drones and faa registration

[BryantParticipant 229]

why? why the registration?
the government doesn’t want you spying on them or others, because that’s their game, and no one beats america at its own game.
http://www.wrdw.com/home/headlines/New-FAA-rules-require-pilots-to-register-drones-363500321.html

"He who lives with honor dies with honor."

[RennieParticipant]

There needs to be accountability. Otherwise there’s no way to tell who owns a given drone/UAV. Really it should go further and require some kind of license to prove the user is competent to operate one.

Unfortunately it’s a case of a few idiots ruining it for everyone else. As it often is.

[ILiveAgainParticipant]

Ok deep breath.

I’m an airline pilot and a professional drone operator here in the uk.

I can see both sides of this … so …

1. When flying and taking off or landing, I and my crew plus passengers are at our most vulnerable. Currently Im flying the airbus a340. This ship can be an absolute pig on climb out when hitting max weight. Most jets only need approx 80% thrust for take off. The 340 needs 100% on quite a few occasions.

The absolute last thing I want is an engine out … let alone one that’s ingested a drone. Not like a bird that can blow an enging but a drone would rip it apart.

2. Unless you can fly your drone totally manually …. no vps .. no gps … no home lock or return home function … you are a danger … to EVERYTHING from cuddles the cat to … well … me.

3. Few people know where controlled airspace is. Few know that power cables can interfere with gps and vps on drones. Likewise cell towers, microwaves etc.

Just google drone flyaways and see how many go rogue.

Should your dji phantom hit my Bentley while you watch helplessly … I want your ass and bank details.

I love drones .. I earn from them …. but they are accidents waiting to happen in the wrong hands.

This xmas will see a wave of new drones being shot up in the sky.

What do you think the chances are of one causing a death?

Go get trained, get confidence, get licenced, get 3rd party insurance and then go fly safe in the knowledge you can deal with s~~~ if it happens.

When I’m flying you or you mum on holiday … be comfortable that I’m not paid to fly you or her … I’m paid to unf~~~ any f~~~ ups. The plane can fly itself……. but it cant sort out s~~~ when it happens.

Same for drones.

[RennieParticipant]

A while back some guy did accidentally kill himself with a drone, somehow it flew into him, chopped the top of his skull off and he died.

[Anonymous 26]

ILiveAgain…. your post is quite insightful as to the implications of drones!

I’ve always thought that…. how long before someone nutcase figures out a way to incorporate a semi automatic weapon or an explosive package onto a drone ?!?!

Now imagine the implications of that rogue weapons platform ?

[RoyDalParticipant]

I am siding with ILiveAgain on this one. Public safety must be preserved. We cannot have airliners going down because some dork is flying his Christmas present in the flight path of airliners.

There are other, and far more sinister, reasons for the authorities to want drones registered and controlled. It centers around their not wanting to be photographed without their knowing. (How can señor policía beat up an innocent man, if there is a camera looking over his shoulder? Of course, señor policía can do it, but how can he do it without getting caught, publicized on YouTube, and put on suspension for thirty days until an “internal investigation” can clear him?)

Society asks MGTOWs: Why are you not making more tax-slaves?

[RennieParticipant]

Anonymous wrote:

ILiveAgain…. your post is quite insightful as to the implications of drones!

I’ve always thought that…. how long before someone nutcase figures out a way to incorporate a semi automatic weapon or an explosive package onto a drone ?!?!

Now imagine the implications of that rogue weapons platform ?

That was on my mind as well, but there’s not alot you can do to stop that without taking away drones completely – which would cause a huge kickback. People don’t necessarily need drones to film the cops, there’s tons of relatively inexpensive spy gear and cameras for sale on the internet.

[AttonParticipant]

I just get the feeling none is going to really care and just keep doing what they are doing.

A MGTOW is a man who is not a woman's bitch!

[sidecarParticipant 35862]

Aren’t remote controlled model planes and model helicopters required to only fly in restricted model airplane parks so they don’t endanger the public and property?

How are “drones” any different from other model helicopters? Why should they get a special exemption from the rules? More importantly, why should model helicopters get an exemption from the rules just because they are owned and operated by, say, amazon or google or some other corporation?

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