Drone News: 21 October 2022 (90 million safe flights!)

foreign [Music] welcome back to RC model reviews and another drone News Bulletin bulletin of news about the hobby today it's pretty much focused on drones and I'm going to start with the Federal Aviation Administration now the U.S Department of Transport has announced 12 new appointees to their Advanced Aviation advisory committee what's that you might ask well it's a group of people that the FAA uses for advice and guidance when it comes to things like regulating the Drone industry and the hobby the the FAA realizes they don't know everything so they're going to get a bunch of really smart folks stick them in a room and give them tasks they task them to come up with with guidance in certain areas be it Beyond visual line of sight flying or whatever they give them these tasks and they go away and they come back with with their reports and then they they tell the FAA what they recommend in terms of changes and and rules and all that sort of stuff so it's a really really important committee now before we get started we need to look at a piece of data that piece of data is the fact that four and every five drone flights is conducted recreationally so that's eighty percent of every drone flight every uas flight in America is recreational in nature that's pretty important because you would think then that if this this advisory committee is going to be advising the FAA on the creation of rules and giving them guidance there should be a fairly good representation of the hobby on that committee but there's not um before these new appointees there were just two members from The Hobby in fact they weren't actually purely hobby Representatives both of them have commercial interests in the Drone industry so there is no pure hobby representation on this really important committee that guides the FAA in making rules and planning the future of drones in the American airspace it's rather unusual and it's also rather uh worrying but I thought well 12 new appointees there's got to be someone from The Hobby in that lot right well let's just scan through scan through the people that have been appointed um we have the chief executive officer of the national business Aviation Association well that's not a hobby appointee we have the um Chief Operating Officer of the Port of Seattle well I don't think his interests are from the hobby point of view we have the Chief Executive Officer of ferovield verti ports enough Sid we have a professor of aerospace engineering from the University of Michigan we have the founder and chief executive officer of amra Technologies clearly a commercial interest the executive director of advanced technology initiatives Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma we have Executive Vice President of the national air traffic controllers Association again this is a commercial interest vice president flight operations and safety for UPS well they're definitely a commercial interest the head of Aviation Regulatory and legal Affairs at zipline which is a very successful commercial operator the president and general counsel of Blade air Mobility again it's another commercial operator chief executive office officer of the helicopter Association International commercial and executive director for Community air Mobility initiative so there we go they had an opportunity to redress the imbalance actually to give us any pure representation and they failed they chose not to and this is worrying because it shows the level of contempt now yeah I used the word I don't use it lightly the word the level of contempt that the FAA holds for this hobby we we don't count for beans count for nothing even though we are the single largest user of drones and the sub 400 foot airspace by a country bile we don't count for anything all the people on the advisory committee have commercial interests they have commercial interests and therefore their decisions are focused solely on how can we make money out of this airspace and how can we sideline a hobby that's just inconveniently in the way now it's turning into a rant I don't want this to be a rent that I'm doing a rant on xjet so if you're not a subscriber to my exchange Channel go over there now and subscribe because you will get a lot more information also that's the fun side of things it's it's showing how the hobby can be enjoyed by everybody it's the promotional side of the hobby but also it's calling Regulators to account but I just wanted to cover this up this appointment because I think they're very important right next piece of news DJI make a product called the aeroscope what's that you say it is a device that you think about remote ID it's a device that listens out for drones mainly listens apps for listens out for dji's own drones which you've had a form of remote ID for a very long time and so it listens out for drones and when it detects a drone it logs the data where the operator is where the Drone is its flight path what it was doing all that sort of stuff and identifying information such as who the Drone is registered to through the DJI activation system remember you can't fly DJI drone without activating it first so it knows who's flying all that sort of stuff and it logs it and in America in America one company has 66 of these aeroscopes and it runs 53 of them in the USA and that company's been uploading all the data from these aeroscope units to a database on an Amazon web services server in America and just recently 54 gigabytes of that data was leaked or if you like back to the 80s 54 gigabytes of that data was leaked and we learned some interesting stuff from that league first of all the figure was 80k user IDs now I assume that's individual DJI activation accounts so 80 000 individual users operating these drones or registered users of these drones but here's the real number we should be looking at there were 90 million flights logged in this database 90 million flights now we don't know over what period of time this database covered but 90 million flights that's a huge number of flights and if we assume that four to one ratio that's over 70 million recreational drone flights logged by this aeroscope system now my question is with over 70 million recreational drone flights logged where are the deaths where are the significant injuries where is the property damage that should have occurred and this this is absolutely safe which I think this conclusively proves recreational drone flying is totally safe so why do we need more regulation more restriction remote ID all these constraints and restrictions on