2024 is the year the hobby pushes back

[@dingalarm]

Apart from delivery drones and air taxis being currently unviable due to battery technology, what really bothers me is how they pose a real danger to the public due to their heavy weight, and flight paths over populated areas. It's so annoying how the regulators have deliberately turned a blind eye to this issue, and instead chosen to over-regulate the hobby.

[@alexthompson7096]

Errr. They turned a blind eye huh? I do believe only ONE flying car has been FAA approved. That is due to the regulations needed to be met before getting approval. CARS are what has hundreds and hundreds of regulations. Are all the cars banned? xjet is a tool. He lies and posts his fact free opinions as facts. Here is a fact for you. In the history of RC aircraft. How many rc pilots has the FAA fined? In total. ALLLLL of them? Ya ready? 384 fines. Millions on drones sold/built in the USA annually. Hundreds of millions of flights. 384 total fines, and some pilots got multiple fines, so thats not even 384 different pilots. FACTS MATTER! The Drone U has a great video on this with a link to the report if you want to check that out. Don't let the people like Bruce try to scare you away from the hobby. You can ignore remote id and fly on brother. The FAA will only give a hoot if you hurt someone. Again, the FACTS speak for themselves. Go check that video out!

[@wrstew1272]

Momma used to tell me “ Money talks, BullShit walks.” Funny how the older I get, the smarter she was 😢😮😂

[@kwikflikzyakadventures3795]

I live 3 klms from Beenleigh Wing Delivery Drone, in 2022 they were flying over every 10 minutes, because for the first 6mths delivery was free, haven’t seen one drone in 2023 or 2024, I see the point for elderly getting medication scripts, they were bloody noisy and annoying.

[@TheHillsHaveFPV]

"that toy is dangerous! we need to protect the airspace for these safer 200 lb commercial drones that have been known to take out power lines instead!

[@michaelwhinnery164]

You are absolutely right Bruce, I subscribed to several rc channels operated by awkward teenagers that have grown up and now work in the tech sector but still make rc videos on KZbin. This type of person will go the way of the dinosaur if this regulatory nonsense isn't stopped. How many astronauts and pilots were avid rc enthusiasts as children... almost every one.

[@jaapjoo2372]

Glad to see the fighting spirit back.💥 Bring it on, I can send some emails. 💌

[@FraggsUK]

Looking forward to the ride Bruce, with you all the way, we need to stop the over regulation before its too late

[@FraggsUK]

@@TomBrant-ye9et Yeah its sad mate, just hope they see a bit of sense here in the UK 🇬🇧 but not holding my breath, fast becoming an outlaw myself too

[@james_860]

Hello Bruce, I definitely will be tuning in for the new year. I hope a lot more hobby enthusiast join us all on this trip for change in 2024.

[@michaelsimpson9779]

Well done Bruce

[@crystalclearwindowcleaning3458]

Thanks Bruce. I'll do my part in 2024.

[@JaydenLawson]

I’ve ignored the regulations for years and that’s not going to stop

[@choppergirl]

I'm ratting you out.

[@jakeclauson9863]

Looking good Bruce. Enjoy the summer while it last! Mid winter here up north. wishing for warmer weather..

[@alanreid250]

The fpv flight around your property just goes to show how ridiculous over regulation is...with you on this.

[@UKDroneClub]

It's crazy, and worryingly it's going to get worse before it gets better 😔

[@Mgp-Rc]

It's like the rule in a lot of countries that if you run into the back of a vehicle you are instantly at fault. SHAME how dash cams prove this narrative INCORRECT! HA HA!

[@bwc1976]

Great editing and great message as always!

[@DmercuryMoyes]

Finding a hobby this late in life that I really like makes me happy is being regulated out of existence. Typical:(

[@DigitalCruzer]

It's the same hobby, do what u want

[@wrstew1272]

Isn’t it ironic that when West Chazy finally get both the money and the time, the hobby is disappearing?

[@jasonjahnkeinla]

Yes Yes Yes Over Regulation Has Happened WORLD 🌎 WIDE! LOVE FROM Canada 🇨🇦 2024 Is the time for us to All Get Together. I'm with you and will Help with any call to action You Ask For. I'll let All my friends know also. Cheers

[@stevendegiorgio3143]

Bruce,it's good to see you in the New Year,happy New year,and as always,your right.Im still not complying with remote ID.Its been way too cold and windy here in the USA to do any flying.The only thing I did was retrieve someone's model rocket out of a tree and I referbed it.

