New U.S. FAA rule requires drone owners to register by Feb 19
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Re: New U.S. FAA rule requires drone owners to register by Feb 19
#2The article does not link to the FAA's website.
Here's the link to the actual FAA page: https://www.faa.gov/uas/registration/
It appears that registration opens on 21 Dec, 2015. Further, if registration is done before January 20, 2016 the $5 registration fee will be refunded.
Re: New U.S. FAA rule requires drone owners to register by Feb 19
#3Somehow this really angers me.
Re: New U.S. FAA rule requires drone owners to register by Feb 19
#4I guess I'm glad they're taking some kind of action. As a pilot of both single engine airplanes and "drones", I definitely see the argument from both sides.
Let's see how that website holds up at lunchtime on Dec 25th!
Re: New U.S. FAA rule requires drone owners to register by Feb 19
#5What surprises me is is the minimum weight requirement: 250 grams. That's well below a weight that could reasonably be considered a danger to aircraft or people.
Just for comparison purposes, a McDonald's Big Mac weighs 215-240 grams without wrapper, so with a wrapper if you turned a Big Mac into a drone, it would likely require registration.
The real question is, what is their endgame here? Just send out notifications? It isn't like drones have transponders yet(?).
I like the FAA but this seems misguided and unworkable. Plus $5 is significant when some drones this impacts only costs $30.
Hopefully the FAA has birds 250+ grams register too, just for consistency. In particular as birds kill an order of magnitude more pilots than drones have (have drones ever taken down a plane?).
Re: New U.S. FAA rule requires drone owners to register by Feb 19
#6Somehow this really angers me.
You're not the only one.
Re: New U.S. FAA rule requires drone owners to register by Feb 19
#7Somehow this really angers me.
So now people have to register toys they own....
The anger you are feeling is the screws being tightened a little tighter. Everything nowadays is regulated, controlled and monitored, we in the west are not free, especially in "the land of the free"
And some beuracrat(s) at FAA just guaranteed themselves job security for long time
Re: New U.S. FAA rule requires drone owners to register by Feb 19
#8What surprises me is is the minimum weight requirement: 250 grams. That's well below a weight that could reasonably be considered a danger to aircraft or people. Just for comparison purposes, a McDonald's Big Mac weighs 215-240 grams without wrapper, so with a wrapper if you turned a Big Mac into a drone, it would likely require registration. The real question is, what is their endgame here? Just send out notificatio…
I was under the impression that pretty much anything getting sucked into a jet turbine is a major problem, can anyone speak to whether that's true? Birds don't weigh a lot either, but run into one and you could have a major problem on your hands.
Re: New U.S. FAA rule requires drone owners to register by Feb 19
#9The article does not link to the FAA's website. Here's the link to the actual FAA page: https://www.faa.gov/uas/registration/ It appears that registration opens on 21 Dec, 2015. Further, if registration is done before January 20, 2016 the $5 registration fee will be refunded.
So now, model airplane hobbyists who've been doing the same thing for decades can be penalized with "fines of up to $250,000 and/or imprisonment for up to three years," if they don't realize they have to register their balsa wood RC airplanes.
Re: New U.S. FAA rule requires drone owners to register by Feb 19
#10> Failure to register can result in a hefty penalty, including civil fines of up to $27,500 and criminal penalties of up to $250,000 and three years in prison.
> "The goal is not to be punitive but to get people into compliance," FAA Deputy Administrator Michael Whitaker said.
These two sentences don't seem to mesh for me. Even if they don't plan to actually prosecute any violators (yet), just the threat of that is ridiculous. I guess it's just another tool in the arsenal of prosecutors if they decide they don't like you.
Edit: The second quote was removed from the article.