Alex Greve addresses the FAA's Registration

[Derek]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpKaXFpL_hA

[cml001]

Humm

[pvolcko]

Hmm indeed.

I'm not a fan of the melodramatic delivery. Invoking claims of any sort of tyranny with the tyrants themselves rarely works very well as a means of argument. But he has a very good point on the excessive fines and penalties aspect things. Maybe those sorts of fines and penalties make sense when it involves full scale aircraft carrying actual people, flying over personal property as a matter of course. But when as applied to small models and "drones" which are almost always flown either over empty spaces with little to no risk of personal injury or property damage, or over personal property with permission from the property owner, it makes practically no sense at all.

And being lost in all this is the insane set of requirements being heaped on "commercial" sUAS operators. Maybe in some contexts all the regs make some sense, but I think they are far and few between, while the requirements are massive overkill for 95% of use cases. Flight plans, flight logs, equipment inspections and maintenance logs (scheduled replacement regimes? redundancies?), full scale ground school, etc. A separate commercial use registration regime requiring waivers, maybe bonding?, and whatnot. Like I said, maybe in some very limited cases all of that makes sense, but in the vast majority it is simply insane and being used as a effective clamp on most all use cases, which would be considered "light" commercial/industrial, at worst.

[cml001]

I'm still just... Lost, confused, don't get it, why, pissed, this apply to me, huh, really, ..... I can see it in a case of serious threat maybe.. But I'm an AMA member.. Keep the insurance.. Don't do crazy stuff that endangers others.. Nor have I see this happen.. So I don't know.. I was gonna register.. Now I think I'm just gonna fly.. Hell with it!

[cml001]

Well.. I don't think the AMA is gonna budge the FAA..even commercially operated "drones", operated correctly within the law are giving the FAA all the fuel they need to feed this fire.
http://youtu.be/wPd7H0912Us
Since this iv heard that the compitition will no longer allow for filming via "drones"... Who knows.. Lol, on the lighter side of this skiing incident... This thing went in hard! Lol

[Graham Lawrie]

Oh dear:( Like how the female presenter said he did not flinch!! my money is on he never even seen it. So sad for you guys in USA, these incidents are going to damage our hobby:(

[pvolcko]

No kidding. No way he was even aware of that during his run.

[Derek]

Oh dear:( Like how the female presenter said he did not flinch!! my money is on he never even seen it. So sad for you guys in USA, these incidents are going to damage our hobby:(

It is definitely a sad time for us, Graham. I think that you and the Mrs better start making some room because it's almost time for us to move to Scotland, lol

[Graham Lawrie]

As long as you bring the good weather Derek:)

[Derek]

As long as you bring the good weather Derek:)

ha ha ha...there's no good weather here, Graham!!!