[@johncarold]

Hi Bruce, Great video and information about this Hobby and what we need to do to save it. I started flying at 9 years old. I'm proud of my oldest patron I have. Keep up the great work and happy flying.

[@TeekoFPV]

youre making history man, a true leader

[@David-yo5ws]

Good to see you looking so good Bruce. And I love the way you push the 'Over Regulation' around. Yeah, it will take a lot of pushing, but steady pressure applied, eventually, shows the cracks in the system. Like the story in the movie "The Shawshank Redemption" where Andy writes every day for 8 years, to get more books for the library. Maybe I need to email the new National Ministry of Transport the Honourable Simeon and the Associate Minister the Honourable Matt every day? Looking forward to your plans Bruce.

[@bobwhitewo3b]

Instead of engineers they will become lawyers. Just what the world needs is more lawyers.

[@prussiaaero1802]

99% of lawyers give the rest of their profession a bad name!

[@williamdrabble8781]

Thanks for leading the fight Bruce

[@BOTGRINDER]

✊

[@marksrcmodels41]

Bruce I have always written letters and I am willing to continue to write letters. The fact that there are millions of us that enjoy model planes, drones. I am truly saddened by the fact that only 50000 people wrote letters to the FAA. In the United States, the AMA is part of the problem. They weren't worried about the modelers. They wanted regulations from bureaucracy. They would benefit. From the regulation. It meant additional membership in a m a and therefore growth of their society at the cost of our freedoms. 2024 You're absolutely correct if we don't stand up now this hobby is gone.

[@BerndFelsche]

Happy New Year.

[@Geckatron]

2023 was not the best for flying where I live, it was too hot to enjoy it, (for a few weeks) then rained or was too windy etc most of the time. I hope 2024 is better.

[@alanhilder1883]

The innovations come from the hobbyists, so the "10 years from now" will be "10 years after we train people to look into the problems, what we have to pay them and pay for that training? forget that" ( forget was a substitution for a different word ).

[@richardkelly5522]

In uk on bbc tv news a dog went missing for 12 days a man with a drone offered to help in search, after a few minutes he found the dog trapped in a hedgerow , good news dog and owner reunited. Drone pilot stays anonymous wonder why .probably would have been prosecuted for something. Good news story ?. Are serch and rescue drones legal.

[@fluoxethine]

FAA so busy regulating drones that they forgot to regulate Boeing which results we have now with the Alaska Flight 1282 😂

[@AgentSMITH-kp2nw]

Wing, the drone mob that used to deliver in the north of Canberra is gone. Not viable apparently. 🤔 Every delivery we recieved, if underweight for effective deployment, would include a free drink or such to up the drop weight. Not a fantastic buisness model.

[@theoztreecrasher2647]

YAAIIRR!??? I can't imagine what went wrong there? A dumb loss-making idea coming out of the education and ideological pinnacle that is our shining National Capital. I can't believe it! 😱

[@Coops777]

I agree 100% Bruce. While I can see that the government Aviation agencies are trying hard to predict and cover all bases for the future (we cant blame for doing their job) it is obvious that the RC hobby has not been represented fairly in their studies and estimations. As you have presented in previous years, over zealous financiers, mega companies and also negative media coverage have managed to convince and influence congress and consequently, the FAA, that immediate changes must be made to the airspace to allow for a mass influx of electric vtol aircraft. Year after year we look for them, but few if any appear in our airspace.

[@pdtech4524]

I'm determined to put out much more 'push back' content this year and do my bit.👍

[@trumblez]

Everybody needs to see this

[@OldCurmudgeon3DP]

Trying to successfully inject logic into bureaucracy is a tall order.

[@Karbonkage]

Mate you are always spot on…. ❤ ya Bruce. Welcome to the FPV outlaw club 😢

[@miquelmarti6537]

you are so right Bruce. Hopefully we can all together make a difference. If I'm being informed right in most european countries they settled to no restrictions for sub 250g, and the sub 500g is only banned from urban areas (150m away from any building, park or road). But getting lipos in the mail is becoming very difficult, specially if you live in an island. Despite of our local regulations, the hobby drone industry won't be saved if most countries do actually (more or less) ban them. Hopefully we can all together stand up and make a difference.

