flying a drone over people or crowds or flying your drone at night without
permission from the FAA we're going to talk about how you can change these
rules in the video coming up hi everyone I'm Brett Garamella with BrettGaramella.com
calm and before we get into today's video I just want to announce the winner
from last videos contest his name is Ferdinand he was a top commenter Fernan
just hit me up on social media either on Instagram or Facebook you just look for
my name and you'll find me and I will send you the pgy text and so a couple
days ago DJI the leader in worldwide consumer drones made a notice for drone
pilots out there to comment and make their voices heard for the proposed new
laws and regulations for drone pilots so first off you do have a say the FAA is
required to read each one of the comments and if necessary comment back
and the thing about it is you actually do have a say because there haven't been
a lot of people who make comments especially for flying at night without a
waiver and for flying over people or crowds so currently I just went to the
site and there's only 306 people who commented so only 306 people have
commented about flying at night without a waiver and flying over people I find
that pretty crazy now the deadline is Monday at 11:59 p.m. Eastern Standard
Time so you don't have much time you have this weekend then you have all day
Monday so I urge you to make your comments heard I will leave links in the
description below so it's real easy for you to make the comment just press
comment and write whatever you want to write there's another page for the FAA
and currently only fourteen hundred and seventy-seven people have left comments
this other site is for new regulations on safety and things of that nature okay
so all together both pages with all these new rules and regulations less
than 2000 people have commented which is pretty crazy
because you would think thousands and thousands of people
would want their voices heard especially knowing that the FAA has to read each
one of them and in the past they have done this and laws have changed rules
have changed so if we don't speak up it's kind of sad so if you care about
the future of drones and the way US pilots can use our drones and if you
live in the United States your freedom please leave a comment okay with all
that said one of the rules talked about flying over vehicles that the FAA said
you're not allowed to fly over vehicles and a lot of other drone pilots have
voice their opinion that this is a bad thing but in my opinion I think it
depends on the situation so here's how I view it and I could be wrong but this is
just my opinion okay you could have a different opinion if I'm flying my drone
over a moving car and the drone flies from the sky obviously where it fell
that car is gonna move and it's not gonna hit that car that it was over
however on a street obviously another car is gonna come so if another car
comes it could hit that so it still is a risk for drivers now in sparsely
populated areas I think it's okay if you're out in the mountains the
wilderness the countryside I think it's alright to fly your drone over the road
over highway I don't think it's that much of a risk but in the city
especially a place like Miami where I live people drive crazy so any type of
thing falling from the sky people around here are not good drivers and for me I
think there's a high probability that there is an accident and someone getting
hurt all right around here there's accidents all the time I live near i-95
and it's just constantly accident after accident after accident so I think I'm
in a unique part of the United States where people really Drive horribly I've
lived all over and I gotta say this is one of the worst driving places I know
I'm going off on a kind of a tangent but these rules apply for the entire United
States so I think here in Miami and South Florida it would cause a threat
and in my opinion I hope the FAA keeps this law in cities and just makes it so
outside and sparsely populated areas you're allowed to fly your drone
just like right now you're allowed to fly your drone if you're not driving if
you're like in the passenger seat and a sparsely populated area you're able to
fly your drone so I think this rule should apply in sort of the same way in
a sparsely populated area where there's not a lot of people it's okay but in the
cities especially area like South Florida it poses way too much threat and
I think around here I would have to agree with the FAA law so post your
comments below we don't have much time to make our final comments and I'm still
thinking it over before I write my final comments on the links that I provided
below so we only have a couple days so I urge you to do that soon so that you can
get your opinion out there the other two big rules and regulations that I talked
about earlier in this video flying at night so right now it's
impossible to fly at night legally without a waiver from the FAA and of
course you have to be part 107 certified which I am and I'm sure there's a lot of
people out there who are part 107 certified but it's kind of a hassle and
people like just to fly right away they don't like to go ahead with all these
procedures so this new rule would do away with all that you could just fly at
night without a waiver and from what I've read I think this is a good rule
because there haven't been any accidents or things reported to the FAA at night
so I think statistics have shown that this is a good law so flying at night
the FAA wants you to have lights on your drone that can be seen within three
statute miles I think this is a good thing obviously that's for safety so you
don't hit anything no one hits you I think that's a good law now the FAA is
also proposing that current part 107 drone pilots or commercial pilots take a
separate test or have a separate set of questions that they're going to be asked
to answer about fly a night I think this is also a good thing for safety flying
at night they could also incorporate this into the main part 107 test and
while we're talking about the part 107 test in my opinion I think a lot of it
really isn't that important yeah knowing the airspace is where you can fly when
how to get authorization obviously this is really
for flying but there's so much extraneous information in the test I
don't think it really helps you be a good drone pilot so I think there's
information the fa can add to that test and take some stuff out to make it
helpful you don't have to be a good drone pilot to pass the part 107 test
which doesn't really make sense so for example I could be a phenomenal drone
pilot I could fly racing drones I can know things about the exp the
sensitivity to yaw and all these things that really matter when flying a drone
well versus someone who doesn't have experience by that but they just passed
the test with all this certain information that doesn't really apply to
flying the drone well so that FAA really needs to make the part 107 tests have
questions that are applicable for flying your drone for being a good drone pilot
actually flying the drone alright lastly I want to talk about flying your drone
over people now flying over your drone over people and crowds is something that
people are getting very opinionated over and it does pose a risk especially for
people who are not safe and take the necessary precautions and don't really
know how to fly aren't good drone pilots within these new rules there's three
categories the first categories for drones that are under point 55 pounds
like a DJI tell oh okay category 2 is like up to 11 pounds a category 3 is
around 25 pounds so these are much bigger drones they also talk about how
they're designed and whether they fall from the sky they're gonna injure
someone when they fall okay so you have to read all that I don't want to make
this video super long but just add your comments of what you think should it be
point 55 pounds should be more should that FAA have control over how the
drones are manufactured should people be required to have like parachutes or
cages or protectors so the drone follow the sky would have hurt someone all
right all these are considerations you can leave those comments on FAA site
alright guys so make sure you visit those links and add your comment
remember not a lot of people are commenting so the FAA is gonna read your
comment and it does have quite a bit of influence especially if only a few
hundred people are commenting your your comment carries
much more weight okay so go do that now you only have a couple days left thank
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