsans taking over the planet, if someone needs blaming then take it out on the media menace.

He admits he was flying in gatwick atz, he doesn't say he had clearance, only that he had clearance with a flight sometime in the past!

[Cobs]

He did mention they didnt want him filming a crime scene so seems hes been flying around them trying to look at what the crime was?

"It was nothing to do with aviation law, they just didn't want me airborne near a crime scene!"

No idea what the crime scene was but if it involves murder / terrorism etc and he puts his footage on Youtube etc it could interfere with the case? ...  or plod wants to review the footage for clues?

Bit of an X file at the mo

[mark1975]

he was investigating a recent fire.

[Cobs]

So its an arson crime scene? What was burned?

[mark1975]

just on facebook trying father through all the bullshit lol

[Cobs]

Shit ... your gonna need a larger shovel

[xxpitt]

They arrested him while his drone was still flying! Good job it was in gps mode or something. Wonder how they got it down. Just waited for lipo to die?

[Cobs]

All he had to do was turn the transmitter off, looks like it was right above them in the pic, maybe it was RTH

[bigMouse]

Another one belly aching here!

He should have been fined double for using a Phantom...

http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/drone-flyover-lands-montreal-man-1-000-fine-1.2164432#ixzz3NG9xoJvH