(12-Jan-2024, 07:38 PM)MomoBrut Wrote: I've spent over an hour asking about it, and I'm still not entirely sure how it is, but maybe I'm right and I've been given the right information.

If the information you've been given is correct then that is really good news for FPV and wing hobbyists.

Out of interest, who did you ask? Was it EASA themselves or just members (hobbyists) on another forum / social media site?

I'm sorry, but I'm definitely not going to talk to the EASA representative, I don't like them. I discussed with several people, for example with a representative of a company that conducts training for both open and specific categories and with people from the management of the national modeling association.

I believe that additional explanatory information will appear in the coming days, e.g. as part of the updated national rules for 2024. It is a bit incomprehensible to someone who is not from Europe, but I always talk about national rules, because EASA only issues decrees that national associations must meet and often with some exception or some extra rules. So in the end you have to follow the national rules.

In any case, even on the original link there is a table with the categories of drone types, I am putting the table here as well...
There are really three types of drones from the point of view of who ever made them, only these three, no others, for the year 2024 the category of transitional types of drone has disappeared:

• with C label - drones in the open category bearing the designation C0, C1, C2, C3, always made by the manufacturer,
  
• legacy - drones without a C label, because they are older and made by the manufacturer at a time when the C label was not mandatory for the manufacturer,
  
• privately built - without a C label, privately build drones, i.e. those that we build ourselves.
  

And the above change only applies to C label drones and legacy drones. Well, nowadays all drones with C label have a built-in RID. So the change, translated into plain language, means that owners of old DJI and other commercial drones should get a RID.

And this is a typical case of the stupidity of EASA, that they are not able to provide clear, understandable information. All that nonsense would then fit into 10 sentences.

Bureaucrats are excellent at providing confusing information that often cannot even be interpreted.

So I did reach out to EASA to settle a discussion I had in my friends circle. 

my question:
It is unclear to me on how the remote ID requirement applies to self built drones within the A3 subcategory.
Is it necessary to obtain remote ID for theses types as well or not as self-built does not fit into c0 and upwards


This is what they came back with:

Quote:Dear Mr. XXX,

Only drones with class mark C1,C2, C3 and those flying in the specific category are required to be operated with an active Remote ID. All the other drones (including privately built) are required to have Remote ID only when operated in the geographical zones defined by NAA where Remote ID is mandatory for all.





Best regards;

Drone Section

European Union Aviation Safety Agency



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Tel.: +49 221 89990-5211

Postal: Postfach 10 12 53, 50452 Cologne, Germany

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So unless your countries NAA (National Airspace Authority) is defining mandatory zones, no Remote-ID necessary for self-built.
Hope this helps