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FAA Announces Small UAS Registration Rule
Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2015 1:24 am
by Termite
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) today announced a streamlined and user-friendly web-based aircraft registration process for owners of small unmanned aircraft (UAS) weighing more than 0.55 pounds (250 grams) and less than 55 pounds (approx. 25 kilograms) including payloads such as on-board cameras.
The Registration Task Force delivered recommendations to FAA Administrator Michael Huerta and Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx on November 21. The rule incorporates many of the task force recommendations.
“Make no mistake: unmanned aircraft enthusiast are aviators, and with that title comes a great deal of responsibility,” said U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx. “Registration gives us an opportunity to work with these users to operate their unmanned aircraft safely. I’m excited to welcome these new aviators into the culture of safety and responsibility that defines American innovation.”
Registration is a statutory requirement that applies to all aircraft. Under this rule, any owner of a small UAS who has previously operated an unmanned aircraft exclusively as a model aircraft prior to December 21, 2015, must register no later than February 19, 2016. Owners of any other UAS purchased for use as a model aircraft after December 21, 2015 must register before the first flight outdoors.....
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I predict massive non-compliance.
Re: FAA Announces Small UAS Registration Rule
Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2015 5:15 am
by Rod
He who shall not be named here posted this on Facebook:
An open letter to the FAA regarding RC model regulation:
1. No.
2. Go fuck yourself.
3. Please, go ahead, try and enforce this, and see what happens.
4. Strongly worded communication to follow.
Pretty well sums up what's going to happen. Imagine home built drones and planes with NO markings buzzing FAA headquarters across the nation.
Re: FAA Announces Small UAS Registration Rule
Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2015 6:43 am
by evan price
Right, like my kids are going to register their quadcopters and Symas.
Re: FAA Announces Small UAS Registration Rule
Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2015 11:24 am
by Denis
This rule is effective December 21, 2015
It seems the FAA got 25 December and 1 April mixed up...
Good luck registering all those Christmas presents. Batteries not included!
https://youtu.be/h25ZL7fxZ8o?t=18s
Re: FAA Announces Small UAS Registration Rule
Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2015 3:14 pm
by Windy Wilson
RC model planes. . Now you have to register RC models heavier than 8 ounces.
I'm thinking of Oleg Volk's photograph with the caption, "They won't confiscate your deer rifle. They'll call it a dangerous sniper rifle first."
Re: FAA Announces Small UAS Registration Rule
Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2015 5:50 pm
by randy
I wonder how quickly this will turn into a re-run of the FCC's attempts at enforcing licensing of CB radios in the 70s before they finally gave up.
Re: FAA Announces Small UAS Registration Rule
Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2015 6:13 pm
by mekender
This is a felony... Punishible by up to $250,000 in fines and 3 years in prison... For failing to register the toy your kid got for Christmas...
Re: FAA Announces Small UAS Registration Rule
Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2015 6:39 pm
by JAG2955
I simply skimmed the proposed rule.
Is there a requirement for it to be powered? Or non-RC? Does this mean that a balsa-wood, rubber band powered airplane would have to be registered if it was over .55lbs? A paper airplane? Lawn dart? Didn't see anything like that on first glance. This could get stupid.
But, thanks, FAA! You just helped a new generation become anti-registration. I bet that it bleeds over to guns, too.
Re: FAA Announces Small UAS Registration Rule
Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2015 9:33 pm
by Aesop
I see.
You're going to charge me with having an unregistered drone, which you'll prove is mine, because...
it's not registered to me?
Interesting.
We're the feds. It's what we do.
Whether it works or not isn't our department.
Re: FAA Announces Small UAS Registration Rule
Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2015 10:13 pm
by Mike OTDP
I'm gritting my teeth here. The FAA has made a massive mistake in issuing a rule that will see wholesale non-compliance.
On the other hand, there are perfectly legitimate concerns. The off-the-shelf hardware that can be bought is growing in performance and weight. Increasing in capability. And is getting into the hands of people who are not terribly responsible. An R/C modeler who built his own airplane tends to operate sensibly. Timmy Teenybopper who got a "dwone" for Christmas? Not so much. He'll plow the thing into someone's house or car...or worse, get something that has the performance to operate in an airfield operating pattern. I've lived the last twenty years in the pattern of a general aviation airfield, am a GA pilot, and the thought of some twit operating his toy in the national airspace scares me silly.