If you didn't like this video you can exercise your "thumbs-down" rights by liking this comment. Even haters deserve to be heard! (are you listening RU-vid?)
I loved your video Bruce 👌...(not too keen on the subject matter though !)...so I gave this comment a thumbs down...now I'm more confused than CASA has already forced me to be...😢
Fly through sunset into night off the coast with your inav wing for a killer timelapse on your GoPro? DANGEROUS! $11,100!! - Drive 54kmph through a 15kmph school pickup zone? $643 mate. Hell, drive 140kmph through a residential 30kmph shared pedestrian zone next to a school? $1,286 and a six month license suspension. But shit, you flew your tinyhawk II outside in your yard through goggles? $11,100 you maniac!!!
Lmao, that's the insanity we are facing these days. And I am willing to bet other countries will follow this "pristine" example of how to enforce drone "safety".
Thanks for such an educative and hilarious video Bruce. Lawyers are equally competent here in the antipodes (Spain), I just hope they never learn about this tax the drones idea!!
I'm not going to register (come and get me! 🇬🇧) but was looking at the BMFA & FPVUK sites today. Turns out the BMFA has removed the half yearly & £10 for two months options whilst also raising the membership fee by 5%. And FPVUK now has clarification from the CAA that having a camera on a sub 250g model for navigation only reasons *does not* require registration! And one of the club's near me now appears to have a 'don't ask, don't tell' policy re: CAA registration. I wonder why. 😏
Then they define every RC aircraft as a drone, correct 🤔 a night radiant and a night vapor a drone but they're made to fly at night 😳what's up with that 😂
I often fly a night Radian and a HK Flybeam (not at the same time!) in total darkness! Why, because there are no flamin' quadcopters to crash into you!
When the laws are unjust it becomes a duty to reject and/or disobey them. I will NOT register my model aircraft nor will I pay anything for enjoying my hobby. I'll continue to exercise common sense and fly safely when I'm around people or property.
Become a member of the MAAA and as long as you have a spotter you are exempt from the no FPV rule and covered under there insurance. It sucks but it at least gives you something to show the cops when they show up and avoid the hassle.
@@auzzieworker5183 Yep, half the people here don't even know how far 1.5m is for coofid distancing rules, not to mention 30m for safe use of indication while driving...sadly I'm sure many were taught with a fisherman's rule, what hope would a CASA compliant drongo have ?
Actually CASR part 101 disagrees with CASA completely. 101.400 Operation of model aircraft outside approved areas (1) A person may operate a model aircraft outside an approved area above 400 feet AGL only if he or she: (a) keeps it in sight; and (b) keeps it clear of populous areas. If you follow the above you can fly above 400ft AGL
✌🏻😎🏴I fly when I want and where I want. I’ve never hurt anyone or anything while operating ANY radio controlled vehicle so I will continue to fly when I want & where I want. If DJI can’t stop me I don’t see how anyone else could.
I hope you're not planning on flying on a commercial flight into Australia anytime because you'll be first in line for a cavity check at the airport. 😱
Bruce, We had a fireworks display in town the other night and I watched a drone flying over the fireworks and the crowd and back home and landed and guess what nobody got hurt and he found his way home to land, most likely there could have been more people injured from the fireworks then drone CASA idiots. Wayne Australia.
And you will probably find that he was there on request of the council, or whomever organised the show, so that they can put up some video after the event.
Wonderful video Bruce I feel so sorry for Australians with this. Especially for Stew at AV features, it's discussing what's happening. Thanks again for the video and information.
Q1. True, Wing delivery can hover over people below 30ft. Q4 A, Wing delivery can fly without VLOS and can fly 10klm radius Q6 true. Wing delivery can operate more the 8-12 drones at anytime. Q12. False, Wing delivery can break all CASA regulations. Great vid Bruce, Wing Delivery service is owned by Alphabet Inc. which is owned by Google and have implemented their UTM ( Unmanned Transit Management) services in Australia
And so the plot thickens. Because a small Mobula 6 being flown FPV is far more dangerous than a parcel delivering waypoint following "hauler" drone, because it's made by Google.
