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People Don't Like Being Photographed By A Drone...🏭🎥📷🛸❌
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Jul 22, 2025
LB takes a look at: FCC Environmental (Formally Tradebe) Weeland Road, Knottingley, WF11 8DZ Whilst visiting security had no issues with me filming and flying a drone...but a member of staff did.
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You made fire in there
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over property. People don't like being
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photographed from drones either.
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[Music]
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Hey up and welcome to the channel. Today
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we're having a look at FCC Environmental
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just on the outskirts of Nottingly.
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It was formerly trade B but say now it
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is FCC from waste to resource
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and this is a major UK facility
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specializing in industrial waste
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treatment. It features a waste transfer
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station and solvent recycling, on-site
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blending of secondary liquid fuel, a
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comprehensive setup including tank
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farms, distillation units, thermal
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disorption and drum filling lines
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enabling cradletograve waste management
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of chemical wastes.
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This NI center forms part of the UK's
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environmental services known for its
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physiochemical treatment, energy
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recovery via fuel blending and high
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compliance standards. So
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we are here at the start at the car park
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just across the road from the facility.
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Let the uh camera out to have a look.
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It's on the edge of your car park.
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You have got your signage
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FCC from waste of resource.
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Driveway in. You got your height
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barriers on your car park entrance and a
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gated car park as well with another
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height barrier in case you get past the
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first one. So, we'll head up to the main
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entrance
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and see what we can see from there.
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and potentially fly the drone over too.
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[Music]
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Right. So, we are up at the main
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entrance now.
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Having a look what we can see from here.
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They haven't got the signage on either
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side of the road. There you go. And on
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the just see on that one it says trade B
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still on it. Can't replace the full
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signs. Just put their own plards over
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the top.
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We got your
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information about the site
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with your numbers on it.
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I'll have a little bit closer look.
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[Music]
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You've got your pedestrian entrance just
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in there. Another gate to get through. I
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think security is in that hut.
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And you got your main gate to the
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compound.
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They have got a
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way bridge somewhere on facility. I
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think it is just in front of us.
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There is no public right of way and no
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motorcycles or pedal cycles are allowed
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in. So I will be keeping outside
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[Music]
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in that building there to our right just
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as you're coming in the facility is the
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training center.
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See all the tank farms
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down there?
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I've got some more just behind the gate.
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We'll cross the road and see what the
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else we've got over this side.
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We've got a gentleman down there on the
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fork left. is high visit and your way
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bridge is just here with a barrier.
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Is that to see how much how how much
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they've taken off site or how much
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they've brought on.
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They have got the gird at the top with
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the height restriction on it as well.
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Big tankers that come in. There is some
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gentlemen in the room just to our left.
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They say they're leaving me alone. I'm
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going to leave them alone. I'm not going
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to go bother them.
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Move the bike a little bit close to
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where I am.
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When I fly the drone over,
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if I fly the drone over and the airspace
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is clear, so I'm not going to go over
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any of the tanks. So, I'm responsible,
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but I'm not going to tell the people on
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site that.
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Just in front of the training center,
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they do have a sign telling you about
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your PPE
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and no excuses.
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Luckily, I won't need PPE cuz I'm not
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going on their site.
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We have got all the CCTV though.
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What we can see there's one,
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two,
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there's another one just on the lamp
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post.
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Three, and that's just at this front
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entrance. There's probably more that I
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cannot see.
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Luckily, from where we are here,
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we have got good visibility
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over the top
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of the facility.
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So, there's not much really going on
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from what we can see here.
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So, I'm just going to check on drone
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assist.
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If the airspace is clear, it is time to
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check into the skies.
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So FCC,
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let's have a look what you've got hidden
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through the back.
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Right, we are up at 20 m.
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I said we're not going to go over any of
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the tankage. We're just going to stay
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over the open areas. There's your
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training center.
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Your way bridges there.
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some more of the office facilities
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all the way back over there. We'll go
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have a look at that shortly.
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So, we'll go straight up and have a look
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at the tank farms. We'll go a bit higher
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up.
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Some do look a bit rusty, though.
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That is quite an interesting facility.
