NEW YORK (WABC) — The FAA is announcing strict first-of-its-kind rules for the type of drones most popular with hobbyist pilots, confirming that the agency will lay out regulations requiring all new buyers to register their new unmanned multi-copters as part of their effort to get the popular but problematic aircraft under control.
Drones are expected to be one of the hottest gifts this holiday season, and estimates say as many as 750,000 will be sold by Christmas.
The unmanned aerial vehicles have already proven to be dangerous, with daily cases of airline pilots reporting drones flying too close to their aircraft and endangering passengers.
Some have even impeded firefighting efforts.
Regulations for commercial use of the drones proposed by the FAA earlier this year require a written test and limiting flight to below 500 feet.
“The objective is to keep people where they are supposed to fly and people out where they are not allowed to fly,” said Brian Wynne, president and CEO of the Association of Unmanned Vehicle Systems International.
The new rules on drones could be in place by Christmas.
http://abc7ny.com/news/government-set-to-announce-new-regulations-for-drones/1039853/
Um….so…build your own. They would have to prove that it is yours.
Yes, but if you’re going to make something you don’t want anyone to know is yours, be sure to never touch any of the parts without wearing gloves. Anything you touch can leave DNA behind, in addition to the more obvious fingerprints.
register.. where have we heard that word before? and for what purpose ?
yeah F O A D.. i aint registering nothin’
Civil Disobedience is the order of the day
next thing, will be ..”drone straw purchasing”
think im joking?
they fear this technology, because it can listen and take pictures, solid proof against any criminal act, even if its done by those who think they are immune to prosecution..that is until with this technology we have another tool to prove their stories a lie
THEY CAN ALSO DELIVER MUNITIONS…BUT SIZE AND SCOPE GETS PRICEY
I’m skeptical of the statistics regarding these “close calls.” Very skeptical. In fact, I call BS.
RC aircraft (not just “drones”) have been around for decades. Same with model rockets, some of which could reach extremely high altitudes — much, much higher than any of the pint-sized UAVs in common use.
So, why were all these “close calls” near airports and so forth never an issue before? Could it be because now they’re much easier to control and can take decent-quality video? Maybe the government wants to control them for the same reason it wants to control guns?
Plus not to mention their lack of size and mass makes them a fly to 99% of aircraft
Well, it’s true that one of these little drones will destroy a plane’s engine if it gets sucked in. It happens with birds once in a while. But these multi-engine planes can fly while missing an engine. So generally when a bird destroys an engine, the plane just turns around and makes an emergency landing.
The fact that air travel is as safe as it is with birds flying freely all around airports everywhere shows that the threat to manned aircraft from small drones is greatly overstated. The government is only worries about the threat to itself.
Very recently there was a news story about some activists who flew a drone over an NSA facility in Germany. They used the drone to drop leaflets urging the NSA workers to quit and go find honest work. No doubt that kind of incident makes the US Imperial Government very nervous.
“The objective is to keep people where they are supposed to fly and people out where they are not allowed to fly,”
https://youtu.be/DrIVJaryqA0?t=6