This week in drone news: The FAA has snuck network Remote ID into the norm by approving a bid for a company to download local Remote ID information and broadcast it on a nationwide network. The FAA has approved the first community-based organization (AMA). A study published by Aloft shows LAANC compliance is low, finally all the Pilot Institute courses are on sale! Go check it out!

00:00 Introduction
00:15 FAA Network Remote ID
02:04 First Approved CBO
03:49 LAANC Compliance is Low according to an Aloft Study
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In this week’s drone news update, the FAA is sneaking network remote ID back, first approved CBO (and a warning), LAANC providers say LAANC compliance is low and our courses are… on sale…
Your first story this week is that network remote ID is back…
Iconcept, network remote ID transmits remote ID information to the internet or cloud where is can be mass distributed via what the FAA calls “UAS Service Suppliers”. proposed as a Remote ID solution by the FAA but later taken down in the final ruling after massive pushback from the community in the form of 53,000 comments. The FAA instead settled on broadcast remote ID which only send the Remote ID signal locally. The network version would have required each drone to have some sort of network connection, which wasn’t going to be free…
This week, a contract was awarded to a company called Anra Technologies to demonstrate the ability to collect, aggregate, and retransmit broadcast remote ID message and convert it into… you guessed it… network Remote ID.
The idea behind this concept is to allow Remote ID to be used as a part of the Unmanned Traffic Management or UTM. Under UTM, Remote ID could be used to share the location of all drones in a specific area, and allow for traffic separation. This is a great concept as long as… the data “collected and aggregated” is not used to create paid highways in the sky, as some companies that I won’t name have been wanting to do. Airspace access must remain free. Please let me know in the comments what you think about this.
The second story this week is also a big one. AMA announced that they are the first approved FAA community Based Organization or CBO.
A few weeks ago, the FAA finally released guidelines that candidate for CBOs need to follow. We also made a video highlighting the need to keep CBO guidelines simple and concise, link up here.
Sadly, the AMA guidelines are anything but that. The main document is 12 pages long. But worse, it links to over a dozen other documents, including 4 separate documents for FPV flying (outdoors AND indoors) and another 6-page document highlighting see and avoid guidance. Talk about concise.
If you are going to use the AMA for your safety guidelines, we recommend you read ALL the documents and make sure you are familiar with them. You are liable BY LAW to follow those guidelines.
For example, when flying FPV, if your drone is less than 2 pounds, you should maintain a minimum separation of 10 feet from pilots/helpers, and 25 feet from spectators, and 50 feet from vehicles/structures. I hope I didn’t make you spit your morning beverage.
A final note about this story, the AMA guidelines are not easily accessible on their website. Our team had to dig to find them via a google search. Remember the FAA was clear that you DON’t need to pay any membership fees to fly under the rules of ANY CBOs.
Let us know what you think in the comments.
Your third story this week is also regarding USS. Aloft said in a study that only 20%-30% of flights that occur in controlled airspace have LAANC authorization.For this study, Aloft looked at two airports, Dulles (VA) and Harry Reid (NV). According to the article on DroneXL, the compliance number is likely so low due to DJI dropping out of the LAANC program due to security concerns. .