Might? 
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I am more concerned why @SparkyFPV isn’t mentioned on the username change topic 
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After a breach disclosed today, there was a good discussion with some researchers on why the personal information that exchanges are forced to collect on their customers in the name of protection, lead to the impossible task of the company having to secure that data, in tern endangering users.
Feels poignant when assessing particularly network based remote ID.
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The good news on categories doesn’t outweigh the bad about remote ID. As said on the video, people who intend to disobey the law will ignore or find ways round it, which is why there are still guns on the streets. People who would play nicely anyway are being unfairly penalised. Leave the current system alone, I’d say, rather than bring in all this and make small drones carry weight they weren’t designed for. Is all my kit going to be illegal in 2028 without it? Seems so. Harmony with EU would at least mean the manufacturers dont have to turn out specialist versions for the UK market. What if every country did that? Crazy. It’s going to kill small hobby droning.
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Apparently there will be new classification A1 A2 A3 and drones upto 900grams can fly in A1
and drone will have UKC1 designations etc
There will need t be remote ID etc adding weight to my Mini 4k.. I’m not sure if my present drone will go into the sub 900grms category or still be classed as it is and with the new weight loading.. would go over it. Not keen on remote ID with the 'supposed ’ cloning worries but need to sort the weight thing in advance.
Anyone sussed this out?
ps a search not reveal much on the laatest CAA update
Moved your post to this thread on the subject. 
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Why would it add weight 
PS It’s a Mini 4K not Mini 4
apparently there will need to be some gadget fitted to broadcast the ID.. (some say 8 -12 grams)
Top hit on Google is this very thread
SEO is strong on this one
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Watch the video in the first post of this thread 
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i did watch this and other videos and still can’t see if My Mini 4K will be classed as UKC1 or under 900grm A1 or still as a sub 250grm drone with existing rules. I maybe being a bit thick here.
No, it won’t be. UK class marks don’t exist yet, meaning all all current drones are legacy drones with regards to the new UK-specific class marks.
The new UK class marks will only apply to drones which are manufactured and produced after 1st Jan 2026.
History tells us that retrospective class marking has been a bit hit and miss in other countries, I doubt the UK CAA will have much appetite to support it 
Not at all, much like everything CAA do, this too is ridiculously overcomplicated 
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Will DJI enable the Mini4 Pro RID in firmware without having to buy the larger battery (not even avilable in the UK!) to do so?
Or will it be a case of adding a RID board and battery to a drone that already has RID and a battery but can’t be used if you dont buy their larger battery?..
Cheers - Rob
It’s already on the drone but geo locked
DJI will just unlock it with an over the air patch
It’s locked by needing to use the Plus battery - nothing to do with location. So the question remains, will DJI relent and un-cripple remote ID with the normal UK supplied battery by a firmware update before 1st Jan 2026? I guess from a business point of view, they could save that for the Mini5 and resign Mini4’s in the UK as doorstops unless you rig up a third party Remote ID velcro’d onto the top.
Cheers - Rob.
I have a DJI Min 3 Pro and can enable RID by GPS spoofing irrelevant of the plus battery or not
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Anyone else getting de ja vu on this job role at CAA? 
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Continuing a point @D0c.Col raised in another thread:
The EASA regs don’t, and probably never will, recognise any UK class marks.
A UK-only class marked drone will be a legacy drone in Europe
Unless the drone has for example both a C1 and a UK1 label on it. But can we see drone manufacturers around the world doing that? Especially given the way DJI hard-lock drones in to an existing EU class number with no way of ever changing it, who knows 
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You can request a reclassification via DJI Fly to change the Mini 4 Pro from C0 to C1 so it’s not hard locked.
In a perfect world you would, in the future, be able to request a UK/C class label from DJI but that seems too sensible. 
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