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Drone Registration Question

Carol HazlettCarol Hazlett Posts: 312
edited 2016-04-27 16:12 in General Discussion
When you register a drone does it cover all the drones you own or do you have to register each one separately? I only have a Parrot AR Drone but am looking to buy an Elev-8.

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  • abecedarianabecedarian Posts: 312
    You register and are supposed to indicate your registration on all of your drones.
  • JasonDorieJasonDorie Posts: 1,930
    From their FAQ:

    Q30. If I own multiple drones, do I have to register them all?
    A. No. You may register once and apply the same registration number to all your UAS.

    Hobby use does not require registration of individual craft. Also, apparently since I'm not a US citizen I'm unable to register.

    I've also been told that there will likely be legal challenges to this. One, congress already stated to the AMA that it did not intend to regulate model aircraft, like remote controlled planes. It has never required this in the past, and they apparently made a statement of intent to the AMA that they were exempting these craft, but appear to have reneged on this.

    The current requirement is a little odd because it's like an intent to enforce, and there's supposed to be a public comment period, but they decided to forego that so they'd make the Christmas drone rush (they expect a lot of drone gifts this year). There's some question as to whether they have the legal authority to bypass that process.

    It has also come out that the information about pilot name & address will be publicly accessible, which most oppose. On both of these points there are a number of organizations talking about legal action, so it might be worth holding off on registration. It's not due for 60 days anyway (Feb 19th).
  • JasonDorieJasonDorie Posts: 1,930
    A little more detail:
    http://hackaday.com/2015/12/21/heres-the-reason-the-faas-drone-registration-system-doesnt-make-sense/
  • PublisonPublison Posts: 12,366
    I'm OK with registration, but I am holding off because of the public accessibility of data concept.
  • Carol HazlettCarol Hazlett Posts: 312
    I have tried all morning to register my drone but the website does not seem to be working. I successfully made an account but after that the website will not let you log in to register your drone.
  • Carol HazlettCarol Hazlett Posts: 312
    Well, the site does work, my brain is what is not working. I kept clicking on the left side of the login box to get a cursor without success. It turns out you have to click in the middle of the box to get the cursor! My bad. I am registered now.
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    Completed application forms are to be delivered by drone.

    What the hell is a "drone" anyway?

    I though a "drone" was one of those little remote control, or autonomous, bombers you use to bomb far away people without having to feel guilty about it.

    I can't think of my model aircraft or quadcopters as "drones"
  • RDL2004RDL2004 Posts: 2,554


    I always thought drone was a weird word to use for an unmanned aircraft. I wonder when it was first used for that? Maybe derived from drudge ?


    Definition of drone

    1 : a stingless male bee (as of the honeybee) that has the role of mating with the queen and does not gather nectar or pollen

    2 : one that lives on the labors of others : parasite

    3 : an unmanned aircraft or ship guided by remote control or onboard computers

    4 : drudge
  • Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) Posts: 23,514
    I think the original use of "drone" was simply short for "target drone," a dummy ship or plane used by the military for artillery practice.

    -Phil
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    Yes, Phil you nailed it. "target drone". From wikipedia:

    One of the earliest drones was the British DH.82 Queen Bee, operational from 1935. Its name led to the present term "drone".

    Which is a bit odd given that a drone is a stingless male bee.

    So we can use all those annoying quadcopters for target practice :)
  • xanaduxanadu Posts: 3,347
    Drone went from dumb target to military weaponry to quadcopter in less than a couple years. What a ride!
  • RDL2004RDL2004 Posts: 2,554
    Target practice! I knew they could be useful for something.
  • kwinnkwinn Posts: 8,697
    RDL2004 wrote: »
    Target practice! I knew they could be useful for something.

    Better than skeet shooting.
  • msrobotsmsrobots Posts: 3,709
    A drone is basically the only male form of bees.

    Calling it un-manned is somehow wrong. Maybe un-womaned might fit.

    @RDL2004 pointed out that (bee) drones are stingless. So targets (witch do not fight back) like @Phil said.

    But the military drones are not stingless at all. They should get called Wasps or Hornets. Not drones at all.

    Same for non-military ones. They get marketed as, and most of them are - flying video recording systems. Witch I find pretty invasive if it happens over my property. It sort of stings me, so not stingless and not drones at all.

    I wonder if all the military and police 'drone operators' also need to get registered and have to put a sticky on the aircraft?

    But shooting them out of the sky with a shotgun is waste of good equipment. Better would be to have some jammer, getting the intruder to land or crash immediately, so one could recover parts.

    It would just need to work in an area of - say - 500 feet radius. Not even constant (ideal) but just manual activated.

    Sadly I do not know anything about how to produce a device like that. Some forum member playing with tesla coils comes in my mind, but that is just the same effect like the shotgun. Waste of usable parts.

    Any takers for the technical part?

    Enjoy!

    Mike





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