Correction, RID is not a digital license plate, the better analogy would be a flying ankle monitor. A digital license plate would only broadcast the serial number of the drone, and nothing else. Since it broadcasts the serial number plus the drone's speed, altitude, heading, position, take off position, and operator position, the latter analogy is more appropriate. Imagine having a license plate on your car that transmitted the street you were, the direction you are travelling and your speed to any police car in the area. I am sure no one would argue with that, right?
Originally I had a comment in the video of how much I dislike that analogy for so many reasons, but opted to remove it right before publishing and just state the facts in this one and not detract from the rest of the announcement... 👽
No one has a right, especially a government agency, whether in public or not, to force a citizen to wave their constitutionally protected rights (1st, 4th, 5th, 6th Amendments) and submit to, without probable cause and/ or a 4th Amendment warrant, government tracking, surveillance, and control of a citizens private movements while enjoying a business or hobby, all while collecting and recording evidence that can, and will be used against a citizen in any FAA prosecution against them. And, in most cases, forcing a citizen to pay for the surveillance equipment that will be used against them. How is this constitutional?
What gets me is so many people complaining about the overreach of RID. But I have yet to hear anyone complain about how much personal information they give away every day from their smart phone, computer, automobile, Alexa, social media and so on. All the forgoing items mentioned are either tracking you or capable of tracking you by the government and who knows else. I'm not a proponent of RID. But by far it is the least of my worries about government and civilian overreach.
I think for me it's a bit different than that. The tracking isn't data mining in this case, but the ability by anyone in the general public to track a persons actual location in real time, pinpointing a person, raising the likelihood of being physically assaulted or robbed. I'm certain there will be class action lawsuits when these start happening.
@AlienDrones I do not dispute your answer here. But in the right hands, the above items I mentioned can be used to do physical harm to others. Look at the cases where social media was used to cause people to do harm to their self. In the right hands, computer bots can be used to track individuals where about activity. Same with the cell phone. So far autos are only tracked by the manufacture and or government. But, who's to say their are no loose cannons in either arenas. I know I sound out in left field. But, I spent a big part of my career in IT. Never say never what the right individual can and might be able to accomplish.
I think the important take away is if you are flying something that was not equipped or not capable of RID you are okay from start date until the date they delayed too. but if it is equipped with it or you already registered a RID to your "drone" you are still required to do so. at least that is my understanding... Congress is not going to let this go! It's not for the safety of the public or manned Aircraft. If it was for Airspace safety it would be more like ADSB light, other aircraft, Control towers would be able to see our "Drones" but they cant.
And this is why the older I get, the less credit I give government conspiracies when I hear them. I mean is the federal government even capable of the level of coordination some of these conspiracies would require?😂
See this is the biggest problem and why the FAA is not doing a good job at all in this roll out of remote id. By giving us this date and then turning around and saying oh well now it's going to be pushed back, while its great for the people who haven't been able to get there modules yet, for the people that have shoveled out the hundreds of dollars to get there drones legal are going to look at these rules as a big joke. By the time they do have to comply they are not going to take any of it seriously, and to be honest why should they, they did everything they were supposed to shoveled out a ridiculous amount of money got their drones registered jumped through all the hoops and the FAA can't even keep their word on a date. What if the prices drop dramatically by march which I'm sure they will or they push it back again after March or if my RID device breaks or burns out what then I have already shoveled out a ridiculous amount of money because of a date that the FAA can't even keep their word on, why should I do it again and possibly again. These rules will not be taken seriously by the very people the FAA counting on to take these rules seriously, these rules will never be taken seriously, and this will ultimately end of failing. If they want us to keep are word and comply, they need to do the same.
@JakePickett A lot of what if's in your comment. It simply comes down to this. #1, RID is here. Whether one likes it or not, whether one intends to comply or not, RID is here. #2, because of people like alien drone and others contacting the FAA and explaining the reasoning for extending the deadline and the people at FAA understanding the complexity envolved with getting all uav compliant the extension was granted. Yes you have made the effort to comply. But there is a huge amount of individuals such as myself are waiting for either firmware updates or modules to be delivered. Give it a break.
@@travelingboz0214 Oh god no I will def not comply I just want people who have complied will take a stand and look at all this from a different perspective and see that they are getting screwed by following a rule/law that they are doing what they are supposed to when the people that are implementing this law are not. I personally will never comply with this BS. I would never spend that kind of money on RID are you crazy do you know how much RID modules cost, 😂I actually feel sorry for the people that spent a bunch of money getting ready for RID 😞
@JakePickett-mz7lg Well, I don't think I am crazy as you suggest. And yes, I have looked into the purchase price of different modules to retrofit one of my uav's until I discovered the manufacturer will be coming out with a firmware update to make it RID compliant. Eventually, as time takes it toll on todays fleet of uav's, if people want to keep flying, the new units will be RID compliant. Even if people try to circumvent the rule by building their own, the electronic components needed will contain RID.
@@travelingboz0214 they will have to integrate them into the flight controllers and since most of not all FC's come from China I can guarantee that will not happen. China will have no reason to do that seeing how they don't have RID there. I do build my own drones in fact that's the only drones I have are freestyle and racing drones and couple whoops. If people don't want to comply they will always be able to, unless like you said they are built into the drones, and or they ban all fpv components from over seas. But seeing how 90% of equipment is made over there I can't see that ever happening. Actually I can if people start weponizing drones in mass but in that situation the government will but a ban on drones period. And it will make it illegal for any civilian to own or fly a drone, hopefully that day won't come anytime soon.
Perhaps this is a stupid question, I do not fly very often and my drone is an older one and is registered, do I need to get a remote ID module in March even if I’m not going to fly or can I just wait until I will be flying the drone?
If your drone needs to be registered, or you register your drone for any reason (even if it doesn't need to be), then remote ID is required, regardless of weight. Registration = RID. A video that might help with a lot of RID questions/answers is here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_GkvNlRYtqc.htmlsi=t8MqgRm69h5W9dB1
