"The panel, which included representatives from Amazon, Google, drone
manufacturers and aviation groups, delivered their recommendations to
the FAA Administrator Michael Huerta on Saturday."
Regulation favors big corporations and the "aviation groups" hate
drones. They would require regular GA pilot licenses for them if they
got their wish.
I doubt I will ever buy one so I really don't have a dog in the fight.
I do wonder how they actually plan on enforcing this since it is the
operator they want to register, not the purchaser or the drone itself.
When these things start hitting the Craigs list and Ebay market, used
for a few bucks each, any chance of tracking them will be ridiculous.
I know it is "free" now but once the regulation costs starts hitting
budgets, I doubt that will last long if the plan survives very long.
OTOH this is very likely to go the way of the CB and marine VHF
license. These days I doubt more than 10% of these operators have any
license at all and they might not actually remember the call sign. VHF
went license free 25 years ago and CB has been a free fire zone for
more like 40 years (KHFS-5589 here) That was probably in the last
batch of CB licenses ever issued. FCC doesn't seem to remember it.
The 'registration' can be enforced at AMA sanctioned flying fields by disallowing the
flying of drones without the registration data attached. Easy.
Except that the drones causing the problems are most likely not being flown from AMA
sanctioned fields.
And, they're cheap now. The quad I got for the grandkids to play with cost about $70.
No camera or GPS though.
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