Originally Posted by
skylark-flier
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In my view, the whole thing really IS simply a government exercise that will eventually nail some/most/all of us under one pretext or another, and the idiots that caused this thing in the first place will happily go on doing their idiotic stuff - unregistered, uncaught, uncaring.
And, YES - AMA sounds totally frustrated, as I am too..."
If WE don't do anything wrong We won't get caught....or nailed etc etc. I don't see how what is going on is going to get us in trouble if we're not the ones doing something wrong.
You are absolutely right that some of the people will not follow the rules and regs, and many of those have burdened us all with this knee jerk almost useless new process, but I see it as mostly benign. It could have been worse.
My hope is that when another incident occurs that brings the "drone", or MR, or even fixed wing issue into the public's eye and the perp is caught, they throw the book at him. Arrest, fined, aircraft confiscated, maybe even jail time (fact dependent)