Originally Posted by
Duncman
The problem with your request, which by the way a lot of us are asking, is that there is as many individual definitions as there people out there. Personally I would like to see Fixed Wing separated from Rotary or Multi Rotor but the helicopter guys might have something to say about that and what about the serious MR owners that abide by the rules. It is more a behavioral problem than an inanimate definition.
I agree on the behavior problem comment; and that is exactly what laws are made for (good or bad). Gun violence is a behavior problem as well; perfect example, and probably all of us know what is going on legislatively on that front (good or bad). Defining a drone is analogous to defining an "assault rifle" in their respective arguments.
To define a drone though a good starting point might be to look at anything that has VTOL capability and then find a way to carve out the traditional helicopter guys. I bet 95% of the behavior issues lie with devices that a VTOL definition captures.
It's not like anyone is going to have a tail mounted camera on a 100cc Yak and hover over their neighbors pool.
