The AMA finally got what they had coming to them! The AMA tried to make the drone owners the scape goats, and tried to convince the FAA that drone owners should all be flying under AMA Rules, and even offered to be the registration entity, all to avoid having to register their AMA aircraft with the FAA. The FAA not only said no, but hell no, and you have to register too!
Sorry, I thought you were.
Actually, he still does have to register before he can fly, but he can't because he wouldn't be able to, so he won't. Great system, eh?
True everything doesn't but when you take the same way to work in the same truck at 5 a.m. and get stopped by the same guy(not white btw) trust me I know it's not race. And the Bills still find ways to lose but I'm a Steelers fan.
Every AMA member now has to register their aircraft, too! The registration is not limited to drones only. The AMA flyers now will finally be held fully accountable, too. Their 50 year free ride is over!
This is just the first step, just like DJI locking down the SDK for all the developers to the same DJI GO restrictions, and eliminating firmware rollbacks!
There were little to no problems with AMA flyers (I assume you mean fixed wing) for them to be accountable for. It wasn't until the hobby got so cheap and easy even a caveman can do it that the skies got so unfriendly. And those "AMA guys" have been flying before you were born so thats saying something.Every AMA member now has to register their aircraft, too! The registration is not limited to drones only. The AMA flyers now will finally be held fully accountable, too. Their 50 year free ride is over!
Agreed. However the recent solicitations for AMA membership among drone owners, based upon the free insurance were unconscionable, as the AMA was secretly lobbying the FAA in all the publicly released comments to sell all drone owners down the river, to protect their own interests. It backfired on them, and I am glad it did! Schadenfreude!
Those are the maximum fines allowed under FAA Regs for real airplane violations. They currently make no distinction among different aircraft, and are trying to scare everyone with the statutory maximums for the most egregious of real pilots flying real airplanes! Warning letters or a request to register are the likely sanctions, unless you were flying recklessly, in which case they already have laws against even hobbyists flying recklessly without registration!
I've decided to not register. Wrote a protest note to the FAA regulations site. Signed it "Bob Dole"
and when they then take a photo of the registration number and look it up on the public FAA database and obtain your name and home address, and come looking for you, you'll have no one but yourself to blame, if you register!
You are missing the point. There is nothing to prevent anyone from putting someone else's reg # in their battery compartment, and the list of all registration numbers will be publicly searchable by the public on the FAA website for anyone to look up! The devil is in the details!
I'll bet you thought the AMA was your friend in this debacle! Read what their lobbyists tried to convince the FAA to do to us, while they tried to save their own skin! FAA told them that they now have to register with the FAA, too! Payback is a b*tch!
Yeah, but are you required to present it to every a-hole drone hater who interrupts you while flying, or only a law enforcement officer?
