And therein lies the difference Cars, boats, motorcycles, canoes, trailer, camper, etc are state, not federally registered.A wise registration regulations should allow local/state peace officers and public officials to be able to request UAS registration. In the same context of a car, boat, motor cycle, canoes, trailer, camper. If your in the air you better be registered. Home made or OEM. Hopefully this won't lead to the over regulation, taxation and Fed control conspiracy theory rants.
It will help a few people to think before they fly.
Oh yea - It's a AIRCRAFT and none of the other are capable of entering the NAS. If one did get one of those fore-mention crafts into the airspace you would surely have several federal agents at your door with a lot more then a request to get it registered. It would be like "buba NO I didn't drop the soap".And therein lies the difference Cars, boats, motorcycles, canoes, trailer, camper, etc are state, not federally registered.
LOL! Yep..Oh yea - It's a AIRCRAFT and none of the other are capable of entering the NAS. If one did get one of those fore-mention crafts into the airspace you would surely have several federal agents at your door with a lot more then a request to get it registered. It would be like "buba NO I didn't drop the soap".
we won't be getting an increase in our social securety this year.
so what else is new?
scenario #2I think it's a good idea but I don't think they're are going to be able to put in place a system that prevents someone from buying a drone until they register it. Plus, many people build their own. I believe what's going to happen is you're going to buy a drone and when you open the box you're going to see an insert that says you're required by DOT to register your drone and here's the URL. From there it's up to you whether you register or not and then the burden is put on our local law enforcement agencies to enforce the rules when there's an incident. And for that matter the only way they are going to be able to identify the drone to match to an operator is if they can actually get there hands on it, which, in most cases will only happen if there is an incident and the drone crashes.
So is it going to prevent someone with malicious intent from getting a drone? Of course not. But is it going to make little Johnny think twice before he sends his drone up into the flight path of a plane? Yes, definitely. But it will be interesting to see what they come up with and how successful they are in rolling it out.
Also, I think once law enforcement is required to respond to "incidents" it's going to open up a can of worms. Your neighbor (someone like nexxypoo) is going to falsely report you for whatever nefarious reason and the police are going to complain they are using up too many resources to respond to unverifiable incidents. Just my two cents...
I agree on all accounts.I think it will take a while as well and the registration form inside the box is the logical place to start.
As far as building your own they pretty much require a flight computer to fly and eventually I bet the registration becomes tied to that. A Pixhawk will have a "VIN" and every other flavor out there will too.
Just my guess.
No way they can make this happen before Christmas in my opinion.
Agreed... Transponders are coming. It is just a matter of when..scenario #2
Little Johnny has been bad, he's been doing thing's with that drone that is illegal, flying near a airport, flying above 400Ft ECT...
Complaints start coming in, Officer ask, describe the Drone, "well it was white & going fast!"
Johnny get away until it crashes or someone see the tail numbers.
This isn't going to help local law or Fed TF to do too much.
My way thinking
Feds know all this, that's why this is just the start of other things in the pipe line coming down.
The FAA is having a press conference today, where they will reportedly announce new UAV regulations that may go into effect as soon as December. This could profoundly effect us all....
The press conference will be streamed live here:
U.A.S. Registration Announcement Livestream
This is a great primer article on the subject.
The Problems with Mandatory Drone Registration – Rupprecht Law,PA
Except airspace is federal.. Not sure state airspace is all that practical.And therein lies the difference Cars, boats, motorcycles, canoes, trailer, camper, etc are state, not federally registered.
I agree. I do understand the desire not to be regulated, but as they say, my rights end at your nose, and like it or not UAV's now fly where our RC craft didnt before, there are more of them, and they are in the hands of less skilled pilots.... In some cases peoiple that just don't care, and even some that would like to do harm. Which all brings up new problemsPressed for time as usual latley so sorry I only read the first twenty or so posts, but wouldn't it be easy enough instead of the honor system to force this registration like they forced us to update solo out of the box?
The honor system will do next to nothing, because those of us with honor aren't the ones being idiots doing illegal things.
I agree something need be done and I'm sure this will cause plenty of headaches for our already overworked and under payed, if payed at all sometimes here, law enforcement even if they have no jurisdiction. The citizen wanting to complain will likley still call the police to do so and bother them either way, but we have to try and start somewhere so it's kinda a necessary evil I guess until folks have another option of folks locally to report incidents to.
I've got no problem registering or even being licensed eventually, but until they make new birds unusable until they are registered or tracked I doubt it stops much as far as these stories and safety concerns go.
At least their starting it and moving ahead fast, even if that may cause issues in itself. Hopefully things go smooth and we can keep this great hobby and UAVs as a whole flying for years to come. I'm sure some trial and error on both the regulations and the enforcement of them are coming, hopefully sooner rather than later we see the positive effect were hoping for out of all this.
More like your plane, but yes, I believe so...Does this mean that when you regester your Quad you will get a tag to put on it just like on your car?
Does this mean that when you regester your Quad you will get a tag to put on it just like on your car?
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