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[kvetner]

@ianinlondon

Just some info on why no C Classification would be a good thing (as I’m still getting comments hoping it will be classified…)

Someone expressed the same view about why we should not desperately want a C0 drone just 18 days ago:

C1 drone mark seen in the wild!

I think I’ve said this in the past but I can’t see any immediate benefit to class-marking for users of sub-250g drones. Under Article 21 of the regs, we can fly legacy sub-250g drones in Open subcategory A1 forever (except for privately-built drones). There’s a question about whether “flying weight” and “maximum take-off mass” are the same, but that’s the only wrinkle. For the C0 class, the drone must be sub-250g, but also must have a maximum flight speed limited to 19m/s, and must be designed …