May I suggest that the Aussies get together and lease their below 120 meter property rights to CASA. A flat annual fee per cubic meters would be charged to CASA and a toll by the weight of the craft per flight, so a Cessna 172 may only cost $100 to cross your property while a Cessna 182 might be $150. Since they will all have remote ID devices it will be easy to correctly charge them the appropriate toll. It is, after all your property. Just a suggestion.😁
Bruce, go fly your mini quad FPV, without a spotter, round your own back yard remaining under fence top level, in the fog, at night!!! I mean breaking that many rules, I'm pretty sure you'll kill half your town doing it! :D
Yep this is Australia Litigate escalate incarcerate and yes a few people have been fined allot and our judges are famously arrogant and over worked avoiding there own legal battles.
@MrLunithy you left out the word that starts with "M" and ends with "bate" and perfectly describes CASA in the colloquial form which starts with "W" and ends in "ANKERS"
it must be getting close Christmas, with CASA hitting my FB news feed with their "Know Your Drone" every day, i'm wondering if their knowledge test is supposed to appeal to over 16s or preschool, just looking at FB now CSASs latest post has 65 likes go figure who are these "drones".
I wonder when they are going to bring out regulations for balls. Footballs, cricket balls, golf balls, etc. Those things really hurt, plus they break windows. They fly through the air so are they aircraft? There's also no control over them once they have launched.
@@rsutherland106 Golf balls are my biggest fear. I've seen a gold ball go through a car's side window and out the window on the other side. Imagine that smacking someone in the head! I had my share of bruises from my short time at playing cricket at school. I think I'd rather take my chances with a hobby drone.
I honestly don't understand CASA's aversion to FPV... It's like as if it doesn't exist to them... It's not like it's soooo much safer when you can actually SEE where you are/going! I'd be willing to bet there's been an order of magnitude more drone-people collisions from LOS flying vs FPV... Ah well just another bunch of stupid rules that won't get followed...
Just imagine how unsafe instrument rated flying is? You can't see a damn thing, and all you have to guide you are some instruments that are KNOWN to fail if they get water into things like pitot tubes. Yet CASA will happily let people fly in these planes, risking life and limb, yet demand we register and pay to remote fly models with no known fatal injuries because of how dangerous they believe RC models must be. (And besides, it might be a good source of cold hard cash!!)
Bruce, all I can say is that if stupid people (which usually includes bureaucrats) flew we wouldn't be able to see the skies. 🙄 Anyway, stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
@aussieaeromodeler yep and into the bin...except for that, what appears to be a multi tip screwdriver...looks pretty cool even though I already got one.
I need you to do my tax return for me. :D $11000 + GST (10%) those thieves at the Tax Department believe should be $12100! ;) Perhaps they meant $10000 + GST + the current daily inflation rate. :)
@@kjenkin53 Same here Keith! Got to get a laugh out of life somehow - the way things are going downhill lately. ;-) Hoping you and yours have a great Festive Season! :-)
@@loc4725 Who Are You Asking Me or Bruce? 🤣 He's Just A Little Older Than Me, He's In Better Health Than Me, He Has A Real Home, Bathroom, Normal Bed, A YOUNGER WIFE To Sleep With & On + Cook, Clean & Help Him, Thus He Has Much More Energy & Gumption Than Me. He Also Has Many Friends + Family, Where As I Have No-One...
So no multiple drone flights. How will Amazon deliver if only one drone at once can fly from same computer also no swarm display drone anymore ? Back to ozone destroying firework displays I guess. And why they keep showing flying over water 💦 that’s not good for drones
Wing is already flying hundreds of drones at the same time autonomously here in Australia. The difference is they paid a lot money to get the approval.
CASA's video is misleading to people who haven't read CASA's rules (Part 101). They show a multi-rotor flying around. So going by their logic I can fly my planes around anywhere and whenever I like. My understanding it is a (UAV) Unmanned Aerial Vehicle. The word Drone should be not be used, it is a model plane, model helicopter or a model multi-rotor. So is the test for multi-rotors only?
