New Task Force to Develop Recommendations by November 20
WASHINGTON – U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx and FAA Administrator Michael Huerta today announced the creation of a task force to develop recommendations for a registration process for Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS).
The task force will be composed of 25 to 30 diverse representatives from the UAS and manned aviation industries, the federal government, and other stakeholders. The group will advise the Department on which aircraft should be exempt from registration due to a low safety risk, including toys and certain other small UAS.
The task force also will explore options for a streamlined system that would make registration less burdensome for commercial UAS operators. The task force may make additional safety recommendations as it deems appropriate. Secretary Foxx directed the group to deliver its report by Nov. 20.
“Registering unmanned aircraft will help build a culture of accountability and responsibility, especially with new users who have no experience operating in the U.S. aviation system,” Foxx said.
“It will help protect public safety in the air and on the ground.” Every day, the FAA receives reports of potentially unsafe UAS operations. Pilot sightings of UAS doubled between 2014 and 2015.
The reports ranged from incidents at major sporting events and flights near manned aircraft, to interference with wildfire operations.
“These reports signal a troubling trend,” Huerta said.
“Registration will help make sure that operators know the rules and remain accountable to the public for flying their unmanned aircraft responsibly. When they don’t fly safely, they’ll know there will be consequences.”
While the task force does its work, the FAA will continue its aggressive education and outreach efforts, including the “Know Before You Fly” campaign and “No Drone Zone” initiatives with the nation’s busiest airports.
The agency also will continue to take strong enforcement action against egregious violators. At the same time, it will continue working with stakeholders to improve safety to ensure further integration and innovation in this promising segment of aviation.
Secretary Foxx was joined by representatives from the following stakeholder groups:
The Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International Academy of Model Aircraft Air Line Pilots Association American Association of Airport Executives Helicopter Association International PrecisionHawk AirMap/ Small UAV Coalition Consumer Electronics Association
Comments
I wonder if the AMA could be in on this a little. What if in order to register a "Drone", you had to belong to the AMA. Lots of revenue could be rolling in. Is this thought a little to conspiratorial?
Regards,
David R. Boulanger
Typical government non-solution.
DOT chief: "YOU MUST REGISTER YOUR DRONE (for a nominal service fee) SO WE CAN COMBAT THE ACTIONS OF MORONS!!!"
Moron-in-question: "Like I care about your piddly regulations. I fart in your general direction."
It's no different than government having a law requiring every driver to have insurance and then the insurance companies requiring you to have uninsured motorist coverage.
This is for everybody. Recreational or commercial. Heres the latest news take on things.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/10/19/faa-to-announce-drone-re...
Regards,
David R. Boulanger
Sorry Wyatt, I wish you were right, but,
That is 100% NOT what the DOT said.
It specifically did say that it affects recreational flyers as well.
If there are or will be any limits at all on what it affects they have not been mentioned at this time.
Right now it looks like 100%, we can only hope that turns out not to be the case.
I wouldn't bank on it though.
Best,
Gary
@Gary McCray Good summary....
From my discussions with the FAA it's not only safety, but what I call hazard mitigation--in other terms, how should the insurance structure be set up...and that is tightly coupled to accountability. The AMA insurance structure doesn't fit the world of [urban] drones (even hobby drones in your backyard). Once an insurance structure is established, we all can fly--but that could result in a. registration, licensing, equipment certification, etc... This is how it works in the manned arena, they know accidents will happen and the insurance structure supports that fact (even MH370 had a 'procedure' for victims to leverage via insurance claims). One has to ask: is registration a good 1st step in addressing insurance/hazard mitigation issue?
Who came up with the 1 million drone sales forecast? How many were sold last holiday season?
Yeah, I don't think so. Good luck enforcing this. Also its hilarious that if my quadcopter shot bullets instead of photos this would have never come up.
Bureaucrats creating problems that do not exist. I will not be 'registering' anything, either my guns or my drones.
Hilarious! Pass the popcorn! The DOT? The same outfit that can't keep thirty-thousand citizens per year from being slaughtered on the deteriorated roadways of America? The same incompetent poseurs who can't see to it that a simple $8,000,000,000 bridge won't rot before its time (SF)? The same pack of loons who have presided for decades over the dismantling of any sort of usable public surface transportation in the US? Who can't keep the biggest automobile company in the world from blatantly hoodwinking them (VW)?
These DOT wingnuts have foolishly allowed the thoroughly hangdog, defeated FAA to drag them into this arena, not suspecting that it is they who will end up being tossed under the bus. Chapter one of their upcoming spectacular failure will be just defining what they think they're talking about when they say "drone." This is going to be fun to watch.
By the way, when are some of the many helicopter and fixed-wing pilots who claim to see drones filling their windshields, but who really are only seeing how worthless their jobs will soon be, going to be prosecuted for lying to public officials, filing false reports, and so on? Maybe registration will help catch some of these pathetic losers, and there are a lot of them.
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