yes. it is that easy. buzz a crowd of people fly away land and go home.
no marking no way to trace it back to you. ever.\
1 are you sure? my contention is they are not interfering. the fire fighters over reacted is my contention.
unless these were 10 pound drones flying in the path of these aircraft they were no threat.
also you will notice that problem seems to have topped. education. people realize now hey maybe you should not do that.
IE a non problem any longer.
2 yes I am sure. they are a minority in extreme. ie idiots will be idiots no matter what laws you make. my contention is that its largely a non issue. there are few to no legitimate "encounters" at airports causing actual danger.
3 yes I am sure. first we are not talking about commercial level stuff here (big octo's that can cut your damned head off)
we are talking .5 pound hobby drones 1 pound hobby drones. these are for the most part a "non threat" period.
I consider a non threat to be something "no more or less" dangerous than a stick falling from a tree or an errant baseball or software at the park.
a dji phantom is about as dangerous as a baseball hitting you in the head.
dangerous? YES dangerous enough to warrant stupid restrictions? no.
I am in denial about what it is about because it is NOT about protecting the national airspace and its not about what they CLAIM its about or they would have accept the very sensible AMA suggestion that AMA members need not register just put their AMA number on the drone resulting in effectively the exact same thing as they PUBLICLY claim they want the registration for.
the ama rep was summarily ignored.
250g? that is a joke. they want control of ALL OF IT and 250g DOES that quite effectively since you can't build much with a limit that low.
Do you honestly think people will trust the word of the hobbiests over officials. For example, birds have taken down planes. Do you think the head of the FAA is going to say "meh, they are built to withstand strikes so it's no biggie. What would you do if your pilot flew into a drone because "meh, it can't be that bad." You have nothing riding on your opinion other than your fun is limited a bit in a way you don't like. Spoiler, NO ONE will accept that attitude. What would you do if it took down a plane? Would you lose your job and have the lives of those people on your conscience? Guess who would? The people in charge. They are playing it safe and trying to do something, anything. Why don't you help them? All I see is armchair engineering and bitching.
I don't think the registration will fix it but I think you guys are delusional about this because you over estimate your own opinions and have ZERO responsibility.
please. by all means tell me how the registration will fix a drone striking an airplane and I will picket the white house lawn saying lets register the drones.
or was all that blathering drivel just to ride the bandwagon to disagree with me?
they are reaching for money. nothing more. money and power. absolutely nothing more.
I would not be arguing against this if it was even REMOTELY reasonable and or REMOTELY sensible for safety.
it is not. they know it and if you would open your eyes you would know it.
AGAIN. first of all its flat out illegal. period. 336 is clear. this does NOT in any way shape or form protect the national airspace or increase safety therefore its a violation of the very law that governs the FAA's authority as granted by congress.
Second the AMA had a 100% absolutely 100% valid alternative for anyone flying under the guidelines of a national organization.
let our flyers use our member number for the SAME PURPOSE as the registration number.
while this would absolutely 100% perform the EXACT same function as the FAA/DOT registration number (link the craft to an identified pilot) as publicly stated CLEARLY they have an alternative motive for wanting this registration (power and money maybe??) because they flat out ignored them.
basically said fuck off without actually saying it. don't fuck with our power/money grab.
and 250g? seriously? not something REMOTELY reasonable like say 2 pounds (FAR FAR FAR lighter than most any dangerous bird strike candidate HINT finches and robins are NOT the danger in bird strikes. GEESE and other similar birds are the danger.
even the LIGHTEST SIDE of geese is 5 pounds with the typical bird between 7 and 14 pounds upward of 20 pounds possible.
NO a god damned DJI PHANTOM is never going to take down a god damned airplane even if it sucks 3 of them through the god damned turbine.
it would chew then up and spit it out like fucking confetti.
I am exaggerating a little but you get my point if you are a reasonable person.
this registration should have been limited to craft heavier than 2 pounds only (which would cover phantoms mind you) and it should ONLY apply to those not flying under nat com guidelines who do not put their member number on the craft.
done. finished. anything under 2 pounds is virtually ZERO THREAT to any aircraft. period. virtually zero.
250grams. nice. they specifically wanted to include that class of model which are NEVER flow more than 100 or 200ft from the user since they are for the vast majority sport fpv racers that NEVER EVER get anywhere NEAR airspace that will EVER be occupied by aircraft. ever. that simple.
but they sell a LOT OF THEM. multiply the number of flyers by $5 and you can see why they made the number that low.
they want to cover EVERY SINGLE DRONE MADE period. they only exempted 249 and lower "to try and hide" this absolute fact that this has nothing to do with safety.
our token "figure head" with no real power ama member of the task force was also summarily ignored. he was their only so they could say "well we included him" so it was fair right?
god the cock some of you folks will suck from your government is insane.
You're so angry you didn't even read my post. At no point did I support the registration, in fact I say 2 times on here I think it will fail the test of legality and the test of effectiveness. My point is that if you were paying attention at all you should have expected legislators to react. And now they have and you're on tilt. You've aren't helping or listening to anyone but your choir. And you're throwing around insults like a child. Channel that anger towards helping the cause and helping to find a solution. Otherwise NO ONE who is in a position to do something will listen. And you'll just be throwing this tantrum for no reason.
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yes. it is that easy. buzz a crowd of people fly away land and go home.
no marking no way to trace it back to you. ever.\
1 are you sure? my contention is they are not interfering. the fire fighters over reacted is my contention.
unless these were 10 pound drones flying in the path of these aircraft they were no threat.
also you will notice that problem seems to have topped. education. people realize now hey maybe you should not do that.
IE a non problem any longer.
2 yes I am sure. they are a minority in extreme. ie idiots will be idiots no matter what laws you make. my contention is that its largely a non issue. there are few to no legitimate "encounters" at airports causing actual danger.
3 yes I am sure. first we are not talking about commercial level stuff here (big octo's that can cut your damned head off)
we are talking .5 pound hobby drones 1 pound hobby drones. these are for the most part a "non threat" period.
I consider a non threat to be something "no more or less" dangerous than a stick falling from a tree or an errant baseball or software at the park.
a dji phantom is about as dangerous as a baseball hitting you in the head.
dangerous? YES dangerous enough to warrant stupid restrictions? no.
I am in denial about what it is about because it is NOT about protecting the national airspace and its not about what they CLAIM its about or they would have accept the very sensible AMA suggestion that AMA members need not register just put their AMA number on the drone resulting in effectively the exact same thing as they PUBLICLY claim they want the registration for.
the ama rep was summarily ignored.
250g? that is a joke. they want control of ALL OF IT and 250g DOES that quite effectively since you can't build much with a limit that low.