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FAA Drone Deadline


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RC owners must register and will be given a number that must be on the planes, etc. over .55 oz. This is not an N number and can be put anywhere on the device that can be seen without using tools to access it.

The registration begins Dec 21 and is free until Jan. 20, 2016 after which it will be $5.

Any UAS over 55 lbs. must send in a form rather than use the online registration and commercial use has a different process.

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A few things will counter much of the non-compliance. Stores are already including the info during sales (I think there will soon be a need to have a registration number before purchase), and there was an article in the newspaper.

Confiscation for not registering is likely, and for those of us that are serious about RC the AMA will likely require it.

The month of free registration will get a lot of folks in, and the first civil case of damage that shows no registration will go badly for the UAS owner.

Of course there is no guarantee, and the FAA may decide to use their teeth if it becomes an issue. If you read the ruling document there were much more stringent procedures proposed that the FAA rejected, but they could go that direction.

A lot of young people get exposed to flight principles via R/C. So I hope you are pulling for successful, and not onerous, regulation for the sake of safety.

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In 2012 Congress mandated that the FAA not impose any rules on model aircraft used for hobby purposes. This new rule seems to be going against that mandate. If this is how the FAA deals with mandates from Congress the outcome of PBOR2 will be interesting.

If they were a part of an organized R/C community.

This may not be settled, but I will register.

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