Notice how CASA don't seem to have issued any such press release?
The CASA website states 250G drones upward, not all drones. And I take the detail of that article (And all the more or less verbatim copies of it on webistes around the world) with a large grain of salt. Apart from the "Oh S..., they have spotted me" effect of a drone operating doping the bolt with his controller, exactly how do wpeople think that they will be tracked down "Within minutes"? When someone was transmitting repeatedly from a fixed location recently, making fake ATC calls to aircraft, it was days or weeks before they found him. Likewise, how exactly are they going to "electronically scanned for serial numbers" unless these things with POV cameras broadcast their serial number in the video stream.
When CASA identify "Mr Gibson" and confirm he is the source for this, I will start to believe anything beyond the registration scheme that CASA have actually publicesed as to be put in place. Like many good urban myths, "Mr Gibson" does seem to exist and does seem to work for CASA, funny enough he does not seem to have spoken up yet.
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