what we The Hub are allowed to do how does that come to pass well it comes to past because we have no regulation and there's no representation on that committee that advises the FAA that committee is going to advise the FAA what's best for industry not what's best for the Hobby and of course we have the AMA and other other groups that have been bought off with the the option of all the the prize of being a CBO and having free as they've been bought off they're not representing the hobby they're representing themselves anyway as I say dangerously bordering on a rent let's get on with the news now interesting thing has happened at Dallas uh one of the uh runways at Dallas airport had to be closed because GPS interference has been upsetting the navigational equipment on the aircraft and this raises an extremely important question now the judge that ruled on the challenge to the faa's remote ID Bill recently started out their summary with the words drones are coming and lots of them yeah that's what we're told this is what we're told by everybody all those people on that advisory committee are telling us oh we're the industry is going to grow we're going to have all these drones delivery drones Advanced Air Mobility let's let's Pilot's flying taxis e-vert holes all that sort of stuff um this this is all coming the skies will be filled with our drones um so get get the hobby out of the space we need it for all this activity now my question is um what happens when this sort of thing GPS interference causes all those drones or at least drones in a certain area maybe over a highly populated area to to not know where they are the GPS disappears they have no way to determine where they are or where they're going because GPS is what they use there's no fallback there is no pilot sitting in the in the in the driver's seat the reason this didn't affect the aviation industry too much is because all these airliners have Pilots so if the GPS system fails and they have to switch to other navigational AIDS or they have to reroute it's not a problem they can do that there's a pilot there's wet wear in the cockpit to take care of that but with a delivery drone you will have like Google Wing in Australia they don't have one pilot for every drone that's flying delivery routes they have probably one pilot for all the drones so if suddenly all the drones say we don't know where we are help what is he going to do is it in fact I'll tell you what he's going to do he's going to do a precautionary Landing like this where the wing delivery drone landed on electrical lines cutting power in an Aussie town in fact one of the reports said the dragon actually burst into flames um so there's no fallback there is no fullback imagine you're in a flying taxi whizzing above the the urban landscape and your pilotless flying taxi suddenly stops because the GPS signal has is no longer usable interference or something else has caused the loss of GPS what does your air Mobility unit do it it doesn't know where it is it doesn't know where to go all it can do is go down and if something below like power lines or people or a freeway happens to be in the way really bad things are going to happen as happened with the Google Wing thing now imagine the Google Wing thing they were very lucky now this drone a precautionary Landing shows you they have very little control or they would not have chosen to land on power lines and and cut the power to an entire District of of a town or possibly risk the Drone bursting into flames so they have very little control and that was just one drone it wasn't suddenly hundreds of drones all at once needing help it was just one drone and they couldn't land it safely so imagine if that in this case imagine if the land on the power lines caught on fire has got maybe Plastics and things maybe the plastic then drips down onto a child underneath maybe there's a child in a pram underneath the power lines and that child the pram could have caught on fire this was not a safe situation this is just one drone one drone and as I say there are hundreds of drones and we have this same situation where GPS goes out the results don't even bear thinking about so why again let me put the question why is the FIA so intent on regulating hobbyists out of the airspace because we're too dangerous yet they're allowing them in fact they're encouraging they're promoting this use of the airspace by things that have no fallback there's no safety mechanism there's no way to to mitigate a total failure of GPS it just things will fall from the sky they seem to think that's okay though there's no I don't understand as hobbyists we could point out the Folly of this but anyway as I say this is not a this is not a rant this is just a news thing I thought those were the things you might like to see things that piqued my curiosity this week in the newswise and if you want more of this let me know and I will be doing rants as I say on xjet I've got some videos that I'm making for The Regulators it's about time we inform The Regulators just watch right for far too long we have set back as a community as a hobby and waited for The Regulators to present rules to us and so and then allow us to comment then ignore most of the comments and say well this is what you have to do I think that's wrong I think that's wrong we are the ones with Decades of knowledge experience and understanding of what we're doing um we shouldn't be dictated to by a bunch of Suits who sit behind a desk or have a strong commercial interest and have never done what we do they're going to it's like they've never done fpv flying they've never done half the stuff we do but they're going to tell us how to do it safely even though that aeroscope report indicates we're already doing it incredibly safety we don't need their help in fact they need our help we're the ones that have been doing BV lost flight for almost two decades and today in the the committee meeting they only just start to get going on coming up with strategies and procedures for BV loss we've already done it for nearly 20 years so why not come to us and get help from the experts but they can't do that they can't bring themselves to do that we have no representation it's very sad it's very tragic and it is the subject of some videos and rants coming up on next year in the meantime thank you for watching thank you to my patreon supporters you make this all possible that's very important in the meantime thanks for watching bye for now

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Length: 12min 13sec (733 seconds)

Published: Fri Oct 21 2022