Drone and RC plane news, 27 April, 2024
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- More news and information for those who fly drones and RC planes for fun or profit. In this week's edition:
- why investing in the eVTOL AAM industry might not be a good idea right now.
- Drone Racing League is sold for a quarter of a billion dollars
- NASA confirms that "space junk" was a piece of Inconel from the ISS
- Amazon moves drone delivery trials from California to Arizona
- Counter-UAS fail in France during lead-up to Olympics
- Warnings of a major tragedy at a US airport if things don't improve
- CASA commissions a drone survey in Australia
- I'm looking for beta-testers for the ADSB alarm.
Relevant links:
The CASA online survey:
surveys.lonergan.team/s3/3305...
DRL sold
archive.today/2024.04.23-11291...
Failure of CUAS systems in French trials pre-Olympics:
www.france24.com/en/sport/202...
The impending aviation disaster at US airports:
• "STOP, STOP STOP!!" R...
Amazon ends California drone trials
techcrunch.com/2024/04/22/ama...
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The reason that those taxis have to be pilotless is you couldnt find a pilot that would step inside one.
Bruce you are spot on! Overreaching legislative nonsense! Unfortunately money talks!
Driving an F1 car most likely requires less licensing than flying a drone.
You need less licencing to launch a rocket into space than fly a sub 250g toy drone! 😮😊😳
i only heard about drone safety day because of Bruce lol. I'm done complying with pointless laws.
The CASA survey seems to be their way of announcing RID is about to become mandatory in Australia.
Bruce, I sure hope some sanity comes to this hobby. I truly believe all the regs are just one more thing to deflect away from real issues our governments have created. All of us out here sure have fun flying, racing and other silliness. I have made some great friends with this hobby, people I chat with now almost every day. Building racing wings and drones has expanded my knowledge and given me new skills that are fun and keep the brain sharp. This is a great hobby and thank you for what you do.
"Taxi it back!"
Again and again,you are very very right,I think about this all the time,The FAA can't regulate full scale aviation,but they want Remote ID and registration on all our models to make the airspace safe,I'm the mean while,Boeing 737 max is are coming apart mid flight,but yet,us R/C pilots are the problem.
Glad to hear the ADSB Alarm is chugging along...
oldguyFPV; If you make yourself a sheeple, the FAA wolves will eat you! Fly safe and fly free!
Don’t have the SDR but can get one:::: keep in touch
It's not a case of if a major airline accident happens, but when .
They are targeting drones because
" something must be done " and targeting drones is ,"Something .
Thanks for all the news, Bruce! 🤘😊
Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
Personally I am super excited about drone racing. I think it is right up there with NASCAR and its going to be a huge hit! Did anyone else catch what the French are worried about? Not the people, no... their only concern was the capital building! That should tell everyone all they need to know about France government!
OH NO!!! I took the CASA survey........ some tricky and incriminating questions in there.
BRAVO
Hi Bruce, yup, keen to be a Beta tester: have Pi (& Zero2) along with the radio dongle for testing. Tick on the python coding as well (ok, tinkering rather than fulltime hard coder there). As for location: north end of Dunedin, so get a few commercial jets at altitude, but mostly get helis and the occasional recreational fixed wing flying overhead.
I always enjoy your videos thank you.
Thanks Bruce another interesting update
thanks for the news Bruce 👍👍👍👍👍
Hi bruce , anither great video. Any linksto the sdr module ?
FAA needs to do better before going after the quadcopters and RC planes and fix up the mess that they let happen, donuts!
I live too close to an airport so the alarm won't work here. I also don't have the prerequisites, but I really like how all this is taking shape, server, all. Good on you Bruce.
Cheers 👍💪✌
If I'm not to close to Manchester airport, me and my good friend Dean would be prime candidates for testing your adsb.
We already have all the hardware and we are both in IT support.
Can anyone link me the info please.
Hi Bruce, I did the survey. It's clearly and excuse to introduce mandatory remote id. It says "considering." Which is Government speak for, "we going to introduce it and say we consulted the public."
Probably Arizona because DroneUp is delivering Walmart here already. Definitely not 'sparsely populated' in Metro Phoenix for about 50 miles any direction from city center.
Great ending Bruce 🤣👍
In Phoenix Arizona, there are driverless cars for taxis. Waymo
Drones that don’t fly!!😂
Hi Bruce! I'm up for testing the ADSB alarm. I live next to Schiphol (AMS), one of the busiest airports in Europe. I also have an android phone, raspberry pi, rtlsdr and programming skills!
