Posted on 10/16/2015 5:46:25 PM PDT by McGruff
The federal government will announce a new plan requiring anyone buying a drone to register the device with the U.S. Department of Transportation, NBC news has learned.
The government has been concerned about the rise in close calls between unmanned drones and aircraft flying into and out of some of the nation's biggest airports. The plan is expected to be announced Monday.
In July, there was a dangerously close encounter between a drone and a passenger jet with 159 people aboard setting up to land at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport.
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Registered by everyone else but the government. Can’t have those assassin drones shot down and traced back to the feds now can we?
So a registered drone flies near an airport. How do you get the registration number?
Drones are dangerous so you want to register them. Guns are more dangerous so you will want to register those too.
one of my acquaintances owns a business that builds racing drones. he told me to expect this when in California the use of drone surveillance interfered with fighting the forest fire out here. between news organizations and hobbyists there were to many in the sky and it interfered with the forest service.
go drive in some area where a drives license is not required
BE SAFE..if you can....
Pilots are required to have pilots LICENSES to FLY.....in the “public Skies”
why the OPERATORS of DRONES would not exist under the same protective umbrella is a complete..... and utter... mystery.. to me What else needs licensing, bicycles? They cause more death than drones. Kites? Guns?
oh please HOW LONG have DRONES BEEN AROUND?????
What else needs licensing, bicycles? They cause more death than drones. Kites? Guns?
wow!
Becuaae its farm equipment. They are technically suppose to have vehicles in front and back with flashers. Seldom done. Waiting for a young kid or family to be wiped out. Ive come so close too many times. It would be different if we were flat level ground with viability for miles.
gun ownership is PROTECTED by the Consitution
Guns seldom GO AWRY...
Guns seldom fly too closely to ariliners cusing a tremendous hazard
I could go on..... but as your “mind is made up
I shall leave you to your own devices on this topic
Sounds too exciting for me!
Freegards
Nice red herring, might be remotely plausible if 12 year olds had any standing under law with respect to general citizen rights and commercial code...
You’d better research the definition of “Driver” and other aspects of licensing... (While most people buy into the licensing, you don’t need a license to travel non commercially on public roads in personal vehicles not registered in state ownership).
“The earliest examples of electronically guided model aircraft were hydrogen-filled model airships of the late 19th century. They were flown as a music hall act around theater auditoriums using a basic form of spark-emitted radio signal.”
No motive whatsoever for actual government douches to be doing some of the idiotic flying. Hell, if that were so, next thing you know they’d be doing something like facilitating illegal gun sales to besmirch the Second Amendment... /s
When the drones in government are regulated, tested, licensed and inspected to ensure no defects, then I will consider knuckling under to the pompous bastards.
That borders on the asinine “but why do you need so many guns” blather from anti 2A folks.
But to be fair and humor you, from a buddies experience it is insanely cool to fly aerobatics and high speed maneuvers in the first person with the unit ( like you are actually behind the stick in the vehicle)
Second, they take SPECTACULAR HD video from angles you would otherwise never see. He can fly to the top of one of the mountains at my place and show me the interior of a cave or area around a rock outcropping in a minute or two that would take me a half hour plus or so each way to get there.
There’s got to be some kind of a minimum size/weight to be regulated. Under 20 grams ~0.5 ounce is typical for an indoor nano quad and these aren’t even the smallest on the market.
I think a larger Phantom II quad weighs around 2 - 2.5 lbs. plus payload. These outdoor multirotor copters are on the scale that often get into perceived “trouble”.
Futabu is a brand of RC controller. A few years ago I broke out my old man’s 1983 vintage Futabu transmitter (I distinct remember as a kid going into Manhattan on a Saturday to buy that radio, it was a Cadillac)... So yeah, I pulled it out from the cellar and I rigged it up to a gas powered plane I made out of a $4.99 styrofoam glider. It flew. Transmitting on old school broad band is now verboten. Everything has gone to narrow band.
not unless you want to stay out of jail...i suppose
you live in SOVERIEGN MONTANA... do you..... by ANY Chance??
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