Most of them praise the weight of the quadrocopter, which allows you not to put it on record
(which in the same articles is often exposed as a significant problem). And this is true, according to the recently enacted UAV accounting rules, drones easier than 250 do not need to be registered. But is this such a big plus? After all, you can register a drone in 20 minutes if you have an envelope for letters and a printer. Compared with the need to obtain permits for each flight is a trifle. So it’s not such a good new drone? Let's figure it out.
To date, for amateur flight on UAVs weighing up to 30 kg, two permissions are required: permission from the local administration (if the flight is over a settlement) and permission to use airspace (IWP) from air traffic control authorities. And this is regardless of weight. However, at the moment, amendments to the Rules for the use of the airspace of the Russian Federation are being considered , which significantly change the UAV flight rules .
Firstly, there is a subparagraph b of paragraph 2 in the amendments:
b) paragraph 49, after the words “specified cities”, be supplemented with the words “, with the exception of unmanned aircraft with a maximum take-off weight of less than 0.25 kg”;
Which eliminates the need to obtain permission to fly within the boundaries of a settlement from local authorities for UAVs weighing less than 0.25 kg. And this is a significant plus. And the point is not that now you have to get permission in the administration, but that only in a few cities there is a procedure for obtaining permission to fly, and first you will have to force the administration of your village to deal with this procedure.
Secondly, there is paragraph 3, which concerns already UAVs weighing up to 30 kg:
52. The use of airspace by an unmanned aircraft in Class A, C and G airspace is carried out through the establishment of temporary and local regimes, as well as short-term restrictions for the benefit of airspace users organizing flights of unmanned aircraft based on the aircraft’s flight plan and permission to the use of airspace, with the exception of visual flights by unmanned aircraft within the line of sight, is carried out x unmanned aircraft with a maximum take-off weight of up to 30 kg during daylight hours at altitudes of less than 150 meters from the earth or water surface outside the control zones of civil aviation airports, areas of state and experimental aviation aerodromes (heliports), restricted areas, restricted flight areas, special zones, airspace above the places of security events, public events and official sporting events, as well as at a distance of at least 5 km from control points uncontrolled airdromes and landing sites ...
Which abolishes the need to obtain permission for IVP in the cases listed in the paragraph. I foresee a lot of comments about the number of restrictions and share them, nevertheless, this is a significant relaxation of the existing flight rules.
In the form of a flowchart, it will look like this.
As a result, we have: in the case of adoption of a change in the rules of the airspace of the Russian Federation, the DJI Mavic Mini will be a drone, for flights of which you either do not need to get permission at all, or you need to get only permission for the airspace.
I am the author of the resource “We fly according to the law”. If the article seems interesting to readers, then in the following we will consider in detail the limitations of paragraph 52 of the new rules of the IVP.