UK Drone Regulation

[beesleyboy]

I hate all this hassle, just typical that a hobby I'm passionate about has so many potential restrictions associated with it.
I also hate some of the commercial model pilots going on shows slagging of recreational pilots saying we are giving model flying a bad name, I have been designing and flying copters from the early day's, but because I don't need to make money from my hobby, I'm a pest to the public.
As many of you guy's have stated in the past, the nutters flying irresponsible will always do it and the chances are thay won't be in a club or even know anyone else that fly's.
I could go and get a licence, but it doesn't necessarily mean it will improve my flying or make me more responsible or give me the right to think I'm safer than the next person.
As far as sky's full of drones.
I can't see the air being full of delivery copters until battery technology moves on a cupola of decades, I can see them being used for search and rescue or crowed control servalants. I think micro drones will be more likely clusters of sensors swarming buildings after earthquakes or servalants at big events like the Olympics, one's that will automatically dock and charge throughout the day.

[Loopdreams]

I can see them being used for search but the "and rescue" bit would still need the grown ups to help with their helicopters or boats or whatever.  And all these uses are so niche as to make regulation of recreational users a total irrelevance.  When it all shakes down the authorities will recognise that actually just wanting a flying camera to dick around with will be about the most numerous and profitable use case for this "game changing" technology.

[BlueFlyer]

I received a reply, saying they don't have the Word Doc version of the survey.

But they gave me a link instead:

http://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/BJVII/