Originally Posted by
tedsander
The FAA numbers make a distinction between "drones" and "pilots". Are you noting that they are assuming each sUAS registrant only has one "drone"? What then is a "pilot" - part 107 registrants?
Seems to me that the number of actual pilots reported is actually less than the number of AMA members...which I would suspect is true.
(I'm just going by this page:
https://www.faa.gov/uas/resources/by_the_numbers/ , which has no information as to where the numbers came from). Is there a better source on-line?
I was looking at recreational registrations, which is a ONE OPERATOR to many drones. So that 800,000 number represents recreational registrations, which is representation of recreational operators that are NOT members of AMA. Download "Registrations-City-State-Country-Count-2019Q3Q4.xlsx" from the site appended below. Do a pivot table on 336 worksheet, and select only US for the country. You'll see there are 1,017,829 recreational registrations in the US. Each represents ONE operator.
Here's the link to recreational sUAS registrations:
https://www.faa.gov/foia/electronic_...room/#geo_list