To think drones need to banned ASAP

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It's not going to be long until one takes down a dreamliner and kills 600 :(

The drive for regulation relies upon the issue being reckless or accidentally disruptive usage of drones. It would do nothing to tackle deliberate malicious use

Agreed OP! Our local Facebook page has been full of missing drones from Xmas. Wonder what would happen if a fallen drone damaged someone's car, or worse landed on someone. Some twat near us flies his down our street so low, it makes me nervous. Hate the things!

Look at Shoreham, empty feilds everywhere yet it tragically hit a junction on a busy road.

Hardly comparable to a commercial airliner. The Hawker T7 was a 60 year old fighter plane, and the pilot was performing a loop manoeuvrer starting at 60 metres height.

If you're going to ban drones because they 'could be dangerous', then you surely you should ban cars, any kind of over the counter drug, knives... hell you should ban electricity and I can assure you that's far more dangerous than a drone. The fault isn't of the children who accidentally land a drone in your garden, it's the fault of the parents. If your child is thick and doesn't understand basic input analog sticks, don't get them a drone big enough to cause damage. Can someone please explain to me how drones could be used for theft? Would it not be easier to steal something yourself rather than with a drone. With that obvious logic, it sounds like your saying we should ban robbing things, which kind of already is illegal. Move Heathrow? Jesus Christ...

What is the point of a personal drone though? Other than irritating me in a field or almost whacking into someone at a park.
Regulate them if needs be but why get one in the first place (unless you are mi5)?

My husband is an amateur photographer. He uses cameras and drones to take photographs and videos. Thanks for calling him a tosser for having a hobby. The drone flown at Gatwick was a professional rig which could be remotely programmed. Amateur drones don't have a big enough range to fly that far away from the controller and most big brands have a geolocation block on them which stops them going near airports.

There is licencing and regulation of drones already. It's rarely enforced and only just about to become mandatory. The answer to this one is to make sure it's law to have the GPS block added to all makes of drones available to buy (it blocks flight over airports, hospitals and military) and make sure all drone users are trained and licenced, like my DH. The drone that was used to disrupt Gatwick was massive, could fly for hours, miles from the controller and did not have a block on it, so was a professional one, not an amateur drone. This wasn't just a hobbyist or a prankster, this was a deliberate, planned attack.

I use a drone legitimately over mine and my neighbours land (with permission) makes it easy to do a quick check on animals that are a trek away and not easily accessible as we're in a fairly hilly place.
Regulation/banning would solve a lot of problems like kids flying them dangerously, but it wouldn't stop things like flying over airports, there are already laws about that, if your willing to break them your probably willing to break others to cause chaos.