Finally a qualification is coming which is ideal for the hobbyist drone flyer
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today we're going to be talking about a new drone qualification which will allow
hobbyist or frankly any drone flier to eventually fly your class to drone
within three meters of people and buildings so by now you're probably
aware that drone regulations across the UK and the EU are due to change this
year in pretty dramatic ways from July the first 2020 the CAA will be adopting
the new ietter regulations bring in the UK in line with the rest of europe if
you're not aware of this there's a link in the description to our EU drone laws
playlist which will give you more background on what's happening okay
back to today's video and we are being joined by Matt Williams of the YouTube
channel mr. mpw there was a former military helicopter instructor who now
runs a drone training company matt is of course expert in this in the new
regulations coming out at his company UAV hub formerly known as fly Icarus
will be offering a range of courses to get you ready for the new regs whether
you're a hobbyist or a commercial operator to find out what it is and how
it will help the hobbyist flyer let's get into that chat I had with Matt
Williams of mr. MP Japanese so what is the a - CFC in a nutshell yes the ATC FC
is the a2 certificate of competency and it's going to be really a small
condensed down training course from what the permission for commercial operation
is that everyone is traditionally thinking of at the moment as the drone
qualification it's kind of a halfway house so you've got the de maras the
registration scheme at the bottom which is like the base competency then the
next step up is the a - CFC and then you've got the G VC which will sit above
that and the GDC is going to be very much like the PFC oh and the OSC if
you're then looking at the a to C or C in isolation it's a level of competency
and training which is going to allow you to effectively get to within like come
inside that 150 meter or 150 meter shield which pops on automatically
if you operate in the open category and that's
the way I think people need to sort of thinking about this isn't the message
that we're trying to get across is this you can pretty much fly anything now in
the a3 category a hundred and fifty meters away from stuff and people it's
when you want to get inside that distance that you leave some kind of
qualification excellent if you want to fly small drones right lots of you know
recreational users and hobbyist users are flying at the moments and you want
to get closer to people and closer to things a to see if C is the baseline
certificate that allows you to do that is the term under your control being
dropped or can you can you automatically get closer anyway without the htc of C
if you have permission yeah so if you've if you've got permission and you are
controlling the building if you control in people then yes it's uninvolved
people is third okay yes it is now so they've dropped the control side of
things because there's no definition of how you could confess yes but what they
have then done is said involve people uninvolved people there's a definition
of each now as a hobbyist will I be able to fly for money with the CA to CFC
alone yeah and actually you don't even need the A to C of C to make money now
so again this is one of those other concepts that like the open category
anyone can fly pretty much anything the a3 150 meters away so that thing that as
the far from people that's kind of cool you knows you don't need now any
certification apart from the damaras to be able to make money do you expect the
existing consumer drones to gain see markings or gives it more likely they're
going to be phased out because of course that there is we have got the period up
until 2022 it's a really difficult question to answer to the most and we
and it is one that we're getting all the time at the moment we've reached out to
DJI and we have spoken to unique about this we've not heard anything back from
DJI yet and I don't expect you to be quite honest I think commercially
they're quite sensitive in that respect and unique have given us a little bit of
a hint of of what they're doing I think the long and the short of what we've got
out the silence from DGI and the words we
have from unique is that I think we're unlikely to see the manufacturers rush
to certify the current lineup of drones it's going to be an expensive process
for them probably to do that it will require firmware and probably small
hardware updates value-wise are you expecting this
qualification to be a cheaper qualification than the PFC oh we're
first in the queue to do the audit with the CAA so make sure that you know at
the time recording this we will have done it in two weeks time the CAA we're
kind of mind-blowing I think when we call them in December a week after the
announcement said can you come and order as we've got everything ready in the way
that's look because of that we are moving forwards and what we're doing is
the a to see if C is going to be a very very cost effective qualification
because we want people and this is the way we've always done things we want
people to be safe operators because that's better for the longevity of the
industry where do you see the mister mpw and and your business going in the
future she has an interesting one a sorry I mean we only started the the mr.
CREB you do what you think nine months ago I think we set the
channel up and we only started posting full-time kind of five months ago and
that the growth has been absolutely phenomenal and the you know in general
the comments that been coming in a bit great I've even lost a lot of the haters
with me wave my arms around as well now I get that too you don't worry so I
think for us you know we set it up to help people understand what was going on
at the time and obviously the damaras came in the regulations are all changing
so we're just trying to help as many people as we can the big one for us is
that the channel itself although it's drone centric at the moment because
that's what we do aviation is my life it's my passion really as teaching
people in aviation is what I did in the military it's that's where I'm at and my
aspiration is that we take the company eventually to not do it just drone stuff
but doing all flight training for full-size aircraft so kind of airline
licenses so you know find schools in Florida in Arizona in places like that
that's the aspiration and work well on the path to get in
there so there we have it the A to C of C course will allow you to
fly your existing drone within 50 meters down from 150 meters the standard de
maras scheme allows when the new raft of drones are released to comply with the
new drone classes structure you'll also be able to fly as close as 30 meters all
the way down to 3 meters when engaging the low-speed mode this will open up a
greater world of possibilities to the hobbyist flyer including allowing them
to make money but more importantly for me as a hobbyist flyer it will allow me
to fly in many more places that will be possible under the standard de maras
scheme stay tuned to geeks viola for more on this I will be taking the A to C
of C course myself as soon as it becomes available and I'll be bringing you along
for that journey in a video series to show you just how useful the new a 2 C
f/c can be thank you to Matt Williams and mr. npw for joining us today and
helping us to understand what this new qualification is the mr. MPW youtube
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