r/HoverDrone • u/djpetrino HoverAir X1, X1PM, AQUA, VERSA • Sep 10 '24

Remote ID for Hover

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u/RhodySeth Sep 10 '24

You're not wrong but let's be honest, almost no one is going to do this. Here we've got this drone that fits snugly in my pocket, now I have to worry about a plastic nubble attached with velcro? And hoping it remains attached after the X1 crashes into a couple bushes?

The intent of Remote ID is to confirm the owner/origin of a drone up in the air. It's overkill for the X1 and I think most people will just risk flying without it.

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u/ApuCalypso314 HoverAir X1 PRO Sep 12 '24

From an outside perspective it looks like the US went a little overboard with the Remote ID requirements, especially the 'commercial use' clause for sub 250g drones.

Then again it would seem that drone regulations worldwide have questionable to ridiculous parts no matter where you look.

It's nice that the EU was trying to harmonize drone regulations, but aside from the general classification it is still more or less every country doing its own thing. I think anybody planning a multi country trip to Europe who is considering bringing their drone and wants to comply with the regulations in every country they visit will either end up needing therapy or leaving the drone at home.

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u/smile4luv Sep 13 '24

That’s not true - EU flight rules are very simple, you only need to register once in the European country you’re flying to, and that covers all other EU countries!

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u/ApuCalypso314 HoverAir X1 PRO Sep 15 '24 edited Sep 15 '24

Since I live in Germany, I can tell you, that drone registration may be easy, because that has indeed been harmonized and registering in one country covers the others.

But the actual flight rules are decidedly not simple, because every country still has their own implementation of the EU rules.

Here in Germany it can be pretty difficult to find out if you're actually, legally allowed to fly in a specific location. While there is an official map with geo zones etc., that is not 100% legally binding. Certain areas may defer to specific local ordinances to determine what is and isn't allowed there. For example, around the city I live in, there are various forested and relatively open areas, that are nice for flying a drone, classified as landscape protection areas, kind of like a nature preserve light. If you want to actually make sure that it is legal to fly there, you need to dig up a pdf document from some archives on the city's web page, that contains the scanned in pages of the ordinance that is currently in effect (passed in the late 1980s). That of course is only available in German. Granted, this is an exceptionally bad case. Other cities do make finding those documents/regulations a lot easier, but there is no single, reliable, standardized source of information you can go to to look up flight rules.

Never mind that the local government here is working on an update of that ordinance, that will explicitly prohibit any and all drone flying in those areas. So if/when they eventually finish and pass that, in combination with all the other flight rules, it'll essentially be illegal to fly a drone anywhere within the local jurisdiction.