Originally Posted by
ECHO24
@ init4fun. Here's what the FAA has to say about that:
" ... it relies on the individual operator to proactively report their location to a USS."
That refers to a phone app. Same with a module, you have to plug it in or turn it on. The FAA is done with voluntary compliance.
ECHO, agree with your assesment that basically Remote ID will deter otherwise law abiding citizens in some cases from doing something stupid. That said, what makes you think, even after the ruling, that there won't be people with older DRONES bought before RID or who have the ability to build their own drones from parts (It really isn't all that hard) that will purposely fly without the required RID in order to do idiotic things just like this?
The complete and total idiots who want to do things like this will not fly their RID identified drone in most cases.
Don't trust me enough to allow me to retrofit RID into my model because it is the law, but trust me not to fly those models that are not equipped, or not to build a non RID model to do stupid things, or find a way to register an RID with someone else's name, or disable the RID in a sealed equipped model... etc etc etc....