Everything that is now illegal was once legal. As we progress eventually everything will be illegal unless you have the correct license, in fact we are almost there.
I fly mine at home on my 20achers with an airport rite down the street and I dont have remote id and nothing has ever happened and I definitely don't plan on getting it im also building a big nitro plane to fly at home I dont go anywhere to fly but my house nobody is going to tell me I can't fly on my own property
RemoteID exposed that the FAA has no idea what is in the sky unless there is hardware that tells them. Now any foreign actor knows just not to use remoteID and can be tracked. Good work FAA.
That's how it's always been. In war, it's safe to assume that any airborne threat without an IFF transponder is the enemy. Not so in the civilian world.
@@16-BITFPV You'd think at least around sensitive areas active radar, LIDAR, RF control signal sniffing, and possibly Visual and Acoustic detection systems (even if that is just people with binocular) would be in use. Actually easy enough to detect and track even the small drone if you are looking (especially at the altitudes xjet is talking about. As the hard part is verifying it isn't a perfectly natural feather covered bird at altitude, close to the ground there is so much more noise in the signals its trickier... So if you do a RemoteID concept right its really not more than a transponder that means the folks on the ground and those you are sharing the airspace with know who you are, where you are etc to avoid accident - anything that isn't broadcasting a 'I'm XYZ, I'm your freind' signal is likely hostile and should be investigated or just destroyed...
Remote ID was an effort to close down the consumer side of drones; it's not meant to do anything otherwise; just allow big businesses to have unfettered access to the skies. Anything else is incidental. With any failure, it's just going to result in the powers that be suggesting that they need to go further with more restrictions on consumer drones.
@@TheBoatPirate Made me consider a potential drone false flag casualty event occurring in the future in order to push draconian regs through. I hope Im wrong. Did you know Adam Lana's Mother worked for DARPA? That almost all the parents who supposedly lost children at Sandy Hook had their mortgages fully paid off over 18 months prior to the school shooting event on Christmas day morning? Never would have dreamt that but the county real estate documentation is in black and white. Rabbit hole turns into a cavern once anyone start looking at many of these events
Screw you for wanting a hobby/learn a skill/just have fun, amazon needs to deliver cat food to the stay at home dog mom. Please install a 150$ tracker to do 1/2 of what a software could do on a free/paid app the FAA made to track your radio output to receive telemetry data, but that wouldn't make the faa money while taking Amazon's green sea
I’m so glad you’ve got the balls to tell it like it is. On some other sites, it’s blasphemy to even utter under your breath, a dislike for RID. Another one is “needing” a spotter while flying FPV while you’re flying through hoops in the middle of a soccer field early in the morning. C’mon !
Reminds me of back in the day when CB radios in cars and trucks became a hot thing. FCC rules said you needed a license...but there were simply so many CBs out there that enforcement of the rule was virtually non-existent. Tons of people were using the things and virtually nobody got arrested.
The biggest problem with RID is that it shows the location of pilots, think about it, you are flying with your goggles on and someone comes up from behind and hits you on the head and takes off with all of your stuff.
OMG, I must give up even more of my personal freedom in order to keep the kids safe! ... oh wait, maybe no. I was listening and you are right and have always been. Keep up the good work Bruce.
Bruce,I knew this would happen.I never complyed in the first place.I dont have any modules or FAA registration numbers.All I did was take the FREE Trust test and got my certificate.I havent even flown much this year at all.
I had a male “Karen” who thought they knew about drone regs try to call me out on my 4 inch FPV quad weight. I said yeah its under 250g. Mr Karen said no way it is. I said wheres your calibrated scale? Same answer to any cops with that question. Ill be long gone if they show up with digital scale
Man, you did so much for the hobby. Keep up the good job and I hope you can do videos explaining the FPV and other stuff for us for me. You are the God of the FPV technology, and how things work , for that thank you so much
X-jet was right ? RID is a scam ?? The federal government squeezing money out of its citizens ?? Now who would've ever guessed this twist in the plot !! 😂🎉 ❤ love you dad
As I’ve always said, it won’t be the criminals that register their drones, it will only be the law abiding citizens. There is literally nothing keeping anyone from being a bad actor, which will ruin the hobby for everyone.
Hey Bruce, have you seen the U.K. news? Not only do we have to register our drones (for some time now) We now have to register chickens , not just farmers , that includes if you have pet chickens, yup ever single chicken individually. The U.K. has gone mad, I’m registering some rocks tonight as chickens, if they want to check I will just claim I’m insane, 🤔🤣🤣🤣🤯🤯🤯🤪
People don't realise, but this is the slow escalation into Big Brother state. This includes monitoring our vehicles through 'climate change clean air zones'. These people that rule us currently can't make do with just taxing us to death, they want to see when we eat, poo and raise chickens. Sadly.
In Britain from Tuesday 1st October it will be a criminal offence to keep a chicken without registering it with the authorities. So.... Everyone Register that you have a chicken. Overload the system. If everyone has a chicken registered how will they check? I've just registered mine I'll tell them it died next week, if you have one in the freezer register that, especially if you have a pet budgie or parrot that identifies as a chicken... even the cat or dog can qualify, if you have a mental illness, you could have an imaginary chicken friend pet….🤔😳
Before commercial drones were available, there were hobbyists building quadcopters, hexacopters and octocopters from scratch and sharing design information online. There is nothing stopping a technically skilled person from digging up the designs from the Web and building one's own drones that don't embody Remote ID and potentially greatly exceed the range and altitude capabilities of those early efforts.
when it was first proposed on ADSB frequencies it made sense. There's the possibility for manned aircraft to find the drones and actually improve safety. Sadly it has nothing to do with safety, it's just about controlling the public.
