Yes, GPS of the control station could glean that info from the cell phone or tablet attached to it.
Bruce's opinion is so full of nonsense it's not worth anyone's time to watch it. I tried talking to him, but he doesn't want to listen. He doesn't understand as much about this as he thinks he does. It amazes me people listen to him anymore. He's quickly becoming irrelevant to all but his fervent followers.
That is a possible solution. We’ll all see when the standards come out.
I'm glad I'm not the only person who feels this way. I "used" to watch some of his reviews of models etc and enjoyed them but he really doesn't speak for the Industry and his views are heavily skewed in the wrong direction. Now it's just a platform for him to thump his chest and try to push his channel.
Drones manufactured starting 18 months from the implementation date need to be compliant, and people have another 12 months after that to be compliant. So, any drone not compliant by the time you are required to be will be at least a year old.
I believe you missed the point. There will be hundreds, if not thousands, of US of A drones that need the modification to be compliant. I am positing the market will be absolutely flooded with either requests for a modifying kit and/or non-compliant drones for sale.
Only the end of unmonitored flights by compliant people...
Just can’t see that happening. Manufacturers have to make a profit but the only way to do that is to sell their products. Some price increase is likely, but if they try to charge too much they’ll just price themselves out of the market.
There will be a lot of folks selling, which is a shame. There is no need to. Once more info comes out and people get more educated, I see this not being an issue.
Not at all. Market pricing will come into play. The cost of retrofit theses units will be in the $25-35 range. Enough people will producing and selling them, that they cost will be kept down. They only way it wouldn't is if they conspired to keep the cost high. And that's already illegal.
Also not true. DJI in particular has already said the cost increase will be marginal, if at all. And some of their drones can likely be undated with a simple firmware push. They're working on this technical aspects at this very time. DJI drones are already pretty much compliant, so the cost will hardly increase at all.
Nope. Just the beginning of safer and more responsible flight.
Vic, I hope and pray, that is the case. The data I read online talks of significant up cost. Here's hoping it's BS!
I am intimately involved in this (much deeper than I thought I ever would be).
I read the article on FAA.GOV. Congratulations. A knowledgable and worthy person was chosen. My congrats to you on that!
You won't necessarily need something with GPS as the drone already has that position and height data available. Consequently, a module would be much cheaper to produce.
The cost discussion is about the module, not any AC modifications that would have it considered built-in, such as a firmware update.
My thought was that if the drone was already transmitting this information back to the RC, the module would just need to receive it from the drone and retransmit it on the appropriate frequency.
