Gatwick closed by drones

[citizensm1th]

Smokehead said:

citizensm1th said:

aeropilot said:

No such thing existed for civilian use.

yes it did

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_ferry

not a james bond fan i take it?

My father used to use British United Air Ferries to fly his new Mercedes over from Stuttgart to the UK, then have them shipped out to KL. He always thought the german built Mercs were better than the locally built ones.

you must be mistaken i have it on very good authority that it never existed for civi's

[aeropilot]

citizensm1th said:

aeropilot said:

No such thing existed for civilian use.

yes it did

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_ferry

not a james bond fan i take it?

Never operated trans-atlantic, which was what was being asked, and why I said, didn't exist.
The question was about how a US registered car could get to Europe, and that wasn't by any of those.
Do keep up at the back.....

[TwistingMyMelon]

Any miliatary bases operations on at time you saw cars ?

I often see USA cars around Wilts , Florida or similiar registrations and run of the milll stuff . I'm guessing due to various military bases in area .

[kev1974]

Now they are saying it might have been a disgruntled Gatwick ex-employee

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6727483/D...

Justification for this theory seems to be that the pilot knew where to fly it to hide from the military (that didn't show up until several days into the incident?), and was "mocking" workers.

[Shakermaker]

kev1974 said:

Now they are saying it might have been a disgruntled Gatwick ex-employee

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6727483/D...

Justification for this theory seems to be that the pilot knew where to fly it to hide from the military (that didn't show up until several days into the incident?), and was "mocking" workers.

It wasn't me - I don't own a drone, and I'm only slightly gruntled these days

[anonymous-user]

kev1974 said:

Now they are saying it might have been a disgruntled Gatwick ex-employee

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6727483/D...

Justification for this theory seems to be that the pilot knew where to fly it to hide from the military (that didn't show up until several days into the incident?), and was "mocking" workers.

Now waiting for ThankYou4Calling to state there was no drone, no employee, no airport, etc.............

[captain_cynic]

ruprechtmonkeyboy said:

kev1974 said:

Now they are saying it might have been a disgruntled Gatwick ex-employee

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6727483/D...

Justification for this theory seems to be that the pilot knew where to fly it to hide from the military (that didn't show up until several days into the incident?), and was "mocking" workers.

Now waiting for ThankYou4Calling to state there was no drone, no employee, no airport, etc.............

Well from my observations... no-one actually works at Gatwick.

There's people there, but no-one's working.

[Starfighter]

Like the TSA - Thousands Standing Around

Edited by Starfighter on Thursday 21st February 22:40

[IanH755]

A "confirmed" drone over Dublin airport earlier - https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/du...

[eltawater]

IanH755 said:

A "confirmed" drone over Dublin airport earlier - https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/du...

And about halfway down that page

[Efbe]

kev1974 said:

Now they are saying it might have been a disgruntled Gatwick ex-employee

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6727483/D...

Justification for this theory seems to be that the pilot knew where to fly it to hide from the military (that didn't show up until several days into the incident?), and was "mocking" workers.

That makes no sense.

How would an ex-employee know what the military were going to do, equipment they would use, location to operate out of, areas they would scan etc.

[Exige77]

Atleast some questions have been answered like why didn’t the people in the tower get any footage of the drone and that there is otter footage of the drone.

[simoid]

Shakermaker said:

It wasn't me - I don't own a drone, and I'm only slightly gruntled these days

As long as you’re not disgruntled, that’s ok.

[Cold]

The "it was an employee" speculation is just that. Speculation.

It's another way of saying "We don't have a clue, but do you remember when we said there might not have been a drone after all even though we arrested two people?".

[Thankyou4calling]

Exige77 said:

Atleast some questions have been answered like why didn’t the people in the tower get any footage of the drone and that there is otter footage of the drone.

Plenty of staff in the control tower and vicinity would have had their mobile in their pocket, there’s no rule against it.

None got a picture of “The drone buzzing the tower”

That’s because there wasn’t one.

[djc206]

Thankyou4calling said:

Plenty of staff in the control tower and vicinity would have had their mobile in their pocket, there’s no rule against it.

None got a picture of “The drone buzzing the tower”

That’s because there wasn’t one.

Have you been to an air traffic control tower or centre? I work in one every day and we are not allowed to have our phones switched on because they can interfere with our radios. So actually there is a rule against it.

[Thankyou4calling]

djc206 said:

Have you been to an air traffic control tower or centre? I work in one every day and we are not allowed to have our phones switched on because they can interfere with our radios. So actually there is a rule against it.

Yes I have.

And as I said plenty have a phone in their pocket. You know they do.

[djc206]

Thankyou4calling said:

Yes I have.

And as I said plenty have a phone in their pocket. You know they do.

Of course they do. There’s no rule against having a phone, just that it must be off.

Also having recently tried to take photos of a load of bats flying right past my hotel balcony in Cairns I can confirm that an iPhone is ste at capturing small moving objects. It’s hardly a surprise that no photos were captured to me.

[Greendubber]

Thankyou4calling said:

djc206 said:

Have you been to an air traffic control tower or centre? I work in one every day and we are not allowed to have our phones switched on because they can interfere with our radios. So actually there is a rule against it.

Yes I have.

And as I said plenty have a phone in their pocket. You know they do.

Switched off phones?

[Thankyou4calling]

Staff in the control tower will mostly have had a mobile in theih pocket, many will be turned on and set to silent.

That’s how people are.

If a drone were “Buzzing the tower” that to me sounds like it was pretty close.

There were no planes flying.

It’s inconceivable to me that an ATC. Wouldn’t have filmed said drone.