Flying in France - Registration & Exam for leisure flights - Air Space Map

I reckon all 4.

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Man! Deffo 2. Then maybe 4?

YESSSSSS all 4 Thankyou!!! :sweat_smile: :rofl: :joy:

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Thanks to everyone

specially kvetner!!!

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Lol how on earth did you get the rest correct! Glad I’m not French. And not just for the drone license.

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its a very clever test, you HAVE to watch about 20 videos, then you have to pass a training exam, based on the videos
then and only then can you take the test!

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Moved your post, and the responses, over to this thread. Might be useful for others.

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I presume there’s a cost?

No completely free, Far better and more comprehensive than the UK one
I have a French drone reg number and Certificate to fly
All free!
Its with having a go to see how you do, you need your drone serial number

https://fox-alphatango.aviation-civile.gouv.fr

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Did the training very well ā€˜put togetherā€˜ I thought better that their cars :joy:

Took the test for fun :crazy_face: have to say I struggled a bit, my impatience allowed me to be tripped up a number of times when not reading the wording correctly and couldn’t get the insurance one until I delved into the tool box section :speak_no_evil: didn’t like you couldn’t review the actual questions you got wrong just tells you Q - number Did pass eventually I got in the frame of mind ā€˜I won’t be beaten’ got my cert downloaded

Good fun though I feel like I’m more qualified to fly there than in this country now! Certainly understand there ā€˜present rules’ better than ours guess EUSA will change things for them too in the near future

Just need a passport and a free holiday win of a competition now :rofl: didn’t register my bird as that’s never going to happen

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Had to do that French Certification last year, got caught out on 3 attempts, but got it on the forth.

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I struggled with that one as well - so thanks. Not quite sure how I go about ā€œletting the people nearby know when an unmanned aircraft is equipped with a cameraā€ - perhaps I should pack a loud hailer or something!

I enjoyed the videos - some of the animations are quite funny!

Going to need a bigger drone - at this rate my Mavic is going to resemble one of those motorhomes with ā€œI’ve been toā€ flags and pennants stuck all over the windows!

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Further information re the new regulations in France for drone Remote ID:

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Thanks for this info, I’ve just done both the UK and French test (took 3 goes at the French one as I couldn’t read the text in the videos) even though I have a Mini I figured as well to have something to show in France just in case some official shows unwanted interest.

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Hoping to tour some of the beaches on the north coast and then maybe 2 or 3 days inland. Just to get away with the bike.

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That DJI link is for drones over 800g so do I not actually need to do anything for going to France?

well presented that as I live in France and found this out the same way as you did. However when I did it it was in French only so to be able to do it in English is a plus for sure. I passed the second time as the first one I messed up completely with my translation.

can we use your address for our Opertor ID’s ? :slight_smile:

just did this… interesting exam …

tried it 3 times kept getting 1 or 2 things wrong … got fed up trying to work out what i had selected so i screen recorded my test to make sure i knew what i’d really got wrong … cheating ? yes but wouldnt bloody have to do it if Brexit hadn’t happened. :wink:

I live in the UK, I have CAA flyerid, operator id, and an A2 CofC, none of which I think is relevant, and a Mini2. I’d like to fly the Mini2 under the Open A1 category on my camping trip in France. I don’t have any specific UK liability insurance, but could get some. I’ll only be wanting want to fly away from people, vessesls, structures.

I see a couple of threads on here from early last year that seem to say I need to

  1. Register in the 1st EU country (France) - How and where?
  2. Follow this course LZ and get a certificate.

But then some websites that say I don’t. Any views on what’s needed?

I don’t need to take the drone with me, but it would be nice to!

Cheers