Hey everyone,

Some reading first (EASA)

This new legislation is going to become valid in our country. For the next two years, it will be valid side by side with our current one and then it will take over.

I am writing about the drone classification (the drone labels such as C0 or A1) in the "open category". If I understand this correctly, the label has to be issued by the manufacturer (for the model line, not per every drone), so right now, older drones, such as my Mavic Pro Platinum or my still rather new Mavic Mini will still fall into the Ax categories (even though Mini would probably be suited to be a C0 drone).

New drones will probably come labeled directly from the factory, but what about older, still perfectly working drones. Are we going to be stuck in the A categories? Or is there going to be a possibility of retroactively adding a label to these older drones?

<250g drones get an exception and will be allowed to fly in A1 after 2 years.
Even without the new CE marking.
So the mini's should be good.
I just asked about it in a Dutch drone forum.

All the other current DJI drones fall in the open A3 if I'm not mistaken.
Unless DJI finds a way to retrospectively get CE C1 for their <900g
But that is very unlikely to be honest.

There is still a lot 'unknown' so we will have to see how this works out for us.

Montfrooij Posted at 12-9 00:22

Still, Mini should be C0 in my opinion, there is no reason for it not to be (other than bureaucracy)

Evelas Posted at 12-9 00:27
Still, Mini should be C0 in my opinion, there is no reason for it not to be (other than bureaucracy)

They can fly without too much limitations. A1

There was some speculation from Poland that there would are retrospective certification but nothing concrete has come out yet.

Evelas Posted at 12-9 00:27
Still, Mini should be C0 in my opinion, there is no reason for it not to be (other than bureaucracy)

There is no difference in the laws between C0 and A1 legacy