Drone News #57: Remote ID Drone Advisory Committee report. FAA Registration Update

This week in drone news, we discuss a recap of the Drone Advisory
Committee held on June 19, 2020. Remote ID and UTM were hot
topics discussed along with recommended changes to the drone
culture. In the second part of the video, we discuss an update
from the FAA regarding your hobbyist registration. 


Timestamps


0:40 DAC Meeting Recap
11:07 FAA Registration update



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Drone Advisory Committee 


Drone Advisory Committee met last Friday and it was broadcasted
live. 


Final rule in Dec 2020 for Remote ID


I have to be a little cynical. This means that the FAA already
went through the 50,000 comments that were left in the NPRM, in
about 60 working days. That’s over 800 comments per day. 


There was discussions about the need for a UTM and I detected a
hint at wanting to know where UAS are, even in uncontrolled
airspace. 


Joe DePete, the president of ALPA took a large part of the
meeting congratulating his team mates for coming up with pillar
of operation that, in my opinion, are already in place for most
serious commercial UAS pilots.  


I applaud the push for a learning-focused environment but… 


He kept bragging about the safety records for the airlines (which
is indeed great) but also he showed a serious lack of
understanding of the UAS industry. 


While I appreciate that manned aircraft organizations are trying
to bring the safety culture (I do the same with our PI courses),
their lack of credentials in the UAS world reduces their
credibility drastically.


Brendan Schulman from DJI is the only one who spoke for UAS
operators in the field by reminding everyone in the DAC that the
industry had a perfect record thus far with no fatalities and
hundreds of millions of flight conducted. 


Sadly, no talk from the AMA representative for the FPV
community. 





FAA Registration for Hobbyists


The FAA released a statement saying that the first batch of
registration that was recently extended to December 12, 2020 will
expire soon. 


Initially, back in 2016, Hobbyists had to register. Then they
didn’t, and then they had to again. For those who initially
registered but didn’t ask for their money back, the FAA had
extended registration until December 12, 2020. 


Registration can be renewed within 180 days so you can login
today to the FAA drone Zone and renew yours. 


The registration number will remain the same, and 


The new expiration will be December 12, 2023 (3 more years).