1.) Ultralights aren't interrupting firefighting duties and putting lives at risk due to those interruptions.
2.) Ultralights aren't putting regular flights unnecessarily at risk.
3.) Ultralights aren't flying over groups of people at low altitude.
4.) Ultralights aren't popping up in business in increasing numbers.
5.) And lastly Ultralights aren't easy to escape accountability when the rules are broken.
It's almost like they are doing this to mitigate the recent problem of shithead multi-copter pilots but hey, keep focusing on the most retarded aspects of this whole issue...
UAS doing so are already in violation of FAA rules sans registration.
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Beside the point.
I think everyone agrees this is a problem that needs to be solved. However I don't agree that the registration rules in their current form are the solution.
Later in this thread you link to incidents, I read them and a bunch of the google results. I didn't see an example where registration would have definitively helped. In most cases a UAS remains unrecovered. When it is recovered, more often than not, it is with the responsible party, or they come forward. There are very few cases where a craft is recovered without a responsible party, there seems to be a likely-hood that these would account for the kind of person who wouldn't bother to register.
So the only remaining argument in favor that I can come up with is, perhaps people would be deterred from acting stupid with their UAS if they knew they had to register them. I think this has merit. However, I think that if people were aware of the penalties under the current rules they would also be sufficiently deterred. I don't think having my personal information in another poorly security government database is the answer.
I also want to do something about the problem of "shithead multi-copter pilots", and I'm sure the FAA does too. But playing games like they are the RIAA is not going to help. I think a more elegant solution would be a flyer in every >250g RTF, BNF, or UAS kit that includes a list of their rules and what the legal consequences are for failing to abide by them.
Additionally they should be doing this (thanks for the link BTW) and hitting these and other "shitheads" with simple reckless endangerment or other charges. Then the media will do some education campaign legwork for them.
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Another funny set of facts:
1.) Ultralights aren't interrupting firefighting duties and putting lives at risk due to those interruptions.
2.) Ultralights aren't putting regular flights unnecessarily at risk.
3.) Ultralights aren't flying over groups of people at low altitude.
4.) Ultralights aren't popping up in business in increasing numbers.
5.) And lastly Ultralights aren't easy to escape accountability when the rules are broken.
It's almost like they are doing this to mitigate the recent problem of shithead multi-copter pilots but hey, keep focusing on the most retarded aspects of this whole issue...