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Drones Under 2kg May Be Set Free Under Forthcoming FAA Rules (suasnews.com)
garymortimer writes: The U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is establishing an aviation rulemaking committee with industry stakeholders to develop recommendations for a regulatory framework that would allow certain UAS to be operated over people who are not directly involved in the operation of the aircraft. The FAA is taking this action to provide a more flexible, performance-based approach for these operations than what was considered for Micro UAS. The committee will begin its work in March and issue its final report to the FAA on April 1.
You misunderstood. I wasn't referring to the subject itself (I'm a hobby RC pilot myself), but to the submitted post as you can read above.
It's based on speculation without any reference to why this speculation is justified.
There are fewer illiterates than people who can't read.
This just shows exactly how America is really messed up. There is going to be massive regulation framework for the operation of a 2 kilo drone. But the operation of a gun with massive more kinetic energy doesn't require any regulation.
Isn't that more an argument for banning drones completely? Or at least for registering and licensing each and every one of them and permitting their use only for valid commercial or scientific missions.
Speaking of which:
- How big a Molotov cocktail can a 2 kg drone carry?
- What if someone decides to liven up an otherwise dull Sunday afternoon by flying drones with a payload of black paint into car windshields on the Interstate?
- And what happens when someone flies a four and a half pound drone into a spinning jet engine?
These things have real potential to be a major nuisance and quite possibly something of a threat. You sure you want to deal with the consequences of turning them loose? Might want to think through the pros and cons ahead of time.
You can't see ANYTHING from a car, You've got to get out of the goddamned contraption and walk...Edward Abbey
It's the size of the swarm.
One cup of water is 225 grams, even if you wrapped that up in a balloon and dropped it with precision on a person from a thousand feet you're not going to cause serious injury.
A drone is not a water balloon. It is a rigid body.
And a "drone" (drones by definition are capable of autonomous flight, almost anything below a few pounds is going to be RC only) has a far larger surface area and hence a much lower terminal velocity,
It is powered, thus capable of exceeding terminal velocity. Powered flight into ground (or face) is a thing.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
They are obviously not regulated enough when people who should not have guns get their hands on them and there are gun show loopholes around any regulations.
There is no "gun show loophole" - that's just propaganda.
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