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.
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I see, so any rule that the FAA comes up with that cannot be proven to adversely affect safety can be put into effect immediately by the FAA without obtaining or listening to public comment.
I am afraid our political process has gone terribly wrong <- Gross Understatement!
Sorry Ernst,
The new FAA regulation is about registration of a model aircraft (UAS)
http://www.faa.gov/uas/registration/
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there have been no tools other than the AMA (which every drone pilot should join)
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If membership in an organization is not compulsory so this is just your private suggestion to inject 1 million new owners of a drone into membership of AMA.
No pilot named by the legislation just owner of a drone.
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If you own a drone, you must register it with the Federal Aviation Administration's Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) registry.
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The new regulation for registering yourself as a pilot
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No pilots, no registration of pilots.
Please write comments by AMA in another thread
http://diydrones.com/profiles/blogs/ama-hold-off-on-registering-mod...
Darius: Please stop obfuscating what are simple matters. Your original post that started this more or less worthless thread indicates total confusion and is confusing others. You are apparently mixing together different classifications of aircraft and their regulations.
If your point is that in a highly theoretical sense a LHS owner who sets up and test flies say, a Blade 350 for a customer is engaging in commercial activity, the FAA has never taken that sort of extreme position and isn't doing so now.
The new regulation for registering yourself as a pilot and marking your number on the aircraft you are flying has nothing to do with anything else. It does not change your ability to do this or that or fly here or there. That's the FAA's entire argument regarding the will of congress, that they are merely listing or keeping track of what's going on, not actually changing a thing. And frankly, that's pretty much what this looks like, I cannot think of a lesser thing that they could even do than this, other than shouting out of their windows to be careful, like a mother yelling at her kids as they go off to school.
All sorts of people are making much more of this than it is. Meanwhile, there are powerful groups, including people like helicopter pilots, surveyors, traditional aerial photographers, and on and on, along with all their support industries, who are desperately afraid they are about to become irrelevant and obsolete, like farriers in a gas station, and who will do most anything to slow or stop UAS development and propagation. Direct evidence of this lies in the huge proportion of obvious lies in the flow of "incident" reports (debunked by the AMA, by the way).
I think there are also crusading drone-hating or drone-fearing individuals in these and many many other forums doing their best to intentionally incite and divide us, or to at least sow confusion, now in the hope that they can help the registration effort fail, which would carry the threat of something much harsher being deployed. These same forces are hard at work in legislatures from village to federal levels, and they are all over the media. Many a reporter who fancies him/herself a photographer hates drones and will stick a journalistic knife into any one of us and twist it, as can be seen almost daily somewhere.
There have been internal calls for a long time for us to police ourselves, but there have been no tools other than the AMA (which every drone pilot should join) with which to do that. Registration might be used as such a tool. And if we don't make complete fools of ourselves in the public's eyes by kicking and screaming and whining like three-year-olds about what everyone else does routinely when they re-up their DL or register their boat or car or licence their dog, for crying out loud, then maybe we can use the fact of our registration to gain some legitimacy and some traction.
Finally, the OPs ramblings about the 200 pages being too much for anyone to possibly digest etc. is nonsense. The summarizations cover everything that you need to know, spend a half an hour browsing it and your good to go.
I don't know if manned ultralights need to be registered. If your flying one and you have know idea what your doing you will be taken out of the gene pool real quick. All this FAA stuff has come about due to people not using very much common sense and responsibility.
Regards,
David R. Boulanger
Darius; If I look at a monitor with a OSD to check my altitude or to frame a picture for recreational purpose its O.K.. Its not much different than looking at Mission Planner from time to time. If you take a picture and use it for business use with the name of a company than yes its commercial. You also cannot compare what manned aircraft can do because you need a pilots license to fly a manned aircraft. Again, I'm not happy with all this but its not the end of the world. Enough of the Chicken Little stuff.
Regards,
David R. Boulanger
Manned ultralights and other DIY aircraft still don't require registration?
from
http://dronelawjournal.com/
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The June 2014 FAA Interpretation of Section 336.
In June 2014, the FAA issued its Interpretation of the Special Rule for Model Aircraft (Section 336 above). With its Interpretation, the FAA declared, among other things:
Compensation of any sort is banned. The FAA claims that flying a drone in a manner that is “in furtherance of a business” is illegal even though no currently enforceable statute or regulation exists that would forbid it. (Remember, the FMRA does not apply to the general public.) That includes everything from the obvious (aerial photography) to the less obvious (flight instruction or demonstrations that would further one’s business). Showing drone-obtained video and a company logo simultaneously online or on-air is considered “commercial.” Moreover, drone flights that are “incidental to a business” (which would not be considered “commercial” in a full-size manned aircraft) are considered commercial if done with a drone.
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Operating a drones using “first person view” (“FPV”) is prohibited. This means you cannot use goggles or any modern “watch it on a monitor” system to fly, or even the long-accepted “buddy box” method where a second person (with a separate controller) observes the drone at all time while the pilot flies. Instead, the pilot’s own eyes must be able to see the drone at all times while flying.
+ 100 Thomas Butler! Not saying I'm happy about it, but, in the grand scheme of life its just a little headache.
Regards,
David R. Boulanger
If the original poster of this thread had taken the time to actually read and comprehend the FAA ruling, this thread would have many fewer entries! Good job starting the fire!
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