Wow who'd a thunk it, criminals will break laws. Politicians: "if we make laws against it we can stop it." Normal people "Don't we call them criminals because they break the laws?" I would support tech that gives out a transponder like signal that shows up on aircrafts instruments letting pilots know a hobby aircraft is being operated and caution should be observed. Much like the system Bruce had been working on.
Funny, isn't it. Most commonly available camera drones have a service ceiling of about 4000m - so even if you can hack the firmware, you can't get up to the kind of heights of these claimed sightings.
I hope you find some aerial footage soon. I’m curious about the jet fighters spotting drones, so you’ve for sure given me homework. I don’t mind tho. Have fun, and good times!
This past weekend .. "An unprecedented number of airplanes, helicopters, and drones swooping in to help with Hurricane Helene recovery efforts are now posing a safety hazard. There were 30 near-mid-air collisions last Saturday," according to a federal source. The major issue here is that the general aviation principle of "seen and be seen" is broken when it comes to FAA rules/procedures for crewed and uncrewed aircraft. Both crewed and uncrewed aircraft are essential in post-event disaster scenarios like with hurricane Helene. Drones to inspect infrastructure and identify people in need of rescue and supplies. Crewed helicopters and airplanes to airlift people and supplies. Add in the varied terrain in a mountainous region where drones are flying below 400 feet AGL (ground reference), while crewed vehicles are operation based on pressure altitude ASL (sea level reference), and potential for overlapping operations greatly increases. The FAA and FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Admin) really need to re-examine such scenarios as we see more climate induce disasters and catastrophic weather events (flooding, hurricanes, wildfires, etc). So far the policy with respect to wildfires is to ground crewed aircraft if any drone is spotted flying. This greatly hampers efforts by firefighters, as unexpected delays are introduced randomly. Much time wasted in attempts to track down a drone operator. Ideally both crewed and unscrewed aircraft would broadcast on common frequencies so they could be seen and alerted to each others presence. ie: a common shared frequency for sharing position and altitude data.
The new rules in NZ are a joke. We have/had Jet Aircraft pilots(Air NZ) at my RC Club. They now arnt qualifiied to be a spotter for RC flyers . Seems real pilots arnt qualified enough to look out for low flying planes . We'll see how many in NZ DONT choose to resit their Wings badges , now that many have to be renew them next year (now a required 5 year renewal) . I bet many will say stuff it rather than re-sit wings & just fly at a park rather than a RC Club with the RC Club's restrictive rules & regs
MFNZ, the "recognised organisation" for RC model flying, has a very tricky problem on its hands -- trying to appease the bureaucrats whilst protecting the freedoms of its members. Personally, I believe they should have stood up for our rights more than they have done (but others will doubtless disagree and I respect their opinions). What MFNZ, CAA and MoT have to understand is that you can tie someone up with the rubber bands of over-regulation and keep increasing the tension but eventually, when you over-do it, those bands will snap and become useless. I believe we're reaching that point now. Our current ruleset for RC/drones (part 101) came into effect in 2015 and there have been no substantive changes since. We used to be smart enough to realise that something under 100g was just a toy and ought not be covered by regulations that also cover 14.9Kg octocopters -- but that is no longer the case. Whereas other countries (such as Canada and the UK) have recognised that sub250g craft are pretty harmless, and are therefore pretty unrestricted, we have no such intelligence behind our rules and I break the rules every time I fly my 25g Mobula 6 around the house using FPV. MFNZ has said "no problem, just apply for a BVLOS waiver" -- but the brainboxes at MFNZ and CAA still believe that to fly a 25g tinywhoop around my house I'd need signs, traffic management and an armful of forms before such an activity could be performed safely. I've got news for them... I do this several times a week (without the bureaucratic overhead) and hardly anyone has died as a result. The property-permission provision of 101 is also being widely ignored because it effectively means that every part of NZ, aside from a few council parks and your own property, is a no-fly zone unless you can get the permission of those who own or occupy that property. Tourists coming to NZ with their drone will have almost zero opportunity to fly it legally under this part of the rule -- so they just do it illegally, often out of ignorance. Where are the bodies? After consulting, back in 2021 we were promised changes. We're now approaching 2015 and we've got nothing. CAA often refers to itself as a "fast follower" in terms of regulation. Not this time eh?
I agree the goal is to clear the skies. These violating drones in the USA reported by using RID will mean the gov't will double down on RID. Just wait for RID 2.0 where the RID module MUST comply will being able to receive and MUST be connected to the flight controller. In Canada, sub250 is still safe for recreational and commercial use. No license or registration required, but I can't see Transport Canada leaving sub250 alone as they eventually cave in to commercial interests and the need to create rules to justify there positions and copy the rules of the FAA.
Actually, First Responders are using RID receivers to detect drones flying in the TFR's that are in the hurricane Helene area. They are able to find people flying in the TFR and contact the pilot to get the drone on the ground so first responder helicopters can look for survivors and deliver supplies.
New Zealand, after Covid, showed me that NZ is owned and operated by bad actors. And there Jacinda Ardern was with BlackRock. Great video as always, love a good rant!
Hah! That's my neck of the woods. There's definitely a bit of open air space relatively close to the base. I remember flying in 2019 within 5 miles of Luke and didn't even realize it was that close. ( obviously I knew it was close just never considered how close) I was flying just on the side of the road as police car are driving by and still nobody said a single thing to me.
