Originally Posted by
HoundDog
I suggested that exact same thing over a year ago and almost got lynched. Why do people protest so when like thinking people are trying to weed out the UNSAFE Drone people giving all of us responsible flyers a bad name. Sure things have quited down since. The FAA has relented some and NON commercial R/C flying isn't subject to all the unnecessary rules and regs for Recreational R/Cers. It won't take much to have the FAA get a bee in their bonnet again. Of course all AMA members would be EXEMPT From this "TEST" by default because just buying to the AMA makes U much smarter than the average DRONE flyer.. oooooooooooooH this could cause a ruccues again. Sorry "NOT".
Yeah, you can see the sarcastic comment that was already posted.
As we've seen from a rather prominent recent discussion on handling of email, the government is going to have to prove that you knew what you were and were not allowed to do. If you don't take any sort of test saying you knew what the rules were, it's awful difficult to hold you accountable for doing something in violation of rules they can't prove that you knew.
It's ironic that the sUAS fliers with the largest operational envelope (