Drone pilots

[Robert Zambelli]

Just heard on the news!

There are now 325,000 registered drone pilots and 320,000 private pilots.    

Bob Z.

[John Rist]

That's about $600K a year income for the FAA.  They will probably spend $2mil a year maintaining the program so we the tax payers can pic up the difference.   

[dave siegler]

it's kind of ironic, 325,000 are willing to register, but the hundred or so( or less)  who read these posts won't. 

Good luck with that. 

How many AMA members are there? 

[JoeJust]

325M registered out of over a million sold, what are the other 600,000 doing?  Once again, the citizens that are not a problem are doing what they feel is the right thing. Others wont, and therein  is the problem.
Joe

[Randy Cuberly]

325M registered out of over a million sold, what are the other 600,000 doing?  Once again, the citizens that are not a problem are doing what they feel is the right thing. Others wont, and therein  is the problem.
Joe

The point here is that this is NOT the Right thing!  More chopping away at constitutional rights by big Government!

The sheeple go right along to the slaughter!

What if 325,000 people just said NO!

Randy Cuberly

[john e. holliday]

I hope the cell is comfortable as I refuse to register.

[Mike Griffin]

it's kind of ironic, 325,000 are willing to register, but the hundred or so( or less)  who read these posts won't. 

Good luck with that. 

How many AMA members are there? 

Dave , approximately 186,000 AMA. Members. 

Mike

[JoeJust]

The only reason I registered is to insure that my 2.4 R/C throttle control on some of my Navy Carrier planes will be legal if challenged.
Joe

[Joseph Patterson]

       I have serious doubts about that many registered!
      Doug   

[Ken Burdick]

I'm going to enter one in stunt next season

[Steve Helmick]

Meanwhile...what do you think of this? I see it as a total waste of technology. Will it bankrupt the Chinese Fireworks Industry? After that huge explosion they had over there last year, maybe they'll welcome it. They'd probably make more on quadrotor sales anyway, and those unemployed fireworks folks will surely be retrained to assemble high quality quadrotors, right? The fire hazard should be somewhat reduced, but maybe not, what with those LiPo batteries bursting into flames when they are mistreated.  Steve

https://www.youtube.com/embed/mOBQXuu_5Zw   

[david beazley]

Dave , approximately 186,000 AMA. Members. 

Mike

That was last year.  Wonder what the 2016 numbers are.  Bet they are lower.