https://www.finchdronesolutions.co.uk/home daily 1.0 2025-05-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67f933e2e56bc43ecf4273da/5af03cc3-d595-42c8-a98d-37035b73deaf/IMG_0212.JPG Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67f933e2e56bc43ecf4273da/28ed8b08-4a55-449d-a5ec-33783c4402c7/VHXDE3827%5B1%5D.JPG Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67f933e2e56bc43ecf4273da/a1615bd6-e5c1-4462-81bd-ee6fff51742e/Untitled.png Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67f933e2e56bc43ecf4273da/22944b1a-b816-4621-aa26-e26925252329/IMG_0893.PNG Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67f933e2e56bc43ecf4273da/9d0e31c5-3ec1-4273-9b6f-7e659ec755ea/Untitled-3.png Home Our drone insurance provider from FPV UK membership includes £5m public liability insurance for all of your lawful flying. Including up to £15k of commercial flying. It complies with EC 785/2004 which is a legal mandatory to fly drones With this insurance it give us greater freedom meaning we can Fly “to a minimum distance of 30m from uninvolved people (15m on take-off and landing) – this forms an imaginary bubble around the person (unlike the open category which requires a 50m horizontal distance) – i.e. overflight is allowed for association members” This 30m rule is only for recreational uses and not for commercial use Article 16 privileges are only for training & sport flying - you would not be able to use these for commercial operations https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67f933e2e56bc43ecf4273da/5bdb8e27-91ff-4775-b7c4-1500e3adb34b/Untitled-3.png Home We have completed a number of courses from COPTRZ ACADEMY making our drone pilots more skilled and knowable. We also received our A2 COFC from attending their virtual training and taught by the brilliant training team at COPTRZ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67f933e2e56bc43ecf4273da/a07c8db7-b277-451b-a442-f13c6118336f/Untitled-5.png Home Here at FDS, we hold the needed licence to fly drones in the UK. We have the licences for the Open sub-categories A1/A3 and the A2 open category. These were given to us by the UK CAA meaning we are allowed to fly drones weighing up to 25kg. The A1 category allows us to fly drones that weigh up to 250g over uninvolved members of the public. The A2 allows our organisation to fly drones weighing up to 2kg with a 50m horizontal/lateral distance away from uninvolved people (people not part of your flight). You can give people a face-to-face safety briefing & gain their consent to then consider them 'involved' or 'under your control', allowing you to fly closer to a safe distance. Also, this means we can fly in residential, recreational, commercial, and industrial areas Also, the A3 drone category states that we must maintain a minimum horizontal distance of 50m from uninvolved people and 150m from congested areas if we are flying anything above 2 kg.