Just Saw A Near Miss Over London...
 

I was outside having a cig and watched this plane on a strange flight path - Another plane was coming in on the normal path in and they must have been able to wave at each other...

When they come over us they are at just a few thousand feet so it was pretty clear what was happening.....

I looked at FlightRadar24 and it was a Singapore flight that had an aborted landing at Heathrow just before by the look of it -

http://i.imgur.com/GkqgQCL.png

I had a serious WTF moment:Oh crap...

Fly your drone up close next time to capture a video

Do air traffic controll have to report them? - It would be interesting to see what happened...

Yikes that's some scary stuff.

too bad that the plane didn't crash into your hovel

A 2 million dollar hovel...

In London that's what 435 sq ft ?

Not to split hairs but you saw a near hit. If you saw a near miss then the planes would have collided into each other.

cool story bro!! :thumbsup

you stupid man :disgust


Eddythedog, glad nothing serious happened... wow, what a story, sounds mental!

We have different flight paths here now btw, since Murcia mentioned its closure :2 cents:

Have you heard anything about the new airport yet?..

I don't think it will ever happen.....

God damned inflation
I don't even want to fucking ASK what a full fledged shack might cost, these days
:(

You can't buy square footage in London for two million dollars ..
Start you a stamp collection

ATC may not be aware of them but there are reporting procedures. Rules are for drones to not fly above 400ft (to give 100ft seperation from the 500ft low flying rule).
An aerodrome has a protected zone around it 2-2.5 miles radius up to 2000ft. Drones would need permission in advance to enter this area (for TV filming etc). Aircraft will obviously descend through 500ft as they come in to land.