Posted on 12/20/2015 8:35:41 PM PST by South40
The FAA finally confirmed this afternoon that model aircraft registrants' names and home addresses will be public. In an email message, the FAA stated: "Until the drone registry system is modified, the FAA will not release names and address. When the drone registry system is modified to permit public searches of registration numbers, names and addresses will be revealed through those searches."
I've been trying to get to the bottom of whether names and home addresses of model aircraft or hobby drone owners - including children as young as 13 - will be made available by the FAA to the public once the FAA's new unmanned aircraft registry goes live on Monday. It seems a simple enough question. But it took a while to get a straight answer.
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That’s crazy.
Dry run / prototype for gun registry.
Make it public???
It’s the FAA way. You can search the registry of pilots and aircraft through their public files, as well.
Yup
Exactly no difference. The FAA will be requiring operators to be certificate d airmen.
Similar to the FCC. I don't get a vanity amateur radio license plate because anyone can look up my call sign in a public database which they can't do for any other license plate number. I don't want the idiot I just passed to be able to look up my name and address from his smartphone.
As for a drone, what is the real difference between it and any other RC aircraft. I guess a drone is capable of autonomous operation (fly from X to Y) without continual ground control unlike a common RC aircraft. Anything else?
will that include ALL the federal, state and military operators?
Bwa hahahah!
Comedy gold!
Difference is almost anyone can fly a quad with a modicum of instruction - or even the willingness to tear one up first, on self-instruction.
RC aircraft require actual knowledge of flight approaching private pilot knowledge and skill.
We’ve had R/C airplanes and helicopters for 40+ years, but suddenly we need a government registry because of . . . ?
This is absurd.
I think the reason the FAA has gotten so into the quadcopter thing is that it doesn't take much skill to fly, and the performance for a relatively small amount of money can get quadcopters into portions of airspace occupied by aircraft. Another mounting security issue is that since you can fly a quadcopter from any location due to its VTOL characteristics they can be launched from anywhere, like right next to the White House.
I am not sure what the solution is for the quadcopter explosion, but I am sure the FAA won't pick the correct one
Same with air traffic controllers.
I don’t think you should have to register them unless they have GPS or are capable of autonomous flight for a certain distance. I suppose people could use them to deliver drugs or some such things.
GOOD! As a certified pilot, my info and aircraft N-number is pasted all over public domain for all to see - including thieves, terrorists, and ambulance-chasing lawyers. Why should drone pilots be any different? I've already had to dodge these "amateur/toys/whatever" more than once while on approach/departure to several airports. It's hard enough just trying to dodge birds certain times of the year. Why airport approach corridors seem to be a favorite place for people to fly these things is beyond me. I have nothing against them, but if you are going to fly them, you need to be responsible operators. That means that if you are going to fly them in the same airspace used by other aircraft, you need to know what the rules are, and follow them. That also means that if/when your craft does damage or harm to something, the authorities need to be able to find you!
Just like any other knee jerk regulation- only the law abiding will OBEY- the others will just thumb their noses at regulation.
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