tried to register with FAA

[WintrSol]

RE: tried to register with FAA

I use the Avery 5160 labels; same size, but mine are for LASER printers. OpenOffice Writer has a built-in template for them and, I assume, MSWord.

[Grossman56]

RE: tried to register with FAA

I bit the bullet on it as well, I didn't want the Gov't getting any more money out of me, especially for something so dumb.
Doesn't say anywhere about the size of the number, so how small can I make it??
Oh very, very small, believe you me!!

Grossman56

[boomer108]

RE: tried to register with FAA

Hey everyone!

  I finally gave in and registered with the FAA. I didn't  want to be a test case when I went flying besides, they won't get five dollars out of me for now and I had a chance to create a rather non politically correct password the FAA would just love if they saw it  .  :D

Roy B.
 

[fhhuber]

RE: tried to register with FAA

I'd rather create a rather politically incorrect username that the FAA would be sure to see...

[Dewey H Lee]

RE: tried to register with FAA

Hey folks. I finally got regestered myself with much trouble. All I have to get on line with right now is my Android phone. After several attempts to register because I kept get a password error I called them. All they done was to have me reset my password again and again. Ran out of passwords. Finally after calling them again submitting another trouble ticket I ask a friend to go on his computer and see if he could access my account. Came right up. He's a big time computer geek and said it was a browser thing. Don't know.
While having a conversation with the people on the FAA help desk I ask did they think this was really going to stop the people that are responsible for all of this. I thought he was going to die laughing. In a nutshell he said that people that are responsible will be responsible and the others will just keep on doing as they please.
I asked about enforcement and was told they had not even thought all the way through that as of yet on there level. Whatever that means. Just thought I would share what I had been told.

[Grossman56]

RE: tried to register with FAA

so, are we to believe that the local County Mounties are running around with lists of our FAA numbers?
Or that we have so many FAA people with nothing better to do than to check out the kid in the playground with his tiny helicopter R/C to make sure he has a number on it?

This, my friends, I have to see!

What's to stop you from putting any number on your plane, AMA or not.  That's if they even ever show up. 
And what about private property? 
This will be a big nonevent is my prediction.
Oh yeah, will someone please remind me to put my FAA number in my plane, sometime during the next three years will be fine!

Grossman56

[Dewey H Lee]

RE: tried to register with FAA

so, are we to believe that the local County Mounties are running around with lists of our FAA numbers?
Or that we have so many FAA people with nothing better to do than to check out the kid in the playground with his tiny helicopter R/C to make sure he has a number on it?

This, my friends, I have to see!

What's to stop you from putting any number on your plane, AMA or not.  That's if they even ever show up. 
And what about private property? 
This will be a big nonevent is my prediction.
Oh yeah, will someone please remind me to put my FAA number in my plane, sometime during the next three years will be fine!

Grossman56

It is hard to take it seriously when it doesn't seem they do either. Hey pull over! Need to check your number! What no number. You in a heap of trouble boy. :D

[Flygirl]

RE: tried to register with FAA

My son is a police officer in the Washington DC area and he also flies fixed wing and multirotor. He said no one has told them about looking out for RC aircraft...

[XF-15DCC]

RE: tried to register with FAA

My son is a police officer in the Washington DC area and he also flies fixed wing and multirotor. He said no one has told them about looking out for RC aircraft...

I would be interested to hear what is said when and if they (Police) get a briefing on this. Keep us posted!

Kevin

[Flygirl]

RE: tried to register with FAA

My son is a police officer in the Washington DC area and he also flies fixed wing and multirotor. He said no one has told them about looking out for RC aircraft...

I would be interested to hear what is said when and if they (Police) get a briefing on this. Keep us posted!

Kevin

Will do Kevin!

[Capt. Crunch]

RE: tried to register with FAA

I ran into the county sheriff at the gas station a few days ago.  We know each other and he has stopped to watch me fly my fixed wings when he is out on patrol. As we were talking, he said "Good thing you don't fly drones. Sounds like those guys have to jump through some hoops to be able to fly them."  I didn't feel like explaining that a fixed wing is also a "drone" so I just said- Yeah good thing.:)

[Flygirl]

RE: tried to register with FAA

I ran into the county sheriff at the gas station a few days ago.  We know each other and he has stopped to watch me fly my fixed wings when he is out on patrol. As we were talking, he said "Good thing you don't fly drones. Sounds like those guys have to jump through some hoops to be able to fly them."  I didn't feel like explaining that a fixed wing is also a "drone" so I just said- Yeah good thing.:)

LOL!!!! It is a PITA to explain this stuff... :)

[OV10]

