I seem to remember reading about a number of qualified drone pilots on staff at Openreach? Is that right? There was an article somewhere about Openreach crossing a river with the help of a drone, to get a network cable to a single house on the wrong side.
I believe that in some situations you have to have exams and be a certified drone pilot to operate one of these things. RevK, the boss of the ISP Andrews and Arnold and possibly other staff, took the exams and AA now offers drone flight services commercially to the the public.
I can actually see the mouth of Loch Shubhairne, a sea loch, part of the Atlantic, that reaches eastwards into the island of Britain, and which opens out into the Linne Shléiteach the water that separates Skye from mainland Britain. That’s my view from my bedroom window right now, looking eastwards towards the mainland mountains. I can see the Atlantic to the east well because I’m so very high up, (equal) highest house in the whole area, the northernmost, highest, house in the township of Heasta.
The sea loch goes too far away from me, into the mainland, for me to be able to see anywhere near to the far end which is Ceann Loch Shubhairne (‘ceann’ (pron /khjaun̪/ where the c is like the c in ‘cute’, and the au like ‘drown’, and the final n is with the tip of the tongue touching the tip of the upper teeth, almost as if there is is a hint of a /d/ before the n) means both ‘head’ and ‘end’; ‘loch’ means either ‘lake’ (with which it is cognate), and ‘sea loch’ or ‘fjord’, so confusingly many ‘lochan’ (pl.) in Scotland are not lakes at all but bits of the sea. Indeed, occasionally there is the same problem of ambiguity with the word ‘linn’ (pron /lj i ː nj/ with an l like that in ‘sleep’ but with a bit of a y like ‘kill you’ and the n as in ‘menu’) which means among other things ‘lake’ and ‘sea channel’ or ‘sound (channel in the sea)’. The last element has a proposed Gaelic etymology that I don’t feel too happy with and needs further thought. Not sure what language it is even. The pronunciation is /ˈhuː ərj njə/.)