[@TentoesMe]

Regulators cannot understand why we were not going to drag shows and so on like children are supposed to. Or why as adults we are not doing drugs and so on like we are supposed to.

[@jb4688]

Aloha Bruce, Happy New Year to you and the fam!

[@MCsCreations]

Bruce, the issue about batteries is worse than that. You can make them work better and for longer time, but that's it. Unless we have some kind of revolution in particle physics... I don't see how we could make the batteries those things would need. Well... Unless the US military really has alien technology and open it to scientists. And I doubt both hypothesis. Anyway, stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊

[@DavidDickerson-i8s]

The controllers of such technology use legal words like tradecraft or intellectual property to assign profit to themselves. We see it when they figure out how to sell it to us. 🤨

[@bren42069]

yea i personally think they already do have some insane tech. i mean let's even leave aliens out of it - occam's razor. it only looks alien to us. they developed it themselves in secret, learning from people like nick tesla. the universe is a perpetual motion machine, once we learn to move like the universe, we won't need batteries or fuel. but you can't sell that. that would set us free. and certain people can't survive without a mass of slaves to feed on.

[@eyespy1415]

Regulations are only for those that comply

[@scrapveiw]

No signing ,no tracking , no fines .............easy

[@webreakforsquirrel4201]

I lost all my drones in an angry tree accident.

[@eyespy1415]

Same fishing trip when ya lost all ya guns??@@webreakforsquirrel4201

[@skyforce1983]

Thanks for sharing that picture of you as a kid you looked more handsome then but lack the huge biceps you got now 💪

[@TTcodfather]

Spent a lot of my morning (a really crappy day here on the west coast of BC) flying my Savage Cub in and out of Tokoroa Field on my MSFlight Sim program. Tokoroa is the perfect little runway for the Cub, and in Flight Sim it can always be a sunny day under perfect conditions. I've watched enough of your videos to know my way around the field and so I get better each time I do touch and go's. What's not to like eh? Keep the faith Bro!

[@JordanHill-vs7kc]

This is exactly why rc is less relevant. More kids have easier access to a flight simulator than RC flying. You don't have to be involved in RC to be a pilot anymore. You just don't, times have evolved to sim racers becoming real race car drivers.

[@stevendegiorgio3143]

Bruce,I'm a private pilot and certified aircraft mechanic and Lockheed Martin won't hire me for nothing.

[@Wind_Rapport]

holy hell protect this man

[@LobstersLobsters]

The only thing FPV/RC endangers is the pilot's wallet

[@choppergirl]

Unless you are a girl with long hair, in which case, your hair is at risk as well..

[@bren42069]

>ten years highly optimistic don't comply with stupid ""laws""

[@RPaulWolstenholme12]

Just tried to comment on the article, they're no longer taking comments, so settled for putting in complaint under the Editors IPSO code of practice rules as photograph of the Inspire in front of an airliner is misleading, plus as you have said previously the incident at Heathrow has previously been identified as not being Drone related. See what happens..... (not holding my breath as I'll be a long time dead by the time anything happens)

[@eadjh98]

Hope we can win this battle! I don’t see how the FAA and the CAA can have all this power over us!! They don’t actually own all the airspace! God gave it to all of us to use! and enjoy!

[@0gnob]

Not sure what I can do yet, but i'll try my best 👍

[@EnglishTurbines]

Well done Bruce, dont let them grind you down...Local Council clowns, same the World over...😳😏🇬🇧

[@ScatManAust]

Bruce. I agree with everything you say with the exception of two points. 1 The battery evolution breakthrough will never happen; yes, it will improve incrementally but will never be capable of sustaining a multibillion-dollar industry for the likes of drone delivery let alone large-scale air flight. It will never be a viable option for them, but unfortunately does not stop them from trying. I think you and every other person on this earth that believes in this miraculous battery tech is going to be a game changer in ten years is dreaming. The best years of rapid battery tech is long gone and all we are going to see is dribs and drabs of improvement. 2 Even if we do lose our hobby to these money grabbers, they will soon realize that there is not enough profit for them, and they will eventually abandon the whole idea as a bad idea. In the meantime, we would have lost our hobbies and our privileges for ever.