Other possible reasons Bruce. I would not at all exclude the possibility that many if not all of these sighting are either pilots misinterpreting what they have "seen" (recall what has been said before about how difficult it will be to see a small (or even medium sized) UAV from an aircraft travelling at 400-500 mph (or even faster if military jets)), or it is a narrative put out there to help the agenda of the military. You can just imagine the conversation about needing a reason to increase military spending or put in place even more rules to keep pesky UAV fliers out of the skies so they are free for military use (note that the vast majority of airspace is for military use). I agree though that RID is a piece of nonsense and does nothing for safety. I have submitted these views to our CAA when they have "consulted" (i.e. done what they have to by statute, but with no real intention to listen to the responses) on RID and other changes to UAV rules. Risk-based legislation? They wouldn't know it if it jumped up and bit them (and clearly they won't have done their risk assessment on that happening!). P.S. I just watched that P.O.S. news report. Sensationalist rubbish. What has happened to proper investigative journalism, checking facts, questioning the narrative? All gone to crap it seems (plus the ominous music whenever a drone in flight was being shown!). Holy crap and I thought our news reporting was rubbish.
@@cambridgemart2075 Exactly. Fast forward a few months to the New Jersey alien invasion / Iranian war drones fiasco and you see exactly what some ill informed / paranoid thinking combined with mass hysteria can do. To quote private Frazer "We're all doomed..."!
If government's can bend the rules when it suits them. Then I think the public can do the same. Corrupt politicians make their own rules to suit the narrative. Go fly your RC Toys and have fun. I will not call them drones anymore. RC Helicopters, RC planes, Multirotors or Quads. Drone is a word I do not associate with the Hobby.
Good to see you, Bruce! I dont pay any attention to the FAA restrictions in my overly regulated area. Other than the golden rule- don't be an as$hole. No cuffs or fines, so far. Screw em, Bruce. Fly anyway. Film it all. If the CAA tries to use your footage agaisnt you, tell em it's an A I generated video. It wasnt you flying. It was Arnie! 👍
A nearby military base here in Australia operates a commercial drone detector system with a 5km range. It detects the interface signals between the drone and controller. As to doing something about it like jamming or spoofing the signal, they are currently not empowered. I suppose they could coordinate with the Police to figure out who was at the controller's location via mobile phone pinging, or even attendance if they are fast enough. Unlikely to occur unless it is a regular or persistent thing.
With my Fimi drones, I can fly with “Airplane Mode” enabled on both my phone and tablet. This also prevents drone pausing for new firmware updates that I know I don’t need. I fly safely but will NEVER comply with BS regulation like remote ID.
Instead of requiring RID for everyone it only should only have been required when flying in specific sensitive locations, the law should be that anything found in sensitive areas without RID will be subject to being shot down.
They wanted the original plan for network remote ID though LOL. Broadcast rid was their fallback plan if I recall correctly. The network rid would have been real bad and I'm sure it's still their eventual goal.
I hope I don;t get that cranky when I get old, I'm 74 now and enjoy flying and don't get all twisted about rules I can either comply with or choose to ignore where appropriate.
This is a very important story to get out. This proves a few things: 1. Remote ID will never work. 2. The feds will only use remote ID to go after hobbyists who break a rule for benign purposes. 3. Going after hobbyists is a form a scapegoating to make it look like the government is in control when they are certainly not. 4. If foreign actors want to spy on us, there are plenty of ways they can obtain a drone that is unrestricted in software any fly it illegally where ever they want in the US. 5. The Chinese balloon was nothing. The Chinese and many other countries are probably flying drones where ever they want in the U.S. as we speak! 6. Banning hobbyists from buying drones which have all software restrictions anyway (DJI) will only prevent U.S. citizens from learning how to fly and use drones. I can tell you that a technology like drones cannot be stopped. The only solution is to develop and build specialized drones that are designed to go after violating drones and either capture or destroy them.
Nicly spoken Bruce, als always, you are completely right. This is all done to let us pay and tell us to comply. I will never. Not just for this very nice hobby but also the other things like the 💉or go full electric, no CO2 bull and more nonsense. Keep up the good work.
IDK if I can agree that RID can't be seen from far away. If some of these ocean ships turn their radar up they can see your head floating on a wavy ocean to come save you from the cold-water. Some of these cities have shown off their command-centers where they have access to cameras all over the city. I really need to find the video but in the CC they had access to police-body-cameras, the planes flying over the city to track speeders... just all sorts of fancy stuff to put up on the 50-100 screens.
If I do, I'll be in breach of the council's diktat which also places me in breach of CAA's regulations so I face being tresspassed, arrested and fined. The council has even banned me from filming on their property so I can't even show others flying at the airfield without risk of tresspass and arrest. I have a great video of our beloved mayor using the F-word during a session of council that was livestreamed to the world. Great people!
So I get this right a jet fighter pilot flying around at least 200 mph saw a drone a mile away. Now even the biggest drone's we have are the size of a microwave or a large goose, how can a pilot spot something that small from a mile away and doing 200+ mph. Realistically some of these drone reports are simply impossible to happen, maybe they should have a look at the people who report them.
china has bought countless acres by our military bases and the current administration is doing nothing about it. and the chinese government operating those supposedly impossible to explain drones is the only reasonable explanation.
Droneup was doing drone deliveries around town up until recently. I never once saw one on drone scanner and there is no way they were up that high.... but regardless RID is useless.
