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Overreacting government
On Tue, 15 Dec 2015 17:30:04 -0500, wrote:
On Tue, 15 Dec 2015 17:05:34 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: On 12/15/2015 1:55 PM, wrote: On Tue, 15 Dec 2015 13:23:58 -0500, John H. wrote: The people doing the most complaining of drones operated by hobbyists are private and commercial pilots. They are the ones pushing the FAA for the enforcement of regulations regarding their use. The regulations exist. Registration is an attempt to further enforcement. I can attest from experience that a sudden, unexpected distraction at a critical moment in your approach to landing could cause an accident. Birds are a problem (especially seagulls in our area). So are idiots flying drones near an airport. I played golf with a pilot Sunday. He's concerned about drones, but thinks a bigger problem is lasers. He said he knows several pilots who've quit flying because of lasers. I think that may be a bit overblown too. A drone could definitely damage an engine, but it's doubtful whether it could bring a plane down. I have not even heard of a drone caused accident. It is just people offended that someone else is in their "space". Fully registered planes with licensed pilots have caused far more close calls than drones and more than a few fatalities. Maybe they were "aware" enough. Charge them another $5 to tune them up. Amazing. "... people offended that someone else is in their "space". A pilot on final shouldn't be concerned with a nitwit flying a drone or RC aircraft. He has enough to be focused on, especially when his aircraft is in a vulnerable place and flying setup. It's not an issue of intruding on their "space". There are really two concerns that have pushed this registration requirement. One is the expressed concerns of pilots who put pressure on the FAA. The other is the realization that on December 26 the number of these are likely to increase by 50 percent overnight. The idea is to discourage irresponsible operation *before* an accident occurs. Registration allows the possibility of tracing a captured drone back to it's irresponsible owner. Those who are responsible for the safe operation of their RC's have nothing to be concerned about. All of that assumes they recover the drone, it is actually marked and that they can read the marks. Then they have to prove you actually own the drone and that someone didn't just pick your number out of thin air. If I am flying in a restricted area, I doubt I would mark my drone. They have written a regulation that depends on everyone doing the right thing but if everyone did the right thing we wouldn't need the regulation in the first place. I may have to make that into a sig line. -- Ban idiots, not guns! |
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