I have both free and convict ancestory. Some people do indeed live in Australia and i for one would like to keep it that way. except the government don't see it that way. I completed the servey from casa. Thanks for the link. I will not be complying. So you might say the convict DNA is strong in this one.
Where I'm at near Boeing at Paine Field, is mostly a municipal airport, with some commercial. I'm about 3 miles away and fly here regularly. Its Class D with a 200' ceiling.
I blame PID tuning! 😛
Definitely up for testing ADSB Alarm I’m near Swindon so not near a big airport but have planes passing by and maybe the odd military aircraft too. Have a nice circa 1000ft (297m) hill nearby so could maybe do some range testing too?
In the introduction to the CASA Survey (conducted by Lonergan Research), it says "None of (the) responses will be passed on to CASA".
So if that's the case, what's the point of doing the survey in the first place? It's an exercise in futility 🙄🥴🤷🏻♂️
I live about 6 miles from the California Amazon drone thing. I drive that way for breakfast or lunch about 4 to 5 times a week. Never seen one in the air and I only ever heard about one flying once. I think they were just draining some grant money or something. They have a huge building with security but I think everyone inside was playing video games.
Glad to see you're okay with all the earthquakes in your area first one to like it😊
When you've got Parkinson's, earthquakes go unnoticed :-)
@@xjet maybe you're the cause of the earthquake😜🤪😉😍
Hi Bruce. I live approximately 75kms from YXS in British Columbia, Canada which has regularly scheduled airline flights, and the local airport has a private flight school and the occasional air-ambulance traffic. I am willing to help with your ADSB beta testing, and have an assortment of Pies and related equipment.
i remember a day years ago at the local flying field there was a lad flying a quarter scale pattern ship he was doing flat spins as close to the ground as he could , about an hour later the police were blasting down the field looking for the downed plane that someone had reported we all had s good laugh
I used to fly towed paragliders on an airfield. On one occasion, the police were called over "I saw a parachute over there! There must have been a crash...!" 🤣
Bless them.
Whose VTOL is it that splashed...a link?
Mr Ortega was told by both NASA and his insurance company,, it was an act of God. Meaning no compo or insurance payout. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
The body count in General (Light) Aviation in the US is climbing every week, never mind Air Transport.
Hey Bruce. I have been following your ADSB project with great interest for some time already. Therefore quite keen to be a beta tester. I am an electronics engineer/firmware develeper. I do own a few Raspberri Pi's and a SDR module. And I live on Auckland North shore. Not near an airport but definitely have a few planes and military aircraft flying over here. I think I am the type of person that can give good feedback too. So therefore I would enjoy being a beta tester. Maybe I can even be of some assistance with the development too.
My status as a Boomer is really showing up again now. I am trying to figure out how to get to your "community tabs" but I have not idea what that is or where to find it.
All "surveys" are worded to produce the data that the survey sponsor wants.
Bruce can you update us on what is going on at Tokoroa airport regarding model flying ? Has it been stopped ?
Try Chase rc on the Toob.
Landed 😂 not heard that for a while.
So how are all the guys at Tokoroa airfield?
Using the …drone scanner…I can’t see no one flying anywhere.This app any good?
Is there a other app to try?
We have two airfields near us, White Waltham and ten miles away Booker airfield and I’m 20 miles away from Heathrow , how ever I only have apple devices , would this be of use?..🤔
hey bruce what do you think of variable pitch multirotors for manned use, with an inboard engine setup. leaves greater redundancy, possibly autorotation on engine failure. mechanical drive/control to the rotors, would still need to be fly by wire of course. ive always been surprised that this isnt explored more at that scale
I think the engineering work to make 4 variable pitch rotors work together is a waste vs just building a conventional helicopter for the same purpose. Plus a helicopter has better disc loading. For unmanned heavy lift I think chinook style craft would be more practical
@@patrickpendergast898 in the context of a recreational manned vehicle i still think it would be great, with the added manuverebility compared to a heli. definitely less efficient though. also think its still simpler than a heli, no swashplate required, its effectively 4 heli tail rotors
Whoah! I didn't know SpaceX was active in the air taxi industry.
Hi Bruce, I live in the UK in Cambridgeshire and have several light airfields around me. We get quite some gliders around as well as many other light aircraft at low altitude. We also get passed over at altitudes of 8000' - 32000' by international aircraft. If this meets your requirements as a beta tester. Please get in touch. regards
They're overcrowded like you wouldn't believe. Allegiant airlines is helping out. So are all the other budget airlines. They turn the airline business into airborne buses. America doesn't like to invest in its infrastructure. I think airports are infrastructure. But I guess we don't need to spend money on that. But I think pilots for UPS have a different opinion of that. They have to fly out of the same airport. Spend some time at SeaTac or O'Hare or any of the large airports in the United States. Private planes cargo plane passenger airline fly out of the same airport.
