Info Rogue Drones: Transportation Agency Considers Owner Registration

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    Registration of drones in the USA. This could extend into Australia. Maybe we would have to register our helicopters as well. Excerpt follows...


    Washington (CNN)Drone owners may want to listen up Monday. The Department of Transportation plans to announce the formation of a task force on drones.

    It will tackle the creation of a registration process for people who buy them and follows an announcement by aviation officials that technology is in the works that would identify operators of rogue drones.

    Drones going where they shouldn't have run afoul with regulators -- zipping too close to airline flights, crashing at sporting events and hindering aerial wildfire extinguishing operations while they buzz around taking video of the flames.

    If drones are registered, they could be traced back to people who bought them, then remote pilots might act more responsibly, an official with knowledge of Monday's announcement said.

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    http://edition.cnn.com/2015/10/17/us/dot-drone-task-force/
     
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    1. Mark Mickels

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      Yep, it's gotten out of hand over here. As I see it, multi rotors are too easy to fly and therefore attract "dipsticks" and those folks have no common sense.
       
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      So whats the solution @Mark Mickels. I mean its true that drones can possess a safety and privacy risk and its almost impossible to track down. I dont know how you could feasibly register a drone. I mean they are so cheap to buy, defined as a toy. How do you track the person flying it? Solicitors are going to love this i am sure.
       
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    3. Mark Mickels

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      Don't have a solution at this moment, but I'm sure this will have implications for us all.
       
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      They will probably use numbered registration stickers of some sort and base the registration criteria on size, power, and Tx range. It could be as simple as point-of-sale registration by serial number.
       
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    5. smakmeharder

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      A whole new industry could be formed out of registering drones and fining those people flying unregistered drones....
       
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      It's America...
      "OK boys, we have some drones over the wildfire making it dangerous for our aerial appliances... weapons free"
      Simon
       
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      I'll admit there is a minority of idiots and people that otherwise have no common sense up here. There was one that was caught this week trying to smuggle contraband into a prison with a drone. There will always be those few idiots that make things difficult for the sensible majority. It's a fact of modern life.
       
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