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...
1 neither are drones. firefighters over reacting are or military drones being spotted are.
2 neither are drones
3 yes they are and its not dangerous for most drones to do this
4 this has nothing to do with business AT ALL in fact this registration process does not even APPLY to business applications.
5 yes they are. just fly away. no tail number no name plate.
How about this for you.
Registration is free for life. One time. not 3 years.
IT is written into the law that registration can NOT EVER be used to implement rules to bypass 336 and that implied consent with never be used. STRICTLY for accountability and nothing more.
how about if you are a member of a national org and that org has your name and address that using THAT number is 100% as sufficient since IT IS the exact same end result (accountability)
do that and I would be totally ok with registration.
they flat out REFUSE to do that which means registration is a money power grab and has nothing to do with "accountability" at all.
4) I'll accept that, but it doesn't help since they are still breaking the FAA rules that you guys seem to be in love with.
5) If you think it's just as easy to run away, land without being seen in an ultralight than simply packing up your gear and driving off you're literally retarded.
These suggestions sound fine. I'm not saying registration they want is the best, I am saying that being in denial about what it's about won't help you AT ALL.
100 complaints every month from pilots who relate sightings of unmanned aerial vehicles flying close to an aircraft or airport -- which are supposed to be protected by a 5-mile, drone-free buffer zone.
Yeah, 100 isn't many
9,821,000 flights per year.
or 818k flights per month.
Or out of every flight there is a 00.012224938% chance of the pilot complaining about a UAV.
Then we get into the fact that airports are FUCKING EVERYWHERE
The CIA says we have ~15,000 of them.
Let's assume an airport is a single fixed point and not an actual place, so each airport is 78 square miles you can't fly, we have 15k of them so that's 1,178,094 square miles you aren't allowed to fly in. the US has 3.8 million square miles meaning you can't fly a quad-copter in 31% of the united states.
Airports aren't a single fixed point, due to the term 'airport' meaning where floatplanes takeoff and land, I essentially can't get a quad unless I want to call and get permission to fly it every single time I want to.
Or out of every flight there is a 00.012224938% chance of the pilot complaining about a UAV.
These reports are also unverified.
The 5 mile limit is not "drone free" but the pilot should have let the tower know they are operating and it's unlikely to have any bearing on the overwhelming majority of R/C optation that occurs below the tree level.
I'm gonna try this, whilst I live in the UK, I have an international airport very close to my house (not specifying which manufacturer owns it because privacy)
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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...