A VERY IMPORTANT WAKEUP CALL ABOUT NEW FAA REGULATIONS

[Papa Echo]

The FAA has published a Notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) about the upcoming Remote Identification of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (RID of UAS). It’s a 319 page long horror story. You can find it here: https://www.federalregister.gov/doc...e-identification-of-unmanned-aircraft-systems
You can download the PDF under “Printed version”.

Maybe some of you can live with the restrictions of RID, but there is one more important point for the quadcopter community. You have to throw all your quadcopters above 250g (0.55 lbs) into the trash!!! You are not allowed to fly them any longer if this NPRM goes into effect.

If you don’t believe it, read the NPRM chapter XIII (page 150). The problem is that the typical quadcopter that we are flying today does not comply with the new rules. You have to buy new quadcopters. If you buy a kit, no modifications are allowed. If you think you can build an Amateur-built UAS than you need to know that it is almost impossible to fulfill the rules and it is very expansive.

We need to fight this NPRM. Get active now and reply to the FAA. And write your representatives in Congress and Senate.

 

[LoneRCRanger]

As with most government regulations, enforcement will be a highly irregular effort. Local police and sheriff departments are not going to make it a priority and will only look at complaints from credible, local citizens. That would be a major undertaking that these departments do not have the staff to support. We'll all just have to be more prudent as to where we fly our UAS, unlike the idiots that were flying a flight wing of drones, over Colorado, at night. The government has no idea who's behind that