Oops ! I don't know if I would fly in one of those , but I still like to see a Jetson one. What ? DRL sold for 1/4 billion dollars. It's amazing there hasn't been more accidents. I would love to be a tester, I have airplanes flying, but I don't have a raspberry pie, that airtaxi reminds me of the drone police drone motorcycle In Dubai. Thanks for the video and news.
Teleportation is what we should be working on .imagine teleportation to London from NY .in seconds
So I've been thinking, since free flight "drones" need remote ID as well and the definition of drone is so nebulous (I've not been able to find anything on the FAA page defining them as vehicles with lift surfaces), with the 250g weight limit and "any distance off of the ground" regulation, doesn't a BASKETBALL need remote ID?
As a matter of fact I refuse to get my part 107 even though I post drone videos on CZcams and tiktok lol.
Ummmmmm just watched the video of the crashing drone over a few times and it looks very much like it's actually in fs2020 or FSX I could be wrong 😅😅😅
Obviously it was the DJI update that caused the crash.
It's okay we'll just activate auto-pilot mode!
Not sure it's a technological maturity question, I'm fairly convinced that if the need for autonomous short range aerial transportation of one or two persons was real we'd have them buzzing around decades ago?
Even modern feasibility it's tech looking for a niche that isn't already occupied by cars, helicopter, funiculars, elevators, ultralights ..
I'm not getting part 107 so I can race a drone outside
Hello Bruce, I would love to sign up for your ADSB alarm unit. I have two locations in California. My office is on Treasure Island in the middle of the BAY ( San Francisco ). We have low flying aircrafts over the Bay all the time. We have KOAK, KSFO with 10SM.
The other local would be in Sonoma County, Kenwood there is nothing around while KSTS is 20SM away,
Love to test it, I am using flight radar 24 for years. But flight radar 24 does not work below 100ft in the bay area.
That being said I build drone case for drone inspections, I would like to explore the possibility to install your unit in my cases as an option.
Looking forward to your reply. regards keep up the good work.
Good idea with the independent party doing the Pen testing!
Another oops by Boeing -
Delta flight makes emergency return after exit slide separates from Boeing aircraft
- April 26, 20243:08 PM ET
Hi Bruce, I'd like to be a beta tester, I;m a committee member of Shropshire Model Flying Club, in the UK, we will I think be a perfect fit as we get a number of full size aircraft flying into our patch despite a Notams advising pilots of our presence. Thanks Andrew
Pilotless passenger planes, not just multirotor, have similar problems as driverless cars. They are about 10 years away, much like for the past 50 years they were about 10 years away.
Hey Bruce first like first comment lol
Worldwide there have already been blood and flames over who is on the right bit of Tarmac, the USA has had at least one example. The big difference is that there is a new media industry making news out of what used to start and stop with paper investigations and no pax phone footage. The regulators have been worn out by such events and found no solutions without serious costs in time or money. Treating the newcomer drones as regulator rations is a welcome low risk distraction even if transparently absurd.
Raspberry pie? I'm more of an apple or pumpkin pie guy. Sorry Bruce.
Another Boeing ejected one of it's emergency slides in flight today over the usa. They haven't found the slide yet.
Think I'll keep my investments in teleport devices.
But those are not the drones you're looking for... 😊
What is happening in America is due to the current practice of hiring to check boxes instead of checking qualifications and abilities. Our government officials, faa included, are the best that money can buy.
Bruce i’am not sure but I heard Kevin has been transferred out of drones for the FAA. Check with Let’s Talk Drones who is not happy with his response back from Kevin. Well RID is up and running 100% I guess he moved on to make the airports and aircraft safe.
Are you going to make a video about Mikey? Did you see what happened?
Hey Bruce! Long time watcher of your YT news and rants since the early days...I live just outside 5mi from SLINT in Salt Lake City Utah...would like to test your Android app...I work from home, but can monitor an app on my phone for proximity alarms basically every day fro. My home office, I live between the SLINT approach, and municipal airport approach that goes right over my house...what I am interested in is an aĺlit itude based alarm within a certain proximity, to myself, say 1 mile radius to give me a heads up to air traffic. Im me for an e-mail if your interested in having me test it out on my Android phone.
I'd never fly on a 4 prop quad. No amount of pilot shit will save you if you lose a prop.
HIRE CRAIG SINGLETON,,, HE WILL EXPLAIN HOW THE FAA IS PERFECT
filled out the CASA survey, another survey full of dodgei questions that is destine for the memory hole.
