Granpooba

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Just fly it like you stole it .......... LOL

Sport_Pilot

DJI drones are BLOS so you need a spotter.

BarracudaHockey

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Really depends on which one and how you're flying it.

Either way they are over .5 lbs so the pilot/owner needs to be registered.

lonerwold1

Excuse my ignorance, but what do you mean by a spotter ? and what about drones other than the DJI, like the small one here

http://droneswithcamera.site/best-mi...e-with-camera/

HoundDog

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Originally Posted by HoundDog
Originally Posted by lonerwold1
What about drones with big size ? do you know the rules on that ??

I am talking about drones like DJI Phantom 3

Who/Where does it says U need a spotter for a Drone ... My big TF P-47 is a drone so is my Eflight 2 pound F4U and who says i need a spotter for these Drones?
Just fly Like U always did keep out of the way and all will be OK.
[QUOTE=Granpooba;12215076]Just fly it like you stole it .......... LOL

Zacally there GP glad at least one person makes sense, besides of course ME.

HoundDog

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Originally Posted by lonerwold1
What about drones with big size ? do you know the rules on that ??

I am talking about drones like DJI Phantom 3




Originally Posted by Sport_Pilot
Per FAA rules I don't think any of the DJI drones are legal without a spotter.




In this case a
spotter is a person Must be an accomplished pilot DRONE FLYER that watches your DRONE while U are flying FPV and can not see your DRONE because U are either wearing goggles or are heads ddown watching a screen to fly your DRONE as if U were In it. Hope thais helps Do U Belong to an AMA chartered club? Any have an AWESOME DAY.

rgburrill

Horse crap. If you never fly it FPV you do not need a spotter. Spotters are required ANYTIME YOU FLY FPV. And that means with a multirotor, a P51, a trainer or a glider. It's using FPV that requires using a spotter.

porcia83

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http://www.businessinsider.com/heres...lations-2016-5

SunDevilPilot

Here is all our private info (Redacted by the FAA to protect our private info). Were our fears unfounded?

http://www.faa.gov/news/updates/?newsId=85548

franklin_m

So the big bad FAA posted a workbook with two worksheets: "Hobbyist" an "Non Hobbyist", each with four columns of data:
[TABLE]
[TR]
[TD="align: left"]Country[/TD]
[TD="align: left"]State / Province / Region[/TD]
[TD="align: left"]City[/TD]
[TD="align: left"]Postal Code[/TD]
[TD="align: left"]Number of Registrations
[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]

porcia83

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And?

Sport_Pilot

Horse crap yourself. That drone is flown FPV mode. Hardly ever anything but.

Sport_Pilot

Bui when the database is fully integrated into the system anybody can look it up one at a time.

franklin_m

And what do you base that on? Where does it say they're going to (a) fully integrate the database, and (b) that they're going to allow "anybody can look up?"

Sport_Pilot

Eventually they will have them on this site or a similar site.

http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinqu...ion=5&PageNo=3

scottrc

I thought, gee, what a absolute waste of time and band width. Are they really serious or just that inept? I can get more detailed information by just looking for someone on Google. If they were going to integrate into the aircraft inquire database, then just do it, don't crap around and insult us, and law enforcement, with a stupid spreadsheet.

BarracudaHockey

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For anyone interested in such things I pulled a sum of all the registrations and it came out to 461433

So less than half a million and a bit over double AMA membership numbers

porcia83

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That number would seem to dispute the notion that there are "none of these out there flying". It's a safe bet there there are at least 50% more than that out there that are not registered as well.

Chris P. Bacon

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Not really sure how much useful information can be gained from the spreadsheet, but if they were forced to release it due to a public records request then a spreadsheet export would be the fastest way to do. it. Surprised the web interface isn't available yet.

Chris P. Bacon

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I thought lookup was only going to be based on FAA ID number, but I haven't see anywhere where it states this isn't happening. Several other government databases are fully searchable so I hope they do it as it does not contain any SPI data.

porcia83

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Yup!

rcmiket

Wow 66 guys registered in my zip code.

Mike

rcmiket

Interesting.

Mike

hairy46

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Wow, I sure remember all these problems with the hobby before the multi rotors, wait a minute, no I don't!

porcia83

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Guess there are people flying these things after all.