A Register exclusive featuring my legal antics on the Gatwick Drone incident and the support I have on my concerns globally across the drone industry.
www.theregister.com/2026/03/06/g...
A few days ago I was informed that the Secretary of State for Transport had instructed the Government Legal Department (Defence Security & Public Law Team) to appeal this ICO decision which had instructed the release of the Gatwick Drone 2018 Lessons Learned documents.
What people are missing with the superhero AI slop is that it's not AI video which is a problem, it's the use case, most are spamming for engagement.
I suggested to a commercial drone op, the tech could be great for a time lapse showing a site evolve.
1st test: ✔️🫡😀
CLICKBAIT drone story title of the month goes to Sky News, to save you clicking & encouraging titles like this, here's the spoiler - it's just LiDAR mapping take place.
Laser was used to make you think it's some high-tech zapping of the rubbish... Don't fall for it. 😄😉
The Cabinet Office are also waving the national security card for the now ancient Gatwick 2018 incident for a pretty simple question that doesn't justify a fight and spaffing taxpayers' cash in the process.
www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/gatw...
The Met video pushing the "drone" tech in London is misleading, safety has been bypassed using state aircraft, the video features a supposed drone pursuit that is at least 11 months old from a National Police Service helicopter.
FYI: @matt-murphy96.bsky.social
Like I said at the time...
Norway's security services now confirm there is NO evidence of Russian drones causing their panics last year.
It's such a shame the BBC in particular wouldn't listen to drone experts...
www.vg.no/nyheter/i/8p...
At least I've found something Epstein was not guilty of!
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It's not great when your delivery drone is hitting an apartment block in good visibility.
It's perplexing that Amazon are struggling with a task that shouldn't be so hard.
youtu.be/NGdOpR-Mv-E?...
Happy GATWICK DRONE DAY to all those that celebrate this prestigious anniversary. It was 7 years this very day that the innocent National Police Air Service helicopter at Redhill kept getting reported as a drone!
#GatwickDroneDay #BattleOfGatwick
Significant news, Copenhagen Airport while it's sticking to the idea there must have been a drone (airports simply won't accept liability for mistakes) they have now conceded there was no malicious drone, no Russians or whatever.
www.dr.dk/nyheder/indl...
On X @theferrit32.bsky.social has noted the supposed drones in Ireland are almost certainly navigation lights on aircraft.
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I've made a parody music video about the drone panic in Belgium, the sound is in Dutch with English subtitles.
If reflects recent events where a video of a black helicopter was passed on by a member of the security services to a newspaper as being a drone.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBH0...
Vindication for my stance about video of a "drone" at Brussels Airport being a police heli, vindication for Metabunk's ADS-B work too.
A journo has performed similar checks & the police now conceed they could be mistaken, HLN have pulled the videos.
www-vrt-be.translate.goog/vrtnws/nl/20...
I figured it was only fair that Belgium joins the list of countries to receive an official drone identification guide.
Ik vond het alleen maar fair dat België zich aansluit bij de landen die een officiële drone-identificatiegids ontvangen.
This is an old video for reference as it shows what it looks like from various angles. This was today's flight.
Warning! There is a unique aircraft, made in Belgium & has been flying about today, it has already been mistook for a drone.
Waarschuwing! Er is een uniek vliegtuig, gemaakt in België, dat vandaag rondvliegt — het is al aangezien voor een drone.
youtu.be/McFT_Yt56dw?...
I prefer to uncover good news with drones, however, I uncovered that a child has been injured by a police drone, which was difficult as I was initially misled on FOIA, the BBC are investigating.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
@willvs.bsky.social Als je gevraagd wordt te rapporteren over het recente “drone-incident”: drones vliegen niet harder dan helikopters — en politiehelikopters leggen een echte drone makkelijk vast met EO/IR. Zonder zulke beelden is het zeer twijfelachtig dat er een drone was.
BBC News har knap nok formået at undskylde for at have brugt en video og skærmbilleder i deres nyhedsindslag om en "drone over Aalborg Lufthavn", som sandsynligvis blev leveret af Reuters – videoen viste hverken en drone eller Aalborg Lufthavn.
Jeg har tænkt mig at eskalere sagen til OFCOM.
BBC News have managed to barely even apologise for running video and using screenshots on their news reports of a "drone over Aalborg Airport" which was likely acquired from Reuters, it was neither of a drone and not even of Aalborg Airport.
Going to escalate to OFCOM.
The MOD presumably afraid of being quizzed about the Lakenheath "drone" investigation that was likely a wild goose chase investigating navigation lights on airliners, are pulling the vexation card on me on volume, I've only done 3 FOIAs in the last year!
www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/free...
I've just completed the GRC1 form which is used for appealing ICO rulings, this is my first against the UK CAA. This is for an FOIA about a jammer at Gatwick in 2018.
Meanwhile I'm about to put in a very, very, very saucy FOIA to the Home Office.
I actually had a bit of a chat with the Danish equivalent to the CAA this week, they were nice and polite.
Reluctantly I'm off to First-tier Tribunal again as the CAA are trying to hide behind National Security on the basis they can't open a spreadsheet in their version of Excel which proves the jamming product at Gatwick in 2018, is already in the public domain.
#NightFighter
Oh wow after years of fighting, I have a document the DfT led me to believe didn't even exist until I persisted.
As it's now an ICO case the DfT released the document but applied redactions that would make Sussex Police blush.
The case goes on.
#BattleOfGatwick
Yeah after seeing Wright-Patterson "drones" last year I have little faith.
Given what's come to light last week in Denmark, this kind of policy can only lead us a step closer to an avoidable accident.
A few commercial drone operators in the UK have also put in complaints against the BBC's "journalism" on Denmark.
After Gatwick, New Jersey, New York, in 2025 the BBC should not be passing off helicopter video as drones nor should it be ignoring ADS-B.
Covered later on TV2:
nyheder.tv2.dk/samfund/2025...