[@xjet]

Yes, it is far easier to retain your freedoms than it is to win them back once they are lost. That's why we must stand our ground right now and not hand over the keys to the future.

[@TTcodfather]

Unfortunately where I live there are two airports and a few sea plane bases all within a circle of a few km's of us. It has been dedicated as drone free and the local RC club has limited space to really get the most from their hobby. All the Provincial Parks are also verboten as are all residential areas. Doesn't leave much left for the hobbyists ...sad and the biggest reason I still only fly my Blade NanoQX and never went bigger. My 3ch sail plane is mostly collecting dust now....sigh!

[@davidwebb4904]

If you just accept the hobby is unalive, then you have nothing to lose. #flashmob #gatwick

[@paulinfrance5]

Thanks again Bruce, but a lot of modellers just sit on their arses and expect people like you to do all the work, and the 'media" have their teeth in it,,,

[@RCDUDEFPV]

:o) Thumbs up all the way

[@TheSadButMadLad]

Photographers get the same bad press that drone fliers do. just because a few people use a drone or camera during some criminal act doesn't make all photographers or pilots criminals.

[@speedtwin5t]

The FAA needs to worry about the 737 Max !

[@toyotahilux8621]

Those muscles are really coming in handy, huh Bruce? How much do you bench?

[@xjet]

I don't have a bench so I don't know. However, I do around 15 dips with 25Kg (55lbs) in a backpack which, if you add my bodyweight, comes to 100Kg.

[@koalatails5711]

Has anyone got in touch, about encouraging people to remove council signs from public spaces. You did remove virtual signs in the introduction, “that can only lead to others imitating your actions in real life”. 🤪

[@chrissofpv3017]

UK police using drones?? ...heaven help the "other planet" 🤗

[@FlipsWart]

Nobody at my local fields are complying with current FAA regs and have no plane to. RID has made legal flying pohibitivly expensive for some and the invasion of privacy and potential danger from karens for others hasnt made anyone safer and has only detered new hobiests.

[@kwikflikzyakadventures3795]

Hey Bruce Hope you are doing well, 3 weeks and no word, just checking Are U Ok?

[@peterbrockman161]

I'm in the fight with you Bruce. I'm a hobby flier and I rarely see any other UAV users in the places I fly. But I do hear the jungle drums beating from every corner where it seems that regulation and overreach is coming to destroy our fun. And to what gain?

[@swampcritterisbackbaby1740]

Now why would a person call the police in the event of an aircraft invading their privacy? Is this a new development or have we already had laws concerning invasion of privacy? NO ONE so far has been able to point to a negative circumstance that may involve the use of hobby aircraft that is not already covered under existing law. In. Every. Single. Nation. Our freedoms are under attack from all sides from the greatest of those to the least of them. Shame on ALL OF YOU who are asking permission to exercise your rights. Since when does the boss ask an employee for a day off? Government needs to be put back into its place of subservience.

[@davidwebb4904]

People on the internet have an attention spam that lasts until the closing credits. Then its on to the next TikTok. Year on year you have seen the level of apathy.

[@DmercuryMoyes]

Your backyard is awesome fly on as I will till the cops turn up ,then school them on regulations! Go hard Bruce also excellent Editting

[@pangit9999]

I didn't know they had 4k cameras when you were a child! lol!

[@FlyingBuzzard]