RE: tried to register with FAA

Hello Pilots,
Then there is someone like me who has no issue with speaking out and trying to educate the less informed so as to start the fire on dispelling the misinformation that is rampaging out there. I definitely want people to know that the fixed wing RC platform is a different animal from the "drones". The biggest city in my neck of the woods(Binghamton,NY) is having an open public forum tomorrow on Drones which is sponsored by the Broome County Dept of Aviation and as an officer of our RC club it is very important to me that the discussion doesn't become a lopsided event so I will be attending even though I don't own an airframe with more than 2 motors. Stuff like that can get out of hand very easily whereas last month Albany almost banned all RC aircraft from flying in the capital district because of the "quad" perception. Had it not been for the efforts of a lot of AMA members along with AMA's District 2 VP caucusing the State legislators to rethink their narrow views they had of RC modeling it would have happened and that my friends is not a good thing because as you know things like that will snowball from one city to the next and then where is our sport going to be. I know that it is a PITA but if you don't start standing with your convictions, then who knows were we will be able to have fun flying in a couple years from now. 
Best regards, 

[Capt. Crunch]

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Hi Charlie. I understand what your saying and its frustrating that the general public associates drones only being multirotors "quads". All quads are drones but not all drones are quads. I had hoped the AMA would have tried to separate drones into categories for the FAA and then deal with the troublesome category. But that was wishfull thinking. I have nothing against people flying quads but the truth is irresponsible people flying quads started the problem.
I just found it unreal that the person (law enforcement) that should probably know about it, didn't have a clue.

Its going to be an uphill battle to correct the confusion the media started

[Konrad]

RE: tried to register with FAA

The FAA claims that they had concerns about RC flight way back in 1981 way before the advent of quads.

http://www.hobbysquawk.com/Thread-Leaving?pid=15982#pid15982

All the best,
Konrad

[Flygirl]

RE: tried to register with FAA

Go get them Charlie... 

And if anyone asks, as far as quads, it's not the quad, it's the lone wolf yahoos that caused the problems. There are plenty --many-- responsible multirotor fliers that are AMA members like myself.

[OV10]

RE: tried to register with FAA

I hear you Konrad about the FAA and it's agenda all the way back 35 years ago but they really aren't whom I'm concerned about.
Like Crunch just pointed out, we at a national level are going to have uninformed law enforcement as well as politicians who see only the slanted views publicized by the uneducated media and then these same public servants get all nervous and jerky about all this hyped up stuff on the evening news. Our local CBS news had a little 4 minute report about this upcoming forum I mentioned and reported the County Executive of the legislators saying they were aware of 50 registered drones in the county. REALLY...... that FAA data base is not accessible by local government agency's. Again more misinformation by politicians in order to serve what ever agenda. I think our concerns as a modeling community is not with the FAA but more with the local level of governance. As I said earlier, a bullet was dodged just 150 mi NE of me in Albany but I don't believe for one moment that it won't happen in another town or city in the near future........which one of you could be next?? (I know Lauren is living in the crush of the DC expanded zone...so sad)
If you love the child in you that comes out from flying your model, then embrace that passion by educating the uninformed.
Some of you may think that I'm on a soapbox, maybe yeah, but that's what happens when you survive 5 different cancers and have rediscovered the boy in myself with my passion for RC again and THEY aren't taking that away from me.
Best regards,  

[PappaBear]

RE: tried to register with FAA

Go get them Charlie... 

And if anyone asks, as far as quads, it's not the quad, it's the lone wolf yahoos that caused the problems. There are plenty --many-- responsible multirotor fliers that are AMA members like myself.

You are 100% right Lauren.

Martin.

[PappaBear]

RE: tried to register with FAA

The FAA claim that 300,000 people have registered there UAVs, Drones, Models with them in the last 30 days. This is less than half the number of quadcopter's  sold in the last 12 months, the official figure is 700,000 sold.  

I believe the AMA has around 182,000 members, but I have no idea how many have registered with the FAA.  That means some where there is still a considerable number who have not registered. I would also say there are a number who are ignorant  of the fact they have to register. The irresponsible  people won't register anyway.

Martin.

[Flygirl]

RE: tried to register with FAA

The FAA claim that 300,000 people have registered there UAVs, Drones, Models with them in the last 30 days. This is less than half the number of quadcopter's  sold in the last 12 months, the official figure is 700,000 sold.  

I believe the AMA has around 182,000 members, but I have no idea how many have registered with the FAA.  That means some where there is still a considerable number who have not registered. I would also say there are a number who are ignorant  of the fact they have to register. The irresponsible  people won't register anyway.

Martin.

Sad but true Martin! I wonder how many of those 700.000 sold are of the toy variety? I would love to know that...