Drone sightings but no visual ID to confirm. I wonder which government agency these drones really belonged to? Here in UK we do not yet have the stupidity of Remote ID. Instead, we fine motorhome owners £3000 for reporting illegal entry by would be illgal mmigrants. We shut down the last coal fired power station as the cost of electricity rises with every windmiill and solar panel that comes into use becoming one of the world's highest priced (75% more than in the USA), The government takes money designated to keep pensioners warm and gives it to train drivers. Certain old people calling police nasty names can find themselves doing a two year stretch for the "offence" within a couple of weeks while other certain young people can break a police officers nose and still be left walking the streets. Sorry Bruce but it appears the real madhouse has yet to reach you.
Bruce, a mate of mine doing security at Pearce Airforce base over here in Western Australia say they shoot down, on average, 1 drone a week that is operating within the perimeter of the active airport. no rfid required... Ya think that will change if an rfid requirement is invoked? yeah, naah.
All remote id and the other over-baked regulations did for me was drive me out of the sport! I used to fly my little Latrax Alias every night in my own driveway, never venturing more than 10m up, but then the absurd regulations started showing up so legally I couldn't even fly within 5 miles of any school yard (which could theoretically be emergency med-evac landing sites) which meant as a disabled person I was realistically out of luck at being able to fly anywhere. Gave away my big GPS Free-X drone (that I had just added FPV to, but never even got to fly it that way) after that, cause I sure couldn't use it... (I know, all the people who live in the wide open spaces of the American mid-west and south west will say "Oh, just ignore the regulations and fly anyway"! Doesn't work when one out of ever 5 of my neighbors work for the Federal government in a highly populated area. $10,000 fines just for flying in my drive way aren't worth it)!
I live within 3 miles of a class C airport. Fly my helicopters in my front yard, street in my subdivision DAILY for 10 years. Never had anyone, let alone authorities, create an issue. I say fly as you always have. Its so unlikely you'll have an issue.
Yea, never understood why anyone would expect criminals to fit a remoteID in their drones. I assume the people deciding on this expect everyone to just buy ready made drones that will have remoteID built in.
We have a 'foreign' secretary who thinks Marie Antoinette discovered radium, and Henry 7th succeeded Henry 8th and just gave away a british protectorate against its inhabitants wishes, so yea things are pretty grim!
If a person flies a drone in the woods, without RID, and no one else is around, did that person actually fly a drone?
Only if a tree heard it.
Schrodingers wood.
oh look an sdcard I found laying there!
I love your analogy
Yes, straight to jail!
People who fly illegally won't bother with remote id.
Everything that is now illegal was once legal.
As we progress eventually everything will be illegal unless you have the correct license, in fact we are almost there.
The only people impacted by these regulations are law abiding citizens of course. They were the target all along werent they.
Then stop being law abiding.
who would have thought of that 🤣
I fly mine at home on my 20achers with an airport rite down the street and I dont have remote id and nothing has ever happened and I definitely don't plan on getting it im also building a big nitro plane to fly at home I dont go anywhere to fly but my house nobody is going to tell me I can't fly on my own property
every normal thinking person should/could have seen this comming, thanks for reporting
RemoteID exposed that the FAA has no idea what is in the sky unless there is hardware that tells them. Now any foreign actor knows just not to use remoteID and can be tracked. Good work FAA.
That's how it's always been. In war, it's safe to assume that any airborne threat without an IFF transponder is the enemy. Not so in the civilian world.
Common sense, how would anything be tracked without hardware?
@@16-BITFPV You'd think at least around sensitive areas active radar, LIDAR, RF control signal sniffing, and possibly Visual and Acoustic detection systems (even if that is just people with binocular) would be in use. Actually easy enough to detect and track even the small drone if you are looking (especially at the altitudes xjet is talking about. As the hard part is verifying it isn't a perfectly natural feather covered bird at altitude, close to the ground there is so much more noise in the signals its trickier... So if you do a RemoteID concept right its really not more than a transponder that means the folks on the ground and those you are sharing the airspace with know who you are, where you are etc to avoid accident - anything that isn't broadcasting a 'I'm XYZ, I'm your freind' signal is likely hostile and should be investigated or just destroyed...
Actually it is not FAA's job to know "what is in the sky".
@@ravenbarsrepairs5594It's not safe to make such assumptions in wartime, either.
Rules are made for honest people.
oldguyFPV; Rules are made to "control" honest people!
Then stop being honest. Simple solution.
Rules are made to keep people honest.
@@deadwingdomain Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters: Albert Einstein
Rules are also made to break only good people.
Remote ID was an effort to close down the consumer side of drones; it's not meant to do anything otherwise; just allow big businesses to have unfettered access to the skies. Anything else is incidental. With any failure, it's just going to result in the powers that be suggesting that they need to go further with more restrictions on consumer drones.
sounds exactly like gun control
watch these douchebags start trying to play atf and classify drones as weapons.
@@TheBoatPirate Made me consider a potential drone false flag casualty event occurring in the future in order to push draconian regs through. I hope Im wrong. Did you know Adam Lana's Mother worked for DARPA? That almost all the parents who supposedly lost children at Sandy Hook had their mortgages fully paid off over 18 months prior to the school shooting event on Christmas day morning? Never would have dreamt that but the county real estate documentation is in black and white. Rabbit hole turns into a cavern once anyone start looking at many of these events
Screw you for wanting a hobby/learn a skill/just have fun, amazon needs to deliver cat food to the stay at home dog mom. Please install a 150$ tracker to do 1/2 of what a software could do on a free/paid app the FAA made to track your radio output to receive telemetry data, but that wouldn't make the faa money while taking Amazon's green sea
I’m so glad you’ve got the balls to tell it like it is. On some other sites, it’s blasphemy to even utter under your breath, a dislike for RID.
