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by toyg 2740 days ago
The airports and pilots actually raised the problem with the UK government for years, to the point where in 2017 a law was passed that forbids to fly drones in the vicinity of airports and other sensitive areas. Aviation activism is similarly the reason for newer drones shipping with geolocking capabilities enabled by default. The problem is that the mainstream political scene saw these changes as resolutive (which they are not, as we’ve just seen) and just dropped the subject. This goes double for the UK, where Brexit has basically frozen any political and governmental activity that is not absolutely essential.