U.S. Will Require Drones to Be Registered

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U.S. Will Require Drones to Be Registered
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The federal government will announce a new plan requiring anyone buying a drone to register the device with the U.S. Department of Transportation, NBC news has learned.
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The government has been concerned about the rise in close calls between unmanned drones and aircraft flying into and out of some of the nation’s biggest airports. The plan is expected to be announced Monday.
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In July, there was a dangerously close encounter between a drone and a passenger jet with 159 people aboard setting up to land at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport.
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The unmanned aerial vehicle was just 100 feet away from the passenger jet at an altitude of 1,700 feet; normal safe separation distance is between aircraft is at least 1,000 feet.
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Private drones were also blamed for hampering aerial firefighting efforts over a California blaze in July.
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Makes sense to me.
 
Next thing we know the government will be banning mounting guns and bombs on private drones, the horror.
 
Good, these things need to be regulated. Imagine the crimes that could be caused by these machines…
 
Iv been expecting this for a while,
Governments are slowly catching up with this highly Dangerous technology
 
Drones are a useful technology, but there is all kinds of abuses that can arise from the way that they are used.
 
I can see this applying to new drones sold past a certain date, but how are they going to regulate the 100s of 1000s already in private ownership?

How will they regulate people who buy drone parts and build one from scratch, quite a few places sell all the parts needed to build one?

Registration is a nice idea on paper, but not really possible.
 
mikekle said:
I can see this applying to new drones sold past a certain date, but how are they going to regulate the 100s of 1000s already in private ownership?

How will they regulate people who buy drone parts and build one from scratch, quite a few places sell all the parts needed to build one?

Registration is a nice idea on paper, but not really possible.
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Yes , very true, but like Guns, how do you stop people having them if they really want one
 
phil_at_dayboro said:
Yes , very true, but like Guns, how do you stop people having them if they really want one
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Just like guns…you cant.

Another thing, this does not address someone hacking into a drone, thus giving anyone control of that drone.

Im actually very surprised someone, somewhere has not used a drone to commit a crime, it seems odd that has not happened yet, I kind of wonder if it has and they do not report the incidents.
 
…what about remote control helicopters though? People have been using those as hobby toys for like decades now. I mean, what’s considered a drone anyways?
 
mikekle said:
Im actually very surprised someone, somewhere has not used a drone to commit a crime, it seems odd that has not happened yet, I kind of wonder if it has and they do not report the incidents.
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I think drones might be over-hyped, like the segway was.
 
I am not surprised. Drones have interfered with firefighting as well as airplanes. Drones are kind of expensive right now but if they were cheap enough, hmm, a criminal could use them for surveillance. I clean a house one day a week and the grandmother claimed a drone had been flying around the outside of the house. 😛 Maybe it detected the dog and left:p
 
Landon_Caeli said:
…what about remote control helicopters though? People have been using those as hobby toys for like decades now. I mean, what’s considered a drone anyways?
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I was thinking the same about remote control planes, there’s a group that meets to fly them at a park not far from here.
Drones have more capabilities but whatever regulations or guidelines for remote-contolled should be a good place to start.
 
didymus said:
I was thinking the same about remote control planes, there’s a group that meets to fly them at a park not far from here.
Drones have more capabilities but whatever regulations or guidelines for remote-contolled should be a good place to start.
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Not sure what the rules are now, but back in the 80’s, you had to have insurance and some kind of registration/permit to fly the remote control planes - at least here. (a relative of mine use to do this). It was fairly simply and cheap, but at least they knew what plane belonged to whom and if it crashed/caused damage, there was insurance to cover the liability. 🤷
 
MSSheBear said:
I am not surprised. Drones have interfered with firefighting as well as airplanes. Drones are kind of expensive right now but if they were cheap enough, hmm, a criminal could use them for surveillance. I clean a house one day a week and the grandmother claimed a drone had been flying around the outside of the house. 😛 Maybe it detected the dog and left:p
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I saw drones for sale at our local Sams club for $100., they are smaller, but still have video recorders on them, could easily be rigged to carry a weapon or explosive device as well.

I imagine the ‘peeping toms’ love these things, go to any window, on any floor of any building and get video of whats going inside, with no one ever being able to tell who was at the controls…crazy!
 
mikekle said:
I saw drones for sale at our local Sams club for $100., they are smaller, but still have video recorders on them, could easily be rigged to carry a weapon or explosive device as well.

I imagine the ‘peeping toms’ love these things, go to any window, on any floor of any building and get video of whats going inside, with no one ever being able to tell who was at the controls…crazy!
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Wasn’t there a story fairly recently about a father who beat up neighbors who he thought were using a drone to spy on his teenage daughter?

As someone who flies regularly out of NY’s airports, I’m afraid of what one of these things could do to a commercial airplane. There have been stories about them being spotted near JFK.
 
DeniseNY said:
Wasn’t there a story fairly recently about a father who beat up neighbors who he thought were using a drone to spy on his teenage daughter?

As someone who flies regularly out of NY’s airports, I’m afraid of what one of these things could do to a commercial airplane. There have been stories about them being spotted near JFK.
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Yes, that was a couple months ago, thats just one event too, cant imagine how many similar things happen, but they dont see the drone, or it flies away before they do do anything.

I also saw they have some VERY tiny drones now, like the size of a house fly, they are somewhat expensive, but in a criminals hands, they could get away with quite a bit, fly it into a bank, watch as codes are entered, find out details about the layout, see the security in place, etc. its limitless what they could do.
 
Registration is a good first step… But there needs to be a class on different types of airspace, and requirements to enter them. Federal law already requires model aircraft/drone owners to follow the national airspace rules, but what 15 year old actually knows the difference between Class D and class E airspace, or has a radio to get clearance to enter the class D. As a pilot, these things scare the **** out of me. I’ve been on short final to land at our local airport and looked out the window to see a small toy drone about 20 feet off the nose of my plane. I don’t want to think about what would happen if I were to strike it with my prop. Being about 200 feet off the ground, I wouldn’t have a lot of room to react. Our airspace by the way, requires a clearance from Air Traffic Control to enter it.
 
I have always wondered what the hype over drones was, and why it is just now becoming an issue. It seems to me that RC planes and helicopters have been around for quite a while.
 
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