Chris Anderson, an early developer of sUAS hardware and ArduPilot firmware
Under new legislation, small Unmanned Aircraft System is subject to compulsory registration prior to the small UAS operating outdoors.
Since home development of model aircraft, small UAS is a procedure made of the following steps:
1. buy parts, install motors, propellers, battery, control unit, radio, sensor/s
2. assembly the above parts
3. test such home developed model aircraft outdoor
loop 1. 2. 3.
Under new legislation home developers, modellers are banned to test new assembled
small aircraft, small drones outdoors,
since you are required to register any assembled kit before the operating outdoors.
Battery replaced > New registration required > new registration number assigned
Motors replaced > ..
Propellers replaced > ...
New frame purchased for tests > New registration required
So in theory and practice, activities of ArduDrone, ArduPlane developers, modellers
have been banned, since any new test is subject to prior registration.
If you claim, you are allowed to replace parts, frame, motor, propellers, battery, controller, radio in your home developed mini drone and such new developed small drone is exempted from compulsory registration, pls let me know your opinion.
Comments
@Ernst Von Schmidt
thank your Ernst for your comments.
The issue is we have been requested to join public hearing and comment new FAA small UAS (small drone) Registration Rule Law in public by Secretary Foxx and his staff
and the above is exactly public response by individuals to the call.
To read 200+ page actual rules by FAA and FAQ and Q&A takes a full month of hard intellectual work for a professional lawyer to guess full impact of new legislation on individuals ( read Penalties Section)
The new federal legislation by FAA is not a joke or a piece of cake
Pls read Penalties Section.
I am sure, detailed small drone (Small UAS) registration form coming with help text, explanation and printed version of the completed registration example form can help us more than friendly version of FAQ or Q&A making no rule or law.
Please provide us your comments to exact wording excerpts from the FAA Law as your private expert's opinion.
200+ page long FAA Rule Law is not made as Q&A so an interactive communication, dicusssion is the only way to get to know "hidden secrets" behind the new legislation.
Believe or not but this 200+ page long legislation by FAA is highly professional and aimed at professional lawyers, so FAA generated FAQ and Q&A to the public and individuals.
But please read Penalties Section again to learn what you risk if you fail to complete registration form properly.
So in my opinion, properly completed registration form examples should be published
by FAA before registration deadline to serve as educational tool to individuals concerned.
It is unbelievable that posters here and on many other forums either have not read the actual rules just released and/or do not understand them, but are still happy to pontificate, muddying each others' waters like a pack of pre-schoolers with tubs of finger-paint. This alone perhaps justifies the concerns of the FAA that have resulted in this bone-simple registration scheme.
I must of missed what Chris' picture has to do with all this?
or fines/prison time.
Who is actually going to register their flying robots?
This decision was made months ago. The comment period was just a sideshow for the peasants to feel as if they live in a representative republic.
I missed the part where Congress authorized the FAA to impose a tax.
My favourite FAQ from the FAA web site.
Q. If I don't have a scale and my drone doesn't appear on the list is there another method to tell how much it weighs?
A. Two sticks of butter weigh 0.5lbs.
@john "Not sure what constitutes 'aircraft' and how much of it could change before it is considered a different 'aircraft' and needs to be registered again. Can't see how swapping batteries changes the aircraft...unless it increases the weight to outside the weight limits."
I can only guess that similar interpretations may be used as for manned small aircraft... as long as the 2"x4" engraved metal data plate remains affixed to the airframe it remains the same aircraft. Even after nearly all of the parts have been replaced. New airframe, new engine, new wings, propeller, landing gear, wheels & tires, control surfaces... etc. As long as the aircraft remains in compliance with its original type certificate AND has the original data plate, it is the same aircraft.
Under: How to use the new registration process
http://www.faa.gov/uas/registration/faqs/#use
Q. If I own multiple drones, do I have to register them all?
A. No. You may register once and apply the same registration number to all your UAS.
The vehicle must be within line of sight because you must be watching it, or if you do FPV you need a spotter who is watching the vehicle and watching for other aircraft.
You can fly autonomously with FPV and still be within line of sight. I do it all the time with a monitor and not goggles. Are you going to tell me that if I fly survey grid in auto, with a FPV monitor, and I am never more than 200 meters away from my aircraft which I can clearly see at all times its not recreation?
Regards,
David R. Boulanger
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