The $100 is probably the GST, and hey the lens cloth would be handy for better night visibility when flying FPV..., good work Bruce, love the wrong answer but the correct result...HHhhmmmm
I fly my camera drones all the time at night but not over 20 ft in the air sometimes it may be up to 40 but and then I stay in a certain range because my flying field is kind of small
@@jamesellis5445 LOL! You so funny. Um, nosir, The FAA are the airspace cops, us dummies started this foolishness with wreckless abandon. Meaning some clowns, somewhere in Merica invaded TCC airspace with their "toys" and caused issues with the safety of passengers, crew and anybody on the ground. So, ah, you are wrong, cause and effect, bro. And now we all are paying for some fool's stupidity and sins. I'm sure Chinstrailia
@@free-birdrocker8809 .....whoosh.....only other thing to add is that to assume makes an ASS out of U and ME...g'day sir. Oh I forgot one more thing.... "Chinstralia" says, look whose got the socialist gubberment.
Wow. Got one wrong. You can't fly anywhere outside without permission/permit?? They need a google screen shot of the location??? I'll just send them a screen shot of Western Australia and tell 'em I won't fly within 30m of people, houses, no higher than 120m ect. That should satisfy those requirements.
I feel you are wrong about the quiz - conceptually, anyway. It seems to me that anything that encourages someone to learn is a good thing, and to achieve that it needs to be done in a pretty simple way, so there is a risk of being patronising. Of course you know all the answers - you are very experienced. But a kid starting out on this is not, and I would hazard a guess that a fair proportion of 'incidents' (and let's be honest, there have been some) are caused not by people who are evil and antisocial, but simply people, largely beginners, who do not know what they are doing or what the risks are. Ie people who would benefit from guidance. So in principle, I think an inclusive test that brings people in, makes them feel part of a community, and educates them, is a good thing. Where it falls flat however is on silly questions. I didn't think the two flying at night ones were necessarily that, because if that test is anything like the ones we have, there are a pool of questions a subset of which might come up in any order. But the FPV one was especially crass. It contradicts their own rules. Someone reading that might think "I though FPV was OK, now this says it isn't, I give up - this is rubbish, I'll go and do what I want anyway". Ie it becomes actively counterproductive. So, basically, conceptually an education test, friendly and easily accessible, is a good thing. But they'd better get the questions and answers right.
I never knew that you could fly two drones at the same time off of one transmitter. Is that even possible 🤔 I like to figure out how to do that with my UMX radian and tape the wings together
they have the new drones that they used in the olimpics a few years back its run by a computer but tech. flying more than one drone at a time and you can set one drone up to hover in place as a fixed cam and zoom around in its view with another not saying its smart but can be safely done in the right conditions
Good to know our (Australians) tax payers money is going to good causes to improve safety for everyone. It's time the carnage of drone related injuries and death, be solved once and for all! Those dangerous drone pilots are probably vax deniers too * Karen concerned face *
If that is the CASA RC Pilot's test it still makes a lot more sense than the idiotic Transport Canada test that asked many technical questions pertaining to Manned Aircraft Pilots and had absolutely nothing to do with RC Aircraft. If Transport Canada had asked those CASA questions I would have aced the test rather than just skimming by.
Return to home will only work if the drone could get the location before flight. The police drone story the other day went "home" 5 miles away from where it started since the GPS was not found before the takeoff. CASA sure are not informed and are a bunch of (explitives here).
Hmm! Same format as UK but the UK taxes the operator not the drones because the CAA is smart enough to know that humans are already recorded hence much easier and cheaper to trace. The rules are also somewhat different while the drones, people, towns etc are much the same so, if there is a threat, it should be the same in both places; one of them must be wrong, or could it be both? There are TV competition adverts that give the viewer a minute or so to find the hidden name in a grid of letters. The name is as well hidden as a dayglo B747 during take off unlike the premium aspect of the telephone number to be called if you are daft enough to play. The drone regulating INDUSTRY does not seem to recognise that the more they say the less credible the safety motive looks. Instead the Canberra Ned Kelly image gets polished.
