U.S. Will Require Drones to Be Registered
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U.S. Will Require Drones to Be Registered
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#2I love the progress drones have given our society. From surveying property to beautiful aerial views in a video to cool view of your kids soccer game to just plain fun. Drones are amazing.
You can buy a great drone and get amazing shots over and over for less than it would cost to hire a helicopter once.
However, they also pose a risk. I'd favor a simple registration process and clear cut rules that are not infringing on the use of drones. I'd like to see the registration used mostly to enforce the rules and track a drone back to its owner.
Ideally, drones should also broadcast its ID, so it's easy for other pilots to know they're in the area and also allow LEO to ticket/fine for offences. Without a broadcasting ID, most of these rules will be hard to enforce.
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#3And now we hope that their definition of "drone" doesn't include traditional RC aircraft, ten-dollar indoor micro-quadcopters, paper airplanes, RC cars, model rockets, or children's balloons.
Edit: oh, and that it does include commercial airliners under autopilot, military aircraft under autopilot, NASA-scale rocket launches, and military guided missiles and cruise missiles.
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#4I'm wondering how this will be implemented.
If used recreationally, they're R/C flying models, no matter how much the DJI marketing dept likes the term. So will the the hobby that has been fine for decades be hit too?
Will you have to register a Cheerson CX-Stars that weighs 8g?
What about the congressional Special Rule for Model Aircraft? "Technically it's not the FAA so we can regulate everything!" or what?
They're also not that hard to build yourself and the components are shared with other things (e.g. motors are shared with R/C cars and the first popular flight controller was an Arduino with the sensors from a Wii Motion Plus or Nunchuk) so you can't ban the part sales.
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#5In case anyone is reading from NBC, would you mind using the term "UAV" or "RPA" over "drone"? When we throw around the word "drone" here on reddit and hacker news I feel like it's okay because many of us know the key differences between what we're flying and the hellfire raining completely terrifying semi-automated flying death machines deployed in war-zones around the world.
However, many people who read your articles might not be so well informed. Many people have an incorrect and confused understanding of them and to them the word "drone" carries that jumbled mess of an associations. It would be helpful to everyone involved to use more precise modern language. You may argue - as the ACLU has - that the word "drone" is the most direct way to talk about unmanned aerial vehicles to the broad public. It may be easy to use and direct, but it's far from accurate. As Edward Murrow famously said "We cannot make good news out of bad practice."
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#6I'm wondering how this will be implemented. If used recreationally, they're R/C flying models, no matter how much the DJI marketing dept likes the term. So will the the hobby that has been fine for decades be hit too? Will you have to register a Cheerson CX-Stars that weighs 8g? What about the congressional Special Rule for Model Aircraft? "Technically it's not the FAA so we can regulate everything!" or what? They're…
You can't ban parts but couldn't you enforce a a rule that restricts airspace above a certain height to only registered devices?
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#7If I attach a gun to it, then can I avoid registering it?
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#8I'm wondering how this will be implemented. If used recreationally, they're R/C flying models, no matter how much the DJI marketing dept likes the term. So will the the hobby that has been fine for decades be hit too? Will you have to register a Cheerson CX-Stars that weighs 8g? What about the congressional Special Rule for Model Aircraft? "Technically it's not the FAA so we can regulate everything!" or what? They're…
You can't ban parts but couldn't you enforce a a rule that restricts airspace above a certain height to only registered devices?
This is already true.
Model aircraft have to be flown within visual line of sight (FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012, Section 336), which restricts the height.
Commercial use is already FAA territory and you have to be registered (Section 333 Exemption).
/Edit: Section 336, not 366.
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#9In case anyone is reading from NBC, would you mind using the term "UAV" or "RPA" over "drone"? When we throw around the word "drone" here on reddit and hacker news I feel like it's okay because many of us know the key differences between what we're flying and the hellfire raining completely terrifying semi-automated flying death machines deployed in war-zones around the world. However, many people who read your artic…
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#10In case anyone is reading from NBC, would you mind using the term "UAV" or "RPA" over "drone"? When we throw around the word "drone" here on reddit and hacker news I feel like it's okay because many of us know the key differences between what we're flying and the hellfire raining completely terrifying semi-automated flying death machines deployed in war-zones around the world. However, many people who read your artic…
I'm with you, but at some point the battle is lost, and you're throwing good effort after bad.