Drones will have to be registered in the UK, Government says

The Government announces new rules after research shows drones could crash aircraft windscreens and shatter helicopter rotors.
Police used drones to secure the area of the G7 summit in April

All drones weighing more than 250g will now have to be registered in the UK, the Government has announced.

The new measures come after research found the gadgets posed a real danger of smashing plane windscreens and shattering helicopter rotors.
Users will soon have to pass a safety awareness test as part of the process of registering a drone, which may be enabled by an app-based system.
Forty eight near-misses between planes and unmanned aerial vehicles have been reported in the first half of this year alone, and pilots have warned that the situation is potentially "catastrophic"
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Flights had to be diverted at Gatwick earlier this month when a drone was spotted on a flight path, while in June a pilot in Edinburgh had to take swift action when a drone passed just 20 metres from his aircraft
"Readily-available drones which can be flown by anyone can shatter or go straight through an aircraft windshield or shatter a helicopter rotor," said Brian Strutton, the general secretary of the pilots' union BALPA.
"We hope that urgent Government action will now follow to control this proven threat before there is a disaster and lives are lost."