Another one is “needing” a spotter while flying FPV while you’re flying through hoops in the middle of a soccer field early in the morning. C’mon !
Reminds me of back in the day when CB radios in cars and trucks became a hot thing. FCC rules said you needed a license...but there were simply so many CBs out there that enforcement of the rule was virtually non-existent. Tons of people were using the things and virtually nobody got arrested.
I was lied to?!!
Nah... there must be some mistake...
Pffst..
Thanks Bruce. We love you.
Drones are "weapons of mass destruction". Where have we heard that lie before...
Thank you for bringing us up-to-date on the lack of success with remote ID. I've missed your regular flying videos
The biggest problem with RID is that it shows the location of pilots, think about it, you are flying with your goggles on and someone comes up from behind and hits you on the head and takes off with all of your stuff.
I agree.
When wearing goggles, you're required to have a spotter.
@@gsrsin So you and the spotter both get knocked in the back of the head.
Don't worry, it has remote ID, u can just go get it back lol
This literally sounded like a cartoon skit lol
Good to see you again brother, long time no see : )
I agree with you 100% brother which a big waste of time. They should just let people flying have some good clean fun. I refuse to use rid
Christmas time 2024. Now we see this video Was clairvoyant
Bravo Bravo , well said. Keep up the good work!!
Congrats. This popped up on my main google app feed. Your big time now
I'm just lucky my 5in freestyle quadcopter is sub250g >.>
Never stop the RC!
oldguyFPV; I was flying in a remote spot today, and had no ID where I was! Can you imagine that?
I have two sub250 quads that fly like a 7"! Flyin free baby!!
I sure miss seeing you guys flying model airplanes at the airport.
Me too.
OMG, I must give up even more of my personal freedom in order to keep the kids safe! ... oh wait, maybe no. I was listening and you are right and have always been. Keep up the good work Bruce.
Bruce, I didn’t realize your home was also heavily regulated. Thank you for advocating for us USA fliers.
Can't (legally) fly a whoop around the house :/
Bruce,I knew this would happen.I never complyed in the first place.I dont have any modules or FAA registration numbers.All I did was take the FREE Trust test and got my certificate.I havent even flown much this year at all.
I don't know if aliens visit us, Bruce... But, if they do, I'm sure as heck they won't use remote ID!
Anyway, stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
@@NahBahDee truckin what😂😂
@@NahBahDee 99% will laugh, but if they only knew what has been going on not so much. Where the millions of children disappear to year after year
Hey Bruce! great to see you again!
"They make things up" Yes; THEY do.
If they were at 40,000 feet they likely weren't commercial drones
Folks claim that I don't respect authority, when in reality, I don't respect idiots in positions of power!
BREAK THE RULES! I do it every time I fly (but only the stupid rules.)
I had a male “Karen” who thought they knew about drone regs try to call me out on my 4 inch FPV quad weight. I said yeah its under 250g. Mr Karen said no way it is. I said wheres your calibrated scale? Same answer to any cops with that question. Ill be long gone if they show up with digital scale
Man, you did so much for the hobby. Keep up the good job and I hope you can do videos explaining the FPV and other stuff for us for me. You are the God of the FPV technology, and how things work , for that thank you so much
X-jet was right ? RID is a scam ?? The federal government squeezing money out of its citizens ?? Now who would've ever guessed this twist in the plot !! 😂🎉 ❤ love you dad
Bruce as ALWAYS dropping the truth bombs
Yep knew it was a load of BS from the get go.
Go out and fly Bruce!
No you didnt
Good to see you back… I live close to Luke Air Force base…I fly my FPV drone (legally) under/bear the restricted airspace.
As I’ve always said, it won’t be the criminals that register their drones, it will only be the law abiding citizens. There is literally nothing keeping anyone from being a bad actor, which will ruin the hobby for everyone.
wow i would have never seen that coming......
Hey Bruce, have you seen the U.K. news?
Not only do we have to register our drones (for some time now)
We now have to register chickens , not just farmers , that includes if you have pet chickens, yup ever single chicken individually.
The U.K. has gone mad, I’m registering some rocks tonight as chickens, if they want to check I will just claim I’m insane,
🤔🤣🤣🤣🤯🤯🤯🤪
People don't realise, but this is the slow escalation into Big Brother state. This includes monitoring our vehicles through 'climate change clean air zones'. These people that rule us currently can't make do with just taxing us to death, they want to see when we eat, poo and raise chickens. Sadly.
Just tell them your rocks "Identify" as chickens. 🙂
Don't forget TV loicenses!
Just register all government officials responsible for this as chickens
In Britain from Tuesday 1st October it will be a criminal offence to keep a chicken without registering it with the authorities.
So....
Everyone Register that you have a chicken. Overload the system.
If everyone has a chicken registered how will they check?
I've just registered mine
I'll tell them it died next week, if you have one in the freezer register that, especially if you have a pet budgie or parrot that identifies as a chicken... even the cat or dog can qualify, if you have a mental illness, you could have an imaginary chicken friend pet….🤔😳
Before commercial drones were available, there were hobbyists building quadcopters, hexacopters and octocopters from scratch and sharing design information online. There is nothing stopping a technically skilled person from digging up the designs from the Web and building one's own drones that don't embody Remote ID and potentially greatly exceed the range and altitude capabilities of those early efforts.