Bruce the issue still goes back to getting "the Hobby" which equals the community to actually get together and do anything. They had marches a few showed up, they had comments not even half did so, and on and on that fact goes. According to the FAA there are well over 1+ million at one point ,However in 2023 those numbers according to the FAA stand around 864 thousand over all . Hobbyists at 516 thousand and 348 thousand commercial . Of course give or take those who do not need to register and those who simply refuse to register . SO I seriously doubt if any of us could get that 800 thousand to do anything. You may get the rest who do not register and or fly sub 250 that does not need to register, as they are the ones who refuse to bow down to the regulators over regulating sell out nonsense. So that could potentially be 3 to 6 thousand individuals perhaps, which is a good number . Forget the YT guru's and the sell out the hobby crowd that are siding with the CBO's and FRIA club mindless group who can not say or do anything unless their CBO tells them to . Question is how do you intend to grab the attention of those 3-6 thousand in the US and several more thousand around the globe? Unless the FAA is forced to change policies and change their stupidity the rest of the world most likely will not either. It was like writing emails to your committee there about you, few did so, those commission folks simply refused to answer most emails and when they did they lied...SO, we are talking Federal Governments not just local loons when you talk "hobby pushing back" on the regulators. Remains at this point Non-Compliance was the only way to go but again how many actually are being non compliant ? We all Break the rules the second we leave the ground still a fact most in the community still can not understand and the rules written were/are for that reason so when and if they decide to come after whoever, no amount of saying I did what you asked and I followed the rules will prove they have , in fact following them proves how unsafe they truly are. 'll be watching and listening and participating if I can . I still believe this community needs to take the regulators to court and keep them tied up and boycott any and all tied to the commercial side , which we see does indeed have a Huge impact on companies who promote the woke, sell out, communist, steal your freedoms and rights ideology Money is the only thing that seems to make politicians take notice, hit their wallets and their votes and you get their attention really quick !!!

[@l8ur1e]

"Decimated" - That means one in 10 destroyed. I fear it is much worse than that.

[@rustyshaklford9557]

I didn't register my AR-15, I'm sure as shit not going to bother registering a quadcopter.

[@FPVSteve]

If they make a Tesla fly I will start to believe these delivery drones are viable. But they can't, because a) they're too heavy and b) that doesn't even include any payload (or multiple payloads to make it cost efficient). Good on you Bruce, happy new year.

[@finder2342]

Solution: put receivers in drones so that we can see these delivery drones and avoid them.

[@johntisbury]

👍

[@Geckatron]

Yo XJet - hope your doing ok dude - missing your videos 😁

[@rjung_ch]

👍💪✌

[@SeaSide420]

nice catch when that over-regulation fell on you ! Maybe the new regulation ministry of NZ will actually help with overregulation situations? I know, i shouldnt have hope that a bureaucrat will actually reduce bureaucracy. I wish for something else to be un-over-regulated too, but they seem to only possibly allow that as long as they can setup monopolistic revenue generation first. because it seems to be based on greed powered tyranny and not logical safety precautions, so i just ignore that sh!t and be a free lifeform, surfing this ball of rock at 30km per second just how i was born to do. I dont harm anyone as a self imposed guideline of behaviour, but thats not because some bureaucrat threatens to shadow bann my bloodline from society... :D How dare the government assume the gender of my drone! perhaps it identifies as a helium balloon or kite! according to their own ideology they must respect its feelings

[@Jimyjones333]

We were here first they should work around us

[@minigpracing3068]

If air taxis were possible and profitable, Elon Musk would be making and selling them

[@xjet]

No... Elon Musk would be promising that he'd *will* be making them by the end of the year (but not specifying which year exactly) :-)

[@minigpracing3068]

@@xjet true enough

[@Oldgreycowboy]

The only drones I see in our city, have been the Police drones going up and down the street. Instead of patrol cars. They have banned all drones in our major city in Colorado. The couple times I tried to fly a small quad in a field near an empty school during the summer, there were actually 2 different Karens confront me. We can keep trying with the FAA and our politicians. 👍

[@DavidDickerson-i8s]

Yeah man. The only drone I've seen was a big, window washing job, for an apartment building here in Idaho. 😅🎉

[@prussiaaero1802]

Could you make a drone out of a stuffed Karen? (asking for a friend....)

[@robertjeanjohnson4251]

Bruce, I hate to say but Amazon is doing home delivery in Fort Worth Texas with DRONES.....

[@xjet]

It's a trial... which will prove (to them and all others) that it's simply not commercially viable. Google/Wing has done over 100,000 deliveries in Australia and hasn't earned a single cent in revenue let alone profit.

[@TTcodfather]

As always great content and comment on government lackeys who know nothing about the hobby or it's rich history. As for the bad press that is prevalent in the media, ask the Ukrainian drone squads about their fight for freedom and how FPV helped them fight a fairer fight against all odds...David's stone from a sling that toppled a Goliath!

[@brunlort]

it is only because they dont want you to see their spraying over the low cloudline...

