RAF Reg, you can see the mudguard
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I assume @Mozza663 was talking about the guy in blues directly behind Two-Tier between 0:35 to 0:45? There’s no mudguards on blues. Also, mudguards don’t necessarily rule out CFAV. </spotter pedantry>
New CAA rule updates:
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Thanks Mike,
Some of the changes here and more importantly changes made to the training qualifications have seen us have to significantly adjust our syllabii for cadets and CFAVs. Honestly a bit of a nightmare. But we are getting there.
We are going to be able to provide the newest qualifications to our CFAV and cadets through a network of regional instructors. The work to train these is, as you may be aware, is well underway.
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This maybe suited to general chat but does the reduction down to 100g affect all the YouTube auditors with their 249g drones?
Yes. Essentially it means a toy now. If you have mini drone with a camera of any type it’s now out of scope. If I were to guess, it’s been done to prevent exactly the activity you describe.
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I’m not going to cut & paste the CAA’s explanation as it is covered in the link shared above, but it’s safety, clarity and to encourage industry to make it easier to identify if a drone is a ‘toy’ or not.
Some manufacturers have pushed the limit of 250g to the point where adding a different battery or even prop guards could exceed it.
From a pro user point of view, it’s the right call.
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I have seen auditor videos where coppers have weighed the drone just to be sure.
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you mention motor skills,
there is something that can be done in a classroom environment, good for during dark winter months, simulating drone controls.
Most of the RC transmitter units have a port to help run in trainer mode. The same port can be used to change it into a PC peripheral, much like a joystick.
People in the FPV space will recommend exactly this, helps to develop muscle memory. Pressing reset on a sim is free.
Do you have any links/examples?
We have just bought a number of these to trial. If you ask the RPAS TTO nicely he may allow you to have a go!!
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If you have a DJI RC2 controller a new update was pushed today where they a simulator program inbuilt in the controller which allows you to practice flights and actions of a DJI UAV as a standalone device, you don’t need to contect to the internet or the actual drone itself to operate the sim
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I think DJI might be banned.
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Not banned, just restricted as to where they can be used. The majority of our training drones are DJI and have the RC2 controller as it happens. But I don’t see this being widely adopted due to the problems it presents with security on sites, especially some AGS.
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