It’s like on the this clip at about 2:35 where the guy comes out out and calls about drone flying at his location. There is no internet and he has to call a USS.
I agree, this is something that has many thinking they need both on the standard RID. I believe internet is more for joe public first then FAA. Broadcast will be mainly FAA. Either or.
It’s like on the this clip at about 2:35 where the guy comes out out and calls about drone flying at his location. There is no internet and he has to call a USS.
Self Broadcast also meets the requirements.
I think I found it.
From what what i understand there are only 3 options to comply the first 2 both require internet and the 3rd limits you to 400ft and you must be in a special area. Also you need a subscription? Even if you can do it without internet that will still essentially make older drone's illegal as it would probly be cheaper to buy a new drone with remote id than try to rig it up on a old drone. It would just really stink to not be able to (legal'y) fly drones not equiped with it without being in some special area. If they would do what i am told the uk does and just allow special privaliges to those who use remote id and let the rules for the rest of us stay the same i think i would be happy.After the 60 day comment period and then a review period by the FAA of the MANY comments. Then then can even change their proposal to try and meet the demands of the commenters or they can push it through as-is.
Worst case ( push it as is) would be at least 6 months before it became law and even then it would be roughly 36 month implementation time.
In terms of “always flying with internet access” that’s but one of the options. Having an aircraft that can Self Broadcast also meets the requirements.
Good posts regarding this new proposed regulation. I especially liked SkyMonkey’s post above - very informative.
As a commercial operator, although I don’t really want to, I’m not opposed to having a beacon which will broadcast my location to the FAA, I understand their point.
However, I am opposed to allowing the public (which includes my competition) open access to my operations. Also, in the areas I survey, I have limited to sometimes no cell data service (just because cell service is available doesn’t mean data service is). Most of my jobs are for public works projects which, here in California, means I must pay “prevailing wage”. That means few hundreds of dollars per hour for a 2-man crew. I can only imagine getting out to a site, getting set up, then service cuts out. Or as even the FAA’s scenarios admits, my USS provider is down. Now I have to spend precious time finding a new provider, signing up, paying for a month of service, all the while burning valuable field time & daylight. Hundreds of dollars lost that aren’t chargeable to the client. That doesn’t even include the cost of a new drone or the upgrade of my P4 RTK.
I’ll be sure to leave a comment for the FAA.
I routinely drop to 3G on my phone and have a marginal data connection. And some apps won’t work while others will. I need LTE (4G) for all apps to work reliably. So @ARMeyer may have a point. I guess it depends on how the developer codes the test before takeoff. It needs to take such situations into account.You’re mostly correct, but I went through & re-read the NPRM. It says “if an internet connection is available.” Even though internet connection is available, it is too slow for upload or download. Maybe the solution is obvious then? [emoji848]
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