I wish the FAA was just XJET
Name a DJI drone that can fly 40K feet above the ground.
another well presented and informative video
Awesome video as always 👊😎thanks for sharing 😊🙏
when it was first proposed on ADSB frequencies it made sense. There's the possibility for manned aircraft to find the drones and actually improve safety. Sadly it has nothing to do with safety, it's just about controlling the public.
Hope you get a better summer than we did here in Northern Ireland 😁
Wow who'd a thunk it, criminals will break laws. Politicians: "if we make laws against it we can stop it." Normal people "Don't we call them criminals because they break the laws?"
I would support tech that gives out a transponder like signal that shows up on aircrafts instruments letting pilots know a hobby aircraft is being operated and caution should be observed. Much like the system Bruce had been working on.
Funny, isn't it. Most commonly available camera drones have a service ceiling of about 4000m - so even if you can hack the firmware, you can't get up to the kind of heights of these claimed sightings.
I hope you find some aerial footage soon. I’m curious about the jet fighters spotting drones, so you’ve for sure given me homework. I don’t mind tho. Have fun, and good times!
What, people who intentionally violate FAA rules do not voluntarily put a registered tracker on their drone? Tell me it ain’t so… 🤦♂️
That goldstar TV is amazing, I had one when I was a teenager .
thank you for this!
In South Africa too, all drones under 7kgs fall under the same band. There’s no sub 250g classification
We had several fly over my property in Southwest Virginia recently.
This past weekend .. "An unprecedented number of airplanes, helicopters, and drones swooping in to help with Hurricane Helene recovery efforts are now posing a safety hazard.
There were 30 near-mid-air collisions last Saturday," according to a federal source.
The major issue here is that the general aviation principle of "seen and be seen" is broken when it comes to FAA rules/procedures for crewed and uncrewed aircraft. Both crewed and uncrewed aircraft are essential in post-event disaster scenarios like with hurricane Helene. Drones to inspect infrastructure and identify people in need of rescue and supplies. Crewed helicopters and airplanes to airlift people and supplies. Add in the varied terrain in a mountainous region where drones are flying below 400 feet AGL (ground reference), while crewed vehicles are operation based on pressure altitude ASL (sea level reference), and potential for overlapping operations greatly increases.
The FAA and FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Admin) really need to re-examine such scenarios as we see more climate induce disasters and catastrophic weather events (flooding, hurricanes, wildfires, etc). So far the policy with respect to wildfires is to ground crewed aircraft if any drone is spotted flying. This greatly hampers efforts by firefighters, as unexpected delays are introduced randomly. Much time wasted in attempts to track down a drone operator.
Ideally both crewed and unscrewed aircraft would broadcast on common frequencies so they could be seen and alerted to each others presence. ie: a common shared frequency for sharing position and altitude data.
The new rules in NZ are a joke.
We have/had Jet Aircraft pilots(Air NZ) at my RC Club. They now arnt qualifiied to be a spotter for RC flyers .
Seems real pilots arnt qualified enough to look out for low flying planes .
We'll see how many in NZ DONT choose to resit their Wings badges , now that many have to be renew
them next year (now a required 5 year renewal) . I bet many will say stuff it rather than re-sit wings & just fly at a park rather than a RC Club with the RC Club's restrictive rules & regs
MFNZ, the "recognised organisation" for RC model flying, has a very tricky problem on its hands -- trying to appease the bureaucrats whilst protecting the freedoms of its members. Personally, I believe they should have stood up for our rights more than they have done (but others will doubtless disagree and I respect their opinions). What MFNZ, CAA and MoT have to understand is that you can tie someone up with the rubber bands of over-regulation and keep increasing the tension but eventually, when you over-do it, those bands will snap and become useless. I believe we're reaching that point now.
Our current ruleset for RC/drones (part 101) came into effect in 2015 and there have been no substantive changes since.
We used to be smart enough to realise that something under 100g was just a toy and ought not be covered by regulations that also cover 14.9Kg octocopters -- but that is no longer the case. Whereas other countries (such as Canada and the UK) have recognised that sub250g craft are pretty harmless, and are therefore pretty unrestricted, we have no such intelligence behind our rules and I break the rules every time I fly my 25g Mobula 6 around the house using FPV.
MFNZ has said "no problem, just apply for a BVLOS waiver" -- but the brainboxes at MFNZ and CAA still believe that to fly a 25g tinywhoop around my house I'd need signs, traffic management and an armful of forms before such an activity could be performed safely. I've got news for them... I do this several times a week (without the bureaucratic overhead) and hardly anyone has died as a result.
The property-permission provision of 101 is also being widely ignored because it effectively means that every part of NZ, aside from a few council parks and your own property, is a no-fly zone unless you can get the permission of those who own or occupy that property. Tourists coming to NZ with their drone will have almost zero opportunity to fly it legally under this part of the rule -- so they just do it illegally, often out of ignorance.
Where are the bodies?
After consulting, back in 2021 we were promised changes. We're now approaching 2015 and we've got nothing.
CAA often refers to itself as a "fast follower" in terms of regulation.
Not this time eh?