[@jwc4520]

OK , I'm old too so I understand the loss would be intolerable. Let me know when to write , then you can be assured of two old facts writing. Take care. Been flying toys for 50 years ...

[@finder2342]

Hey xjet are going to make a video talking about the new dji flycart 30.

[@HoundDogMech]

Regulators before ever making any laws should be tested on their KNOWLEDGE of what they intend to regulate. Upon FAILING to understand what they are Attempting to Regulate be Bared from making any or voting on any such Regulations.

[@vulturedroid9804]

Reporting for duty

[@pdtech4524]

I might even go full on ROGUE this year and fly my Tello FPV spotterless around my garden⚠️😳😲 I'll even go BVLOS behind the shrubbery⚠️⚠️😲😁 If I'm feeling really daring, I'll activate the 'bounce' feature, a highly illegal autonomous flight mode⚠️😲😳😲

[@xjet]

I'll report you!!!! (signed: karen). :-)

[@Paganiproductions84]

Make rc models great again

[@marc_frank]

Job 35:9,10 People cry out when under great oppression; They cry for relief from the dominationa of the powerful. But no one says, ‘Where is God, my Grand Maker, The one causing songs to be sung in the night?’

[@gazza4230]

I was thinking 💭 I’ve not seen video from yourself for couple weeks Bruce hope you haven’t been locked up lol 😂

[@xjet]

No such luck 🙂 I've been working hard on strategies and also some very cool projects that will be appearing in the next few weeks.

[@gazza4230]

@@xjet cool 😎 I’ll keep my eye out

[@johnburns5783]

Ach pay no attention to the drivel printed in the Daily Fail. 😂😂😂

[@xjet]

The problem is that it's the most popular online "news" publication in the world so lots of people read it and are (mis)informed by its pages :-/

[@johnburns5783]

@xjet I only look at it for the photos of scantily clad models on holiday 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@theoztreecrasher2647]

@@johnburns5783 Yep. I used to take print media for the articles. But now that my eyesight is going to the dogs, I can only make out the big round "letters." 😈😜🤣🤣

[@Jimbo-in-Thailand]

Bruce, as always 👍👍 for your efforts. Now then, I have a favor to ask you. Our favorite nutty Yankee dynamic duo, aka Stu & Mikey, is seriously screwing up, even more than usual. His recent live video he was flying waaaaay over the legal limit, so much so that it was even obvious to singer Stevie Wonder. PLEASE try to talk some sense into him before he ends up in Federal jail. As always, Cheers from CE-drone-Hell Thailand!

[@xjet]

Yeah, unfortunately I have a feeling that 2024 is going to be the year when the FAA starts taking infringements a whole lot more seriously than before -- because "national security!"

[@Jimbo-in-Thailand]

@@xjet As a former aircraft owner who enjoyed the privileges of flying with a Private Pilot certificate for years, and later as an ultralight instructor pilot, I now have zero respect for the FAA for, among other recent screwups, intentionally regulating our beloved RC hobby into the ground. A question is this: Who do you think is worse, FAA or EASA? Thailand is loosely an EASA member state, but forces even more draconian rules. Some of these are 90 meter max altitude, no night flying, no flying over people, no flying within 30 meters of buildings and hospitals, mandatory registration of all drones sporting a camera, no flights within 9km IIRC of an airport. Registration is tedious and 3rd-party coverage insurance is mandatory even for sub-250 gram drones sporting a camera. I've just registered my new Mini 4 Pro. I had to go through 2 government agencies as well as buying insurance. My last drone was the original 2019 Mavic Mini. All I had to do to register it was go to the local Thai police station and fill out a registration form. It took about 15 minutes. This time it took a full week. Even then I wasn't notified it passed registration, so I lost an additional week waiting. During that time I was told by Thailand's CAAT aviation authority that I was not allowed to fly the drone until registration was approved. I guess my point is, it ain't just the FAA. Cheers!

[@xjet]

@@Jimbo-in-Thailand Yes EASA is probably one of the worst, the Europeans *love* their rules and regulations. I'm surprised the French haven't rioted in the streets over RID but I guess they're usually already rioting abot something else so nobody would notice 🙂 The fact that the regs differ so much from regulator to regulator is further proof that very little of this is driven by risk management and there are mainly political and commercial imperatives in action here. If that's the case then they should simply be honest about it instead of claiming that it's all about safety and security. These people work for US and I know that as an employer, I would dismiss any worker who consistently lied to me -- so why do they still have a job?

