If it's not autonomous then it is not a drone... Not sure how we started calling all RC helicopters "drones".
That's a great point.
They are probably drone-style helicopters. ;-)
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If it's not autonomous then it is not a drone... Not sure how we started calling all RC helicopters "drones".
I'm just the messenger, so please hold your fire
http://www.faa.gov/news/press_releases/news_story.cfm?newsId=19856
Registration Begins on December 21, 2015, First 30 Days are Free
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) today announced a streamlined and user-friendly web-based aircraft registration process for owners of small unmanned aircraft (UAS) weighing more than 0.55 pounds (250 grams) and less than 55 pounds (approx. 25 kilograms) including payloads such as on-board cameras.... see link
registration link www.faa.gov/uas/registration
Breaking news... All citizens with toolboxes, tools, and implements that could approximate tools are required to register those items with the Department of Homeland Insecurity. Failure to register will result in your assignment to a gender integrated Marine Infantry Regiment. Don't test the fed!!! They will do it!!!
Exactly.First they registered the drones, and I didn't care because I didn't have a drone....
I think the FAA has fallen into the trap of issuing a regulation that will be largely flouted.
That being said, there have been problems. The R/C model aviation community has their heads screwed on straight, but you can buy some hardware that is out-of-the-box flight -ready...and the FAA has a legitimate concern with some twit crashing into houses and cars. To say nothing of operating in airport traffic patterns.
... It also invokes huge penalties (1/4 million fine + 3 years in fed prison) being the way the system was established it is all but guaranteed to produce MILLIONS of new criminals through massive non-compliance which is sure to be misused by the Administration.
If we put a gun on our drones, do we have to register them twice?
I think the FAA has fallen into the trap of issuing a regulation that will be largely flouted.
That being said, there have been problems. The R/C model aviation community has their heads screwed on straight, but you can buy some hardware that is out-of-the-box flight -ready...and the FAA has a legitimate concern with some twit crashing into houses and cars. To say nothing of operating in airport traffic patterns.
Didn't CB radios once require a govt. license, and once the craze hit in the 70's sales went through the roof and everybody pretty much ignored it?
Didn't CB radios once require a govt. license, and once the craze hit in the 70's sales went through the roof and everybody pretty much ignored it?
I have a number of microcontroller boards - Arduinos, PICs, AVRs, etc. I have at least one computer capable of downloading autopilot code, compiling it, and downloading it to these boards. If I receive an R/C airplane as a Christmas gift, will I be in constructive possession of a drone?
The drone folks haven't been down this path ... yet.
This makes me want to do a DIY drone project with my raspberry pi.
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