Thanjs for the update
I agree the goal is to clear the skies. These violating drones in the USA reported by using RID will mean the gov't will double down on RID. Just wait for RID 2.0 where the RID module MUST comply will being able to receive and MUST be connected to the flight controller. In Canada, sub250 is still safe for recreational and commercial use. No license or registration required, but I can't see Transport Canada leaving sub250 alone as they eventually cave in to commercial interests and the need to create rules to justify there positions and copy the rules of the FAA.
it’s just a start to justify network remote ID. that is coming next
Epic t-shirt, Sir. Oh, and the video!
Actually, First Responders are using RID receivers to detect drones flying in the TFR's that are in the hurricane Helene area. They are able to find people flying in the TFR and contact the pilot to get the drone on the ground so first responder helicopters can look for survivors and deliver supplies.
No different then banning something, the bad guys will still have it.
Well if they only target the law abiding, then it's time to stop being law abiding. Adapt and overcome.
New Zealand, after Covid, showed me that NZ is owned and operated by bad actors. And there Jacinda Ardern was with BlackRock. Great video as always, love a good rant!
That does seem so very shady indeed, about your ex PM.
Hah! That's my neck of the woods. There's definitely a bit of open air space relatively close to the base. I remember flying in 2019 within 5 miles of Luke and didn't even realize it was that close. ( obviously I knew it was close just never considered how close) I was flying just on the side of the road as police car are driving by and still nobody said a single thing to me.
Other possible reasons Bruce. I would not at all exclude the possibility that many if not all of these sighting are either pilots misinterpreting what they have "seen" (recall what has been said before about how difficult it will be to see a small (or even medium sized) UAV from an aircraft travelling at 400-500 mph (or even faster if military jets)), or it is a narrative put out there to help the agenda of the military. You can just imagine the conversation about needing a reason to increase military spending or put in place even more rules to keep pesky UAV fliers out of the skies so they are free for military use (note that the vast majority of airspace is for military use). I agree though that RID is a piece of nonsense and does nothing for safety. I have submitted these views to our CAA when they have "consulted" (i.e. done what they have to by statute, but with no real intention to listen to the responses) on RID and other changes to UAV rules. Risk-based legislation? They wouldn't know it if it jumped up and bit them (and clearly they won't have done their risk assessment on that happening!). P.S. I just watched that P.O.S. news report. Sensationalist rubbish. What has happened to proper investigative journalism, checking facts, questioning the narrative? All gone to crap it seems (plus the ominous music whenever a drone in flight was being shown!). Holy crap and I thought our news reporting was rubbish.
Like the BA pilot who spotted a 'drone' in the approach to LHR, who later admitted it may have been a plastic bag?
@@cambridgemart2075 Exactly. Fast forward a few months to the New Jersey alien invasion / Iranian war drones fiasco and you see exactly what some ill informed / paranoid thinking combined with mass hysteria can do. To quote private Frazer "We're all doomed..."!
Great video xjet
If government's can bend the rules when it suits them. Then I think the public can do the same. Corrupt politicians make their own rules to suit the narrative.
Go fly your RC Toys and have fun. I will not call them drones anymore. RC Helicopters, RC planes, Multirotors or Quads. Drone is a word I do not associate with the Hobby.
Bruce the man!
I’m pretty sure there is more of those than don’t than those that do.
Yeah I would love to see a video on nz laws
Good to see you, Bruce! I dont pay any attention to the FAA restrictions in my overly regulated area. Other than the golden rule- don't be an as$hole. No cuffs or fines, so far.
Screw em, Bruce. Fly anyway. Film it all. If the CAA tries to use your footage agaisnt you, tell em it's an A I generated video. It wasnt you flying. It was Arnie! 👍
You rock! :)
A nearby military base here in Australia operates a commercial drone detector system with a 5km range. It detects the interface signals between the drone and controller. As to doing something about it like jamming or spoofing the signal, they are currently not empowered. I suppose they could coordinate with the Police to figure out who was at the controller's location via mobile phone pinging, or even attendance if they are fast enough. Unlikely to occur unless it is a regular or persistent thing.
With my Fimi drones, I can fly with “Airplane Mode” enabled on both my phone and tablet. This also prevents drone pausing for new firmware updates that I know I don’t need. I fly safely but will NEVER comply with BS regulation like remote ID.
Love you , Bruce; No one here cares, anyway so I do my best not to crash into them. Remote ID is an ILLEGAL joke IMO.
When the Govt gets involved it always fails
the thing with AeroScope, is it only works with DJI stuff...
Instead of requiring RID for everyone it only should only have been required when flying in specific sensitive locations, the law should be that anything found in sensitive areas without RID will be subject to being shot down.
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Government: You must use remote ID
Chinese spies: Hold my Golden Retriever Curry
corruption and bureaucracy
They wanted the original plan for network remote ID though LOL. Broadcast rid was their fallback plan if I recall correctly. The network rid would have been real bad and I'm sure it's still their eventual goal.
There are RID receivers out there which detect drones for 5+ miles. Also, Aeroscope will not detect non DJI drones.
I hope I don;t get that cranky when I get old, I'm 74 now and enjoy flying and don't get all twisted about rules I can either comply with or choose to ignore where appropriate.
This is a very important story to get out. This proves a few things: 1. Remote ID will never work. 2. The feds will only use remote ID to go after hobbyists who break a rule for benign purposes. 3. Going after hobbyists is a form a scapegoating to make it look like the government is in control when they are certainly not. 4. If foreign actors want to spy on us, there are plenty of ways they can obtain a drone that is unrestricted in software any fly it illegally where ever they want in the US. 5. The Chinese balloon was nothing. The Chinese and many other countries are probably flying drones where ever they want in the U.S. as we speak! 6. Banning hobbyists from buying drones which have all software restrictions anyway (DJI) will only prevent U.S. citizens from learning how to fly and use drones. I can tell you that a technology like drones cannot be stopped. The only solution is to develop and build specialized drones that are designed to go after violating drones and either capture or destroy them.
