Names and addresses of people who register their 'drones' will be public info...
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LoneRCRanger
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Gee, our list will be as popular as the sexual predators list and as famous. What an honor. I hope everyone that's a voter remembers this, because the US Congress has to approve such things.
Haha - I bet you're right. Some people will probably look to see which of their neighbors have "drones" and then think of those neighbors are going to invade their privacy.
I'd think it might make property values go up though since the hobby is pretty expensive.
http://amablog.modelaircraft.org/amagov/2015/12/17/hold-off-on-registering-model-aircraft/
THis is one of the reasons that the AMA is asking members to hold off on registering.
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You are required to do this to register, and you have to 'pay' 5$ to register (though it is being refunded). This may make this agreement or acknowledgement a binding agreement to follow these guidelines.
THis is one of the reasons that the AMA is asking members to hold off on registering.
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You are required to do this to register, and you have to 'pay' 5$ to register (though it is being refunded). This may make this agreement or acknowledgement a binding agreement to follow these guidelines.
Is that the actual acknowledgement page? I will not fly under the influence? Of what? I know that most people will get what this means, but this is a 'law' so they need to be specific.
*Also, I know I asked you in PM, but who is waiting to register and who is registering here? I want to register to just get it over with and to not have to worry about it, but I'm going to hold off to see what the AMA says to do.
Then there's the question of whether or not the FAA even has the legal authority to do this.
http://hackaday.com/2015/12/21/here...-drone-registration-system-doesnt-make-sense/
*Also, I know I asked you in PM, but who is waiting to register and who is registering here? I want to register to just get it over with and to not have to worry about it, but I'm going to hold off to see what the AMA says to do.
Then there's the question of whether or not the FAA even has the legal authority to do this.
http://hackaday.com/2015/12/21/here...-drone-registration-system-doesnt-make-sense/
Hahahaha, yeah, I took that screen shot when I was checking out the registration process, that page is what stopped me from going forward.
Hopefully the AMA works it out so you don't need to. Although it seems like what they are fighting for is that AMA members should not have to register on the grounds that they are already members of an organization like the AMA and that they should be able to use their AMA ID to identify their models (like they already suggest you do anyway). So if you're not a member of the AMA, it probably won't matter what they end up getting the FAA to do because it is unlikely that the whole thing will be overturned by their efforts.
Something interesting to think about though is how much this FAA rule would actually benefit the AMA if they can get it modified to where AMA membership can exempt you from the FAA registration process. This would certainly increase both awareness of the AMA for new pilots as well as boost registrations across the board since a lot of people won't want their info publicly searchable in the FAA database.
When you start thinking of this from a political point of view, it would be counter-intuitive for the AMA to fight the registration requirement to have it overturned completely. They seem to be (and I would too if I were them) fighting to exempt their members, which would end up meaning that the general registration requirement would be very good for them as an organization since it would add to the benefits of becoming an AMA member.
If you really read into their messages, they're more along the lines of: this is illegal, so our members should be exempt. Whereas a lot of articles written are simply saying it's illegal so it should be overturned. Again, I'm an AMA member and if I were the AMA leadership team, I would play the same angle, but it's undeniable that it would be more beneficial if the registration requirement sticks and AMA gets an exemption than if it was overturned completely - which is probably the more "right thing to do" if it is technically illegal.
It's one of those things where you're not doing anything wrong, so why not just comply and move on... versus: you're not doing anything wrong, so why should you allow the government to illegally overstep their authority and slowly eat away at your freedom?
The one thing that is certain is that bad guys don't follow rules. If they have to self register and self label their UAV, they won't. If frames start coming with serial numbers, they will scrape them off before they do something bad.
In the end, there is only one solution and that is to educate those with good intentions and defend against those with bad intentions. What the government tends to do though is cripple good people with the burden of useless laws and end up creating a minefield of regulation that turns just about everyone into an unintentional law breaker.
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haha, I agree 101% with that, though I believe that if the AMA fails then their membership may suffer, and that getting this overturned as it is a very unconstitutional method of making rules and regulations as the FAA redefined aircraft after it was defined in by congress, and used that to slip past the regulation of model aircraft, then on top of that you have to agree to terms before you can fulfill your registration requirement hahahaha. I believe that what they did was wrong, but if it got overturned the public would want someone to to regulate us, so then either the FAA gets authority or some other agency will be to worry about. Dammed if you do, dammed if you don't.