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There's loads of
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tanks just stood about. Is he moving
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some IBC's down there? We'll have a look
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when we go a bit further down.
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[Music]
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IBC's
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pallets.
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We've got a tanker
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loading or unloading some IBC's. We'll
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zoom in a bit and see what we can see.
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Not sure if he's loading it or sucking
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all the stuff out of it.
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[Music]
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It's right next to the canal as well.
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[Music]
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We got some more IBCs out there.
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We got security here now.
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Think he's leaving.
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There's the rest of the offices.
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[Music]
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[Music]
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Big
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tail.
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So, could you just say something to me?
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But it seems quite positive giving it
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thumbs up. So
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he knows we're not doing anything wrong.
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Got another way bridge stairs going up
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maybe to have a look in the top hatches
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of tankers.
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Loads of open space though.
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[Music]
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We'll come back again.
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See what's going on out here.
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[Music]
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[Music]
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all your forklifts.
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There's your some There's your tanks
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again from the beginning.
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[Music]
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[Music]
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Got some more
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tanks. We've got some Is that an
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incinerator where the chemicals come up
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the chimneys?
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[Music]
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[Music]
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Just having a little snoop around with
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the drone then seeing what there was.
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Some more old buildings over here
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that has got some
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holes in the window there.
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Look like quite old buildings though.
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Can't take the drone any further cuz I
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will lose sight of it.
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me.
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I know.
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[Music]
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Hello.
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What are you doing in there?
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going over property.
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Yep.
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One second. Just bring it back. It's a
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bit dangerous when it's in the air.
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Yeah.
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[Music]
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So, what you doing? What you Why you
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videoing over there?
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Just having a quick look. Being a bit
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nosy, making a little video on the
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place.
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Landing.
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[Music]
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There we go. It's down now. Yeah. make a
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little video on the place.
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Why?
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Found it a little bit interesting.
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Something a bit different.
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Yeah,
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it's a private project going on. So,
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that's about it.
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This is private land as well.
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This isn't out here. It's public.
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Oh, that's public.
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Yeah, that's why I'm not coming in.
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That's why I'm sitting out here. I
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know, but you're flying the drone over
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private land. That's all.
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Okay.
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Yeah.
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Is that an issue?
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Yeah.
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Why?
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It's just cuz we get a lot of trouble
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here. That's why.
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I'm not causing you any trouble.
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No.
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So, we're not allowed to fly it over the
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top?
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No.
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Why not? Like it's
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private land.
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Yeah. But the airspace doesn't belong to
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you. It's governed by the CIA.
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Yeah. Have you got a license for it?
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I've got everything I need to fly it.
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Okay then.
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So, have you got a license for your car?
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Yes, I have.
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There we go then.
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Yeah.
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So, so I would fly it if I didn't.
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Yeah. Just just like people flying the
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drones up.
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Okay. Well, so I've done I'm going to
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put it up again and take some more
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pictures of like more the tanks as well.
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take pictures of other tanks.
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We might go viral in that.
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Yeah, it's all right then, but just bear
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in mind you might be intruding on other
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people's private property when you do
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it. Like people don't like being
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photographed from drones either.
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Well, does it say that about like
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gliders and helicopters that go over?
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Yeah.
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No, they don't like being photographed
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from helicopters as well or hot air
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balloons.
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It's a bit different that, isn't it,
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though?
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Not really. Someone could in the hot air
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balloon come over quite low. Take a
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photo with a telescopic lens.
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Fair enough.
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So everything I'm doing is lawful. So
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there's nothing to worry about.
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So I enjoy your day.
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[Music]
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So don't like it private property. So
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guess what?
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It's going up again.
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Take off.
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And we'll take some more pictures of the
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tank.
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Right, we're in.
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It's over the top again.
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Might as well take some pictures.
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I think security knew what it was about.
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So there on public, nothing I can do.
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All right, we have got a
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lobby on the way bridge.
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So they've put the barrier down now. So
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the lobby can't just leave. It has to
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wear bridge. That was one that we saw
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getting loaded or unloaded at the end of
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the facility.
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Apparently they do get a lot of trouble
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here.
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So we'll end that video there.
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Landing.
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We will catch you in the next one.
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[Music]