Nicly spoken Bruce, als always, you are completely right. This is all done to let us pay and tell us to comply. I will never. Not just for this very nice hobby but also the other things like the 💉or go full electric, no CO2 bull and more nonsense. Keep up the good work.
Waiting here for Tim McKay’s response video…👌🏾👌🏾😭😭
Hahahaha! Damn... now I'll have to clean the coffee off my screen (again). Thanks for brightening up my day!! 😀
Hopefully remote identification can help prevent small/recreational aircraft from entering restricted airspace
They aren't required to carry it.
As someone that wouldn’t comply with RID you also won’t catch me dead flying near military bases. That’s asking for it 😂
It gives the government POWER. THAT IS ALL THEY CARE ABOUT.
IDK if I can agree that RID can't be seen from far away. If some of these ocean ships turn their radar up they can see your head floating on a wavy ocean to come save you from the cold-water. Some of these cities have shown off their command-centers where they have access to cameras all over the city. I really need to find the video but in the CC they had access to police-body-cameras, the planes flying over the city to track speeders... just all sorts of fancy stuff to put up on the 50-100 screens.
Where can I get my hands on the ADSB alarm please?
Back to the Airfield Bruce.....❤🙏🙏
If I do, I'll be in breach of the council's diktat which also places me in breach of CAA's regulations so I face being tresspassed, arrested and fined. The council has even banned me from filming on their property so I can't even show others flying at the airfield without risk of tresspass and arrest. I have a great video of our beloved mayor using the F-word during a session of council that was livestreamed to the world. Great people!
@@xjet what would legal representation say about this,have you ever asked about it?
@@M-H433 Can't afford it.
So I get this right a jet fighter pilot flying around at least 200 mph saw a drone a mile away. Now even the biggest drone's we have are the size of a microwave or a large goose, how can a pilot spot something that small from a mile away and doing 200+ mph. Realistically some of these drone reports are simply impossible to happen, maybe they should have a look at the people who report them.
china has bought countless acres by our military bases and the current administration is doing nothing about it. and the chinese government operating those supposedly impossible to explain drones is the only reasonable explanation.
Droneup was doing drone deliveries around town up until recently. I never once saw one on drone scanner and there is no way they were up that high.... but regardless RID is useless.
RID equals IFF(Identity Friend or Foe transponders) .... All aircraft have some form of IFF, whether it turned on or not is a choice of the pilot.
Don't you get it? Big Brother will always want to be bigger.
Drone sightings but no visual ID to confirm. I wonder which government agency these drones really belonged to? Here in UK we do not yet have the stupidity of Remote ID. Instead, we fine motorhome owners £3000 for reporting illegal entry by would be illgal mmigrants. We shut down the last coal fired power station as the cost of electricity rises with every windmiill and solar panel that comes into use becoming one of the world's highest priced (75% more than in the USA), The government takes money designated to keep pensioners warm and gives it to train drivers. Certain old people calling police nasty names can find themselves doing a two year stretch for the "offence" within a couple of weeks while other certain young people can break a police officers nose and still be left walking the streets.
Sorry Bruce but it appears the real madhouse has yet to reach you.
Don’t understand why general rc hobbyists, would fall for that remote id registering, by the faa.
Bruce, a mate of mine doing security at Pearce Airforce base over here in Western Australia say they shoot down, on average, 1 drone a week that is operating within the perimeter of the active airport. no rfid required... Ya think that will change if an rfid requirement is invoked? yeah, naah.
All remote id and the other over-baked regulations did for me was drive me out of the sport! I used to fly my little Latrax Alias every night in my own driveway, never venturing more than 10m up, but then the absurd regulations started showing up so legally I couldn't even fly within 5 miles of any school yard (which could theoretically be emergency med-evac landing sites) which meant as a disabled person I was realistically out of luck at being able to fly anywhere. Gave away my big GPS Free-X drone (that I had just added FPV to, but never even got to fly it that way) after that, cause I sure couldn't use it...
(I know, all the people who live in the wide open spaces of the American mid-west and south west will say "Oh, just ignore the regulations and fly anyway"! Doesn't work when one out of ever 5 of my neighbors work for the Federal government in a highly populated area. $10,000 fines just for flying in my drive way aren't worth it)!
I live within 3 miles of a class C airport. Fly my helicopters in my front yard, street in my subdivision DAILY for 10 years. Never had anyone, let alone authorities, create an issue.
I say fly as you always have. Its so unlikely you'll have an issue.
Seems like the 'sense and avoid' system would have been a better option.
Yea, never understood why anyone would expect criminals to fit a remoteID in their drones. I assume the people deciding on this expect everyone to just buy ready made drones that will have remoteID built in.
We have a 'foreign' secretary who thinks Marie Antoinette discovered radium, and Henry 7th succeeded Henry 8th and just gave away a british protectorate against its inhabitants wishes, so yea things are pretty grim!
Lammy is Foreign Secretary not home, which is even scarier.
@@PhilBarrett789
Oops my ignorance is showing!
Who'd have thought that 'bad actors' would flout the rules on remote ID........................................
It must be a huge ass drone to be sighted at a mile away while flying at 600 knots