Regarding the adsb... I'm not a good beta test person, my programming and Linux skills are too basic. I'm more like an RC or production release person. Sorry.
So you think it's only bad at American airports?That sounds a bit prejudice
Government identifies & promotes a danger, then offers to protect it's subjects from it. Drones are not in any way a danger but many paranoid folks could be convinced to fear them. Now government comes to rescue us. What have we gained? Increased taxes.
Crash looks fake. Why the sudden zoom out and cut before the weird looking impact?
If you think the FAA is lost in it's, ways, here is an interesting video to confuse and compound your views.....
czcams.com/video/988j2-4CdgM/video.htmlsi=0Zn3OmFPmpV4gFzt
Maybe the FAA just think they need to be all over this new, complex problem of unmanned aviation before it becomes as much a problem as manned aviation!
Someone hit the Acro switch by accident.......
The airlines can rest assured, no matter what the outcome they have met their diversity requirements so everything's good.
Seems like a poor way to invest $250m if the government is actively legislating against young people taking up the hobby due to requiring all of this ID nonsense - or even being allowed to fly drones. Remember young Luke who dominated the racing? Would he have been able to fly legally back then if the current regulations were in place?
Saying you shouldn't invest in a technology because its not good yet is exactly the opposite thing you be saying. People should invents so the companies have the funds and resources to make their thing better.
Issue is Those drones in the Middle East and in Ukraine is what the general public assume ( as the media leads their thinking ) OUR Hobby drones are compiled of the same thing and we Hobbyists are potential terrorists and peeping tom's etc that will cause a catastrophe any second when we fly as we hear almost daily of a manned aircraft claiming to hit or see or miss a DRONE , even when no drones are ever involved unlike what many of these YT video creators like to show and talk about but never go back and retract their statements and actually say NO DRONES were ever involved.
I am more likely in today's world to have space junk hit me or a manned aircraft fall on me or a car run over me then i will ever see a Drone ( other than my own that is ) and never will be hit by one ( again unless I hit myself )
Bruce we both are old enough to remember being promised flying cars, jet packs to fly to work and lessen city traffic and routine flights to the moon and vacation on mars and many other such claims
We also are old enough to know most all these claims by various members of the Commercial Drone Alliance groups are just that "claims" . They have and are throwing Billion$ at Governments to buy the airspace and force us out, and Those politicians are eating it up because their lobbyists are lining the pockets of those Politicians and in a few years the majority of these taxi, drone delivery nonsense will go completely silent, BUT the over regulation and nonsense rules for our flying TOYS will not be reversed. They will find a way to tax us even more to enjoy our hobby, that is what Governments do
One Congressman from Texas, Cruz is his name addressed the Manned aviation issues in the US to the FAA in those meetings before they voted on the FAA Reauth Act. He even showed vids of those near misses among airliners at airports. Since then we have had dozens and dozens of the same near misses and not to mention multiple aircraft crashes to deaths, to aircraft landing in highways to fields and one the other day a 1969 Cessna crashing among an apartment complex and they hit nothing and if you see the pic it is amazing the pilot was not harmed and no one on the ground was touched. BUT to many of these issues are happening almost daily .
BUT the talk is still OUR TOYS are the real danger. Not to mention Drug cartels using drones to spy on Homeland security to border patrol and to smuggle drugs across our Southern Border...but in hearings they use those sightings of cartel drones as an example as to why they need to regulate and rule OUR TOYS out of the skies IN the U.S..
Frustrating to say the least and btw RID will never solve ANY issues that may arise by drone use.
But they tout how RID will keep the NAS safe from "rogue" drones and terrorist attacks etc.
Sickening ....
I am flying along in a air taxi when it runs into a whole pile of Canadian geese. I'll bet that AI, in the air taxi will had that with no problem. I think I'll just stick to my trawler, Fred my auto pilot does a great job. I fly my drone right off of the boat nobody bothers me.
If you cut regulations. If you don't give the FAA a budget so they can hire individuals that can work at airports. What do you expect is going to happen. They've been kicking the financial can down the road for how many years. They financially gutted the FAA a long time ago. How many agents do they have now check on it. People retire you have to hire new people how do you do that with a budget from four or five years ago.
With how they are spending what they do have i woould say they are still over funded.
Have you ever been to Boeing. Have you seen the assembly line where it used to be. Do you know what kind of engineering you need to work as an investigator at the FAA. Do you know what these people get paid. And then you tell me you know about the funding no you don't. I do think you're a crazy ass Republican.