{"id":4657,"date":"2018-12-22T08:29:08","date_gmt":"2018-12-22T16:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/3d.coldstreams.com\/?p=4657"},"modified":"2018-12-22T08:29:08","modified_gmt":"2018-12-22T16:29:08","slug":"proposed-uk-law-to-require-drones-to-be-trackable-possibly-required-to-file-flight-plans-before-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/3d\/2018\/12\/22\/proposed-uk-law-to-require-drones-to-be-trackable-possibly-required-to-file-flight-plans-before-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"Proposed UK law to require drones to be trackable, possibly required to file flight plans before flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Told &#8216;ya:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The planned legislation would aim to introduce the mandatory use of an app \u2013 most drones are flown through a smartphone or device \u2013 which all fliers would have to download.<\/p>\n<p>This would mean they would have to register and provide information which would make them more easily traceable, in a situation where a pilot was committing an offence.<\/p>\n<p>The app could also allow a means of real time two-way communication between the user, other users around them, and relevant government authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Users could even be pushed to pre-file notification of their flight before using a drone at certain heights.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There may be a push for consumer-level drones to have a short battery life of say less than 10 minutes. This would reduce the distance over which a consumer drone could be used for malicious purposes.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/politics\/drone-laws-gatwick-delays-grayling-a8694591.html\">Are drone laws going to change after the Gatwick incident? | The Independent<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we predicted, UK law makers are considering requiring drones to be trackable and to possibly require users to pre-file flight plans before each flight. None of which will stop intentional attackers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/3d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/3d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/3d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/3d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/3d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/3d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/3d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/3d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/3d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}