Europe gets united airforce – reach for the subsidies
THE European Union is to get its own airforce. Oh, Brave New World:
When European farmers turn their eyes skyward, they soon may have more than the weather to worry about. The more progressive aviation framework in Europe means that government monitors potentially have a new weapon in their arsenals–unmanned aerial drones–to enforce regulations, and they’re starting with agriculture. EU regulators are exploring potential aerial systems that can help them spot farm subsidy cheats and violators of Common Agricultural Policy rules.
…satellite images are unreliable. In some places, mountainous terrain makes for long shadows that obscure features on the ground. In places like Scotland, it’s overcast all the time.
Pull! Fire at will….
Posted: 9th, February 2012 | In: Money Comment (1) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
February 10th, 2012 at 11:12 am
As UK Aviation law currently stands an unmanned drone cannot fly higher than 400ft and must be within 500 meters of it’s operator. So I don’t think the Scots have too much to worry about.
I guess the subsidy monitoring bits of the EU do not get access to those fancy satellites that can see through clouds then.