[@pkdsince05]

Hi mate who actually enforces these regulations in NZ? you can easily launch your drone in public in controlled air space do a 360 POV recording right around a departing cruise ship and land it in your hand around public and no one will say anything. Who actually comes up to you and issues you a fine? and why would anyone that wants to take photos and videos in places like mount Maunganui etc actually register there drone, if you don't register you wont get caught and if you do they can track you right, so by registering your just limiting where you can fly. There are tons of people posting videos of amazing locations in parks, scenic reserves which are all banned by DOC and places that are very popular with the public none of these filming locations would be accessible if you registered your drone as you would be caught. Currently you can just launch your drone 1km away from the place you want to film and no one will know where your flying from. why cant they introduce courses that educate people about flying in these locations that are affordable rather then banning them because people will do it anyway currently the part 102 costs far to much (around $3000 I think?) and to long so people just avoid it and fly in these places anyway.

[@martyngregory1282]

With ya on this one Bruce got a cheap drone a couple of months back but it is a Piece of Crap, hope to get a bit better Emax tiny hawk 2 or something similar soon

[@cat637d]

Mortem Tyrannis

[@joshhoman]

Just regulate the camera and commercial drones and leave the model airplanes and helicopters alone. Drones do have some history of abuse, but model aircraft don't hurt anybody on a regular basis.

[@xjet]

Although that sounds correct, it's actually not. People *have* died as the result of the recreational use of model aircraft but so far NOBODY has died as the result of the recreational use of multirotor drones -- making them safer than the traditional hobby. However, the fact is that there are probably ten times more "drones" than traditional RC planes right now so it stands to reason that drones will figure more prominently in the media when something stupid happens. If you crunch the numbers though you'll discover the surprising fact that even drone flyers are actually less of a threat to public safety and create less nuisance than manned aviators (per capita). Don't believe everything you read in a media that focuses on the hysterical and only seeks clicks.

[@joshhoman]

Yes sir, I do agree that practically EVERYTHING is overregulated today, and that we need to push back against an increasingly paranoid society that seeks the illusion of safety at all costs.@@xjet

[@MrJarrod]

I'm up for the fight also.

[@TheCrakkle]

😂😂😂😂😂 Way to go Bruce. The same mentally as the Gatwick carrier bag fiasco makes these idiotic money grubbing rules.

[@ianlloyd100]

Too late. Too little interest from the flyers. People will just move to another hobby.... I applaud your efforts Bruce, but I'm a realist. The people in charge, don't care, and won't listen. Just look at the current story in the UK, about the post office... They do not care....

[@xjet]

Then it is up to us to make them care.

[@michaelsimpson9779]

Like most of Musks ideas, Hyperloop, bases on Mars, Full Self Driving cars..... 10 years away (hint, Cough cough, BS......)

[@Daniel_Callie]

Well done Bruce - why the hell doesn’t AMA and all the many butt kissing KZbinrs in our hobby speak up?

[@xjet]

The AMA is probably more than happy with the way things have worked out -- they have FRIAs and that means they can sell their membership by way of another benefit (no RID needed at AMA fields). As for other KZbinrs, I guess most don't want to get involved, they're probably more focused on the increasingly difficult task of paying their bills by way of KZbin revenues (which continue to fall). Unfortunately we can only bury our heads in the sand for so long... once the hobby has contracted (as it will) too much then neither the AMA nor KZbin influencers will be sustainable in the way they have been. I suspect however, that the companies making RC gear and FPV drones will be laughing all the way to the bank -- because recent conflicts have prompted a number of countries to announce that they'll be making as many as a million FPV drones a year for their war campaigns. That's a *LOT* more than have been sold to the hobby on an annual basis so the hobby becomes kind of secondary at that stage.

[@wrstew1272]

That thumbnail is fake! The kid has hair 😂

[@xjet]

Hahaha

[@rctezluh42069]

i got talked to in the united states for a line of sight 170gram foamie plane that is built for night by the law dogs :/ upvoted!!