G+_Larry Havenstein Posted May 27, 2015 Share Posted May 27, 2015 Here is a good boiled down one pager on FAA rules about UAVs You can find more info about hobby use at http://www.modelaircraft.org/ http://www.dronephotographyinfo.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/What-is-drone-photography-infographic.jpg?dc894c Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Travis Hershberger Posted May 27, 2015 Share Posted May 27, 2015 So completely out of touch with reality. You must be a licensed pilot to fly a small drone commercially? Good luck with that one when everyone and his sister can buy drones/quads at the corner store! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Larry Havenstein Posted May 27, 2015 Author Share Posted May 27, 2015 Yes, although they are saying they are going to work up a new license for it without real aircraft flight time according to their grand plan. I think they want flight schooling so people know rules and regs along with weather knowlege. Most people figure out they need it once they get approached by the FAA when they have posted on Youtube and it went viral. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Larry Havenstein Posted May 27, 2015 Author Share Posted May 27, 2015 That brings up a major question the AMA has about if model aviators who do reviews in magazines and get paid for them are considered commercial UAV pilots. FAA hasn't answered that one yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Larry Havenstein Posted May 27, 2015 Author Share Posted May 27, 2015 Suppose technically Padre and Brian in that limbo field too since they technically do have paid involvement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Travis Hershberger Posted May 27, 2015 Share Posted May 27, 2015 Larry Havenstein Nope, it's not a grey area at all. According to the FAA Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ and Angry Hippo should be commercial (at least for the flights they've used for the show.) That's mostly what's making the current rules nothing other than insane. Officially a farmer couldn't fly a drone over his fields to do field surveys because they get a "financial gain". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Larry Havenstein Posted May 27, 2015 Author Share Posted May 27, 2015 Well if they only post flying indoors then FAA rules don't apply. So far the rules aren't fully official. Many are taking them as such. But if they stay as posted in the discussion phase they will be later this year. Where the grey area is in effect is if flight is under 400 feet. Above that there is no grey area and you must have a license. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Ben Reese Posted May 28, 2015 Share Posted May 28, 2015 Wayne Hobbins?, you can't just pick up a MQ-9 at your local Army Surplus store? Weird... Must be a Kansas thing then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Mick Carson Posted May 28, 2015 Share Posted May 28, 2015 What? Now they're called sUAS? What are they going to call these Quadrotors next? First it was called Multirotors, then Quadcopters and with the arrival of 6 or more rotors it was either called Multirotors or Octocopters. Then to make the model look mean and nasty they simply decided to call it a drone, even though drone is not even a name but a word. However, due to the success and popularity of that flying killing machine called Predator used for 'supposedly unmanned' missions and was called a drone when in fact it is neither a drone nor unmanned because the Predator is still controlled by military personnels behind computers with the help of GPS assisted software, people now have the sick obsession of calling a flying model a drone. How can you call something a drone when drone is just a stupid word that means other words like buzz, hum, whirl, etc. Would you want to call your son 'It' even though 'it' is just a word that means many things? Is 'It' a name? Is 'drone' a name? People seem to have an insanity streak in themselves that they have to call a model a name that is just a word, as in, "That jackhammer outside is droning our conversation". That is where drone falls into, and not into this, "That drone is so annoying, it's been all day and it's doing my head in". This is where a listener is confused on what the talker was talking about, what drone, a swarm of bees or what, and has to ask what the talker meant. And so the talker has to repeat/correct the conversation, "No, I was talking about Quadcopters...", and the listener would have argued on, "Then why didn't you say a Quadcopter in the first place? " And now here is yet another equally confusing name, sUAS. What other names are they going to call these RC models, probably UFO? It just pathetic. ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Mick Carson Posted May 28, 2015 Share Posted May 28, 2015 Larry Havenstein? Does the 'grey area' mean under the cloud or under a layer of pollution (smog)?? Since clouds and smog are sort of grey in color, I though it's best to ask than act ignorant in this field. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Larry Havenstein Posted May 29, 2015 Author Share Posted May 29, 2015 I haven't seen any MQ-9s for sale here in Kansas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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