Originally Posted by
jester_s1
This stuff won't happen. For one, those rules would simply be unenforceable. #1-3 would create a huge bottleneck and immense expense. #4 is utterly pointless. And #5 would be impossible to monitor and enforce. It would be easy for clubs to register, but there's no way to police every soccer field where guys fly planes or nearly every spot on the planet where drones can take off and land. Second, there's no benefit. 3rd, drone pilots have become a significant demographic with some lobbying power, and this would effectively kill that hobby altogether. We may have something to worry about from other discussions at the FAA, but I don't think this particular set of ideas is going to be an issue.
I would tend to agree that these ideas are probably not extremely likely to come to pass however... it is the federal government we are talking about... unenforceable... the government has many many unenforceable regulations, rules and laws. Immense expense... since when has the government ever been concerned with spending huge amounts of our tax dollars on stupid idiotic things? Impossible to monitor... again, you are expecting common sense from our government?
I certainly hope you are right and common sense prevails but I have seen no reason to expect that to be the case!