As registering the original CB radios, lol

...up for everybody. Get the drone and fly over airports like the stupid dumb-fuck that you are.
Get the drone and fly around the neighborhood either scaring or spying on everybody.

You can't give human beings just about anything without some of them fucking it up..

in the Sierras just north of here, the planes that were dropping fire retardant on the fires were temporarily grounded because of drones. It's going to happen. One of these stupid things is going to interfere with a plane and bring it down in which case the owner of said drone should be charged with murder.

All tankers -- including the DC-10 --were grounded for a full day because of a drone. The fire spread 30% larger because tankers weren't there.

Same thing happened a few days later with a smaller fire. All planes and copters grounded because a couple of idiots just had to check out the fire with their drones.

I like drones and want to get one some day. I'm also a pilot so I agree with reasonable regulation of the activity.

Why people hate drones:

Though I see the sarcasm, kites are tethered, are not designed to fly around remotely, and for the most part, won't get more than 50 feet off the ground. Far lower than would pose any threat to an aircraft unless you were literally standing on the runway. I work at an airport and have never seen anyone nearby with a kite nor have any aircraft reported seeing one. Not saying it hasn't/ doesn't happen, but the threat to aircraft is incredibly miniscule. Drones on the other hand.....

are not really as flight capable (from what I have read) as a standard RC airplane, and the only difference is the presence of a camera, which can easily be added to any "park flyer" (i.e. 'smaller' RC planes that don't require any registration). As cameras get smaller they could conceivably be added even to a small Airhogs brand craft that kids fly. Its going to be hard to draw any meaningful lines on this one in my opinion. So it will create an unmanagable and largely ignored law.

... and cheap! This toy quad with a 720x480 camera is less than $50:



It's got a pretty limited radio range, however -- maybe 75 yards.

A lot of park fliers and quads have been using these 720p "keychain" cameras for years because they only weigh about 18 grams and actually produce pretty good video:

That's why so many gungeoneers are in this thread.

They can't do the same with guns. Don't they teach civics anymore?

Though I wonder what they are going to do about those that are already flying around unregistered. They still pose a great threat to aviation safety. I'm glad to see they are finally taking steps to reduce the likelihood of a catastrophic event. Now, if only they required formal training and a certification process, we'd be all set.

Did the NFL try to complain that someone was taping one of their games or something?

Near misses between airlines and drones in NYC, Christchurch, NZ, Sidney, London and The Liege may have had something to do with it as well.

With an average of two reports per day from pilots (and that's in the US only) saying they spotted an unmanned aerial vehicle within unsafe proximity to aircraft (a drone getting sucked into a jetliner engine is not a good thing), one may surmise that the safety of low airspace was also a factor.

On edit: Additionally, this is not a knee-jerk reaction by the FAA. This is a policy that has been worked and re-worked over the past seven years rather than an isolated incident which 'set them off.'

the drone have to be captured? How often does that happen, and if it's as uncommon as I suspect would this system be worth the cost?

Or will there be some requirement for drones or controllers to broadcast some sort of ID, so that bad-actors can be identified immediately?

I mandate that they hit their target and only their target at a bare minimum. Better still they stop being used all together since they are tools of terror.

I'll put a gun on mine, and the NRA will demand that it not be tracked.

Some time last year, then here in July:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017279372

A while back I made an argument that there was an intersection between gun culture and drones that would eventually bring regulations to both.

I was laughed at by gun trolls.

Like the FAA can regulate drones? The answer is none. Don't they teach civics anymore?

You park the drone outside the victim's home or office and establish your alibi in another state.

Call the victim to see if they are in place and then control the drone through an app on a throwaway phone. After shooting them dead you fly the drone out to sea or into a lake. If you can get a patsy's prints on the gun you could have the drone drop the gun at the scene before leaving.

Coming soon to an episode of CSI.

Next we need knife regulation, hot stovetop touching regulation, and conversion of all throwing type balls to be Nerf only.

No new departments are being created, merely new policy to address the number of near misses, the privacy concerns and necessary low-atmosphere flight coordination that will eventually be needed as the drones becomes less expensive, easier to use, and more of a concern to both private and commercial pilots.

The world will keep on spinning just fine without a few more books of regulations.

Privacy and collision avoidance are already being handled.

If your terrified about a drone peeking through your window, why aren't you similarly paranoid about peeping Toms already? If your so sensitive to the possibility that someone might peek at you, you would be much better served with adding some frosted glass than expecting "registered drones" to solve your issues.

Collision avoidance is a field in its own right, currently being build into self-driving cars and I'm perfectly sure it will end up in drones as well.

Is there anything that should be beyond the myopic mindset of a bureaucrat? How about we mandate that all children should be required to wear air bags covering their entire bodies in case they fall or get hit with something? Absurd? Of course... You might say its far beyond the line to regulate such silliness. Others would say regulating drones are similarly silly.

Exactly where would YOU stop, and how do you respond to the next guy who wants to take things further than you?