@Yorkshire_Pud well firstly i apreciate your comments and i will give some of my thoughts about what is being proposed ,these are purely my interpretation of whats being muted,aspecially as far as the open category revisions are concerned
simplifying the rules and changing the open category names for different weight class of drone
is a positive thing,as hopefully it will be easier to understand
aligning some of the C class marks, to better match those ,of what is already in place in many of the EU countries will be a good idea
RID is something, that needs a lot of careful planning, and understanding of the implications,that having access to a RPs position when they are flying, and being able to locate that pilot and confront them ,is not something i would be happy with ,and i expressed my reasons why in my reply in the relevent part of the consultation
i have no issue with what RID should be used for, to aprehend those persons using a drone for nefarios puposes, or flying in restricted airspace, and i dont mind there being an App that can show a drone being flown, that is broadcasting a unique serial number,that is applicable to the drone that i am flying only
because in the event of someone using that App, to report my drone being flown ,then they would give the number to the authorities who would then know from that number and have the facilty to pinpoint my location, if they so wanted to
regarding an extention to the transitional period, proposed to last to 2028 for legacy drones,then it will allow those drones to keep on flying as they are now ,there is one point which i raised with regards to the holders of the A 2 C of C currently being phased out at the end of 2025,about extending that date as well
with regards to users of the UAS airspace, i also said i did not want the recreational flyers in that airspace to be marginalised ,by the interests of commercial operators , to the point that there will be very little places to fly any class of drone anymore
these are my personal views and sorry the post turned out to be so long