Hi everyone. Live in the U.K. but love to fly my drone when in Florida, which we visit every year, I wanted to share my experience of trying to get my drone Re-Registered with the FAA to reflect that it has Remote ID (courtesy of firmware update 01.01.1600-which my MA2 has) which is effective 16 March 2024. This has proved impossible despite help from DJI Chat team in the US and the clear position of the FAA. I am wondering if anyone with a MA2 living outside the US has managed to get their craft Registered as having RID. After a mass of Chat with the wonderful team at DJI they confirmed I am ready to go (even though I am in the U.K.) and advised that I simply apply to the FAA, as a Recreational flyer (Trust but NOT 107), using my existing Serial Number but with 1581F as a prefix and a 0 as a suffix. I have attempted this through the FAA Drone Zone but as I enter said “new” Serial Number, at the first digit “1”, I get an instant “Serial Number not recognised” and I can proceed no further. I have taken this up with our friends at the FAA through The Drone Zone and I have been advised that, and I quote……
“I will remind you that DJI is a foreign-based manufacturer with NO regulatory authority over the US National Airspace System. For a drone to be compliant with 14 CFR Part 89 (the remote ID rule) it must have an FAA-accepted declaration of compliance. DJI not only knows this, they know their drones are non-compliant until they rectify their problem.”
Having discussed this with DJI Chat in the US I am advised that I should apply once I am in the US, firstly having checked RID is properly installed on my drone and when GPS says I’m in the US
Can do this of course but it’s a bit of a risk and I would be so disappointed if I was not able to fly.
As said above, anyone else had this experience or even better, how to solve it? Many thanks in advance.
“I will remind you that DJI is a foreign-based manufacturer with NO regulatory authority over the US National Airspace System. For a drone to be compliant with 14 CFR Part 89 (the remote ID rule) it must have an FAA-accepted declaration of compliance. DJI not only knows this, they know their drones are non-compliant until they rectify their problem.”
Having discussed this with DJI Chat in the US I am advised that I should apply once I am in the US, firstly having checked RID is properly installed on my drone and when GPS says I’m in the US
Can do this of course but it’s a bit of a risk and I would be so disappointed if I was not able to fly.
As said above, anyone else had this experience or even better, how to solve it? Many thanks in advance.