It’s good to know that I can take off within 5.5kilometres of an airport with my DJI mini 2 lol. Next time I’m near an airport I’ll take it off and if I get harassed by airport staff, I’ll just tell them to read the rules so that they don’t make fools of themselves lol.
If people can't fly drones in night. Then no flying should be allowed in night. That means even the commercial planes. Let see if any Airline would stop flying night time.
I have to say we too in NZ are drowning in regulation that is so unnecessary! Keep up the good work I think they are to thick (regulators) to understand sarcasm!
i was about to write a comment somethings like "come on cut them some slack for trying" but then you get to the merch ... never mind, just burn them to the gound .. haha
Wait youc ant fly 2 droens at once, so what about fully autonomous ones, where its gps located and such. owo. i wanna goto a park and fly 2 tiny woops, 1 in each hand
I liked rule 10 as I am sure I read somewhere that a Police force hit their own helicopter with their own drone. In fact I think it got a mention in one of your videos. I would have got the fine one wrong too as I thought it was a trick question because the real answer would be a nice round number.
YOu can apply for permission to fly FPV outdoors, you just have to have airial pictures of location, GPS location, written permission from land owner, times etc and pay a fee ow and show proof you have the experience to fly FPV and have a spotter and insurance its f***ing rediculous
Be fair mate... look at how many people have died as a result of recreational drone users flying FPV in Australia. Oh... well... look at how many people have died as a result of recreational drone users flying FPV elsewhere in the world.... um, er, :-)
Have you seen Tucker Gott's video when they went to a horseshoe bend in a river a thousand feet deep. Two powered paramotors almost collided. They came within feet of each other. They both would have died and drowned in the water
Remember, you haven't broken any law until a judge says so. Don't do dumb things and the drone fear mongers are powerless. Government agents are too bloody lazy to initiate legal action unless provoked. The main problem is manned aviation, ie. helicopter owners and pilots, are afraid of losing the lucrative aerial photography and survey contracts that various agencies do regularly. Imagine a 300 dollar drone doing the same surveillance or aerial survey that a 2 million dollar helicopter!
I believe (but I may be wrong) that CASA has the right to issue summary fines which do not require the intervention of the courts. You would have the right to challenge those fines in a court but unless you do they are considered to be just and due for payment.
@@xjet There needs to be an organization in place to support fighting every case and make it more difficult for the lobbyist regimes to get these laws passed
All knowledge is great to learn and express..BUT when the entities demanding drone knowledge when they themselves have none is utter rubbish. ( Yes, that means you FAA ) Even entities here in the US who gave the "TRUST" test and have vids and organizations claiming "drone knowledge" have little knowledge of the REAL facts and truth, but have chosen to bury their heads and interest up the FAA's cavern of ignorance and agree and side with said ignorant entity, well that is really all that needs said.
I let my wife, with 0 hours flight experience, pick the answers when I did my TRUST test, didn't miss a single question. Shh, don't tell the FAA. 😂 (Edited for bad autocorrect)
Received an email from CASA, "Have your say on proposed changes to drone regulations". CASA believes they can regulate the flying of drones indoors, as one of the topics under review is " deregulating indoor operations". If I had your email I could forward it to you
I'm on the same mailing list... got that email and the call to submit. I'll be doing a video on that in the near future and encouraging folk to have their say.
@@xjet I've put mine in, somehow tho I don't think it will make any difference, CASA like the majority of government dept's in Australia only do this to make themselves feel good.
My Dear Bruce, OH NO ! Do you know what this means for the rest of "The World".? It means more of those "Ozzies" leaving that small island. The UK needs to zip up our drone rules to stop the inevitable swarm of people who raise their tone of voice at the end of every sentenCE.
@@droningwesternaustralia dont know if wiper water contains something poisoning. radiator water contains anti-freeze ethylene glycol . that will kill you for sure
I saw you fly in the fog. You were having problems seeing as well. There was water condensing on the lens as well as the fog ahead of it. Some people don't initialize themselves with their surroundings before they fly in limited visibility
