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General control line discussion => Open Forum => Topic started by: Robert Zambelli on February 09, 2016, 07:07:38 AM

Title: Drone pilots
Post by: Robert Zambelli on February 09, 2016, 07:07:38 AM: Just heard on the news!

There are now 325,000 registered drone pilots and 320,000 private pilots. :o n~

Bob Z.
Title: Re: Drone pilots
Post by: John Rist on February 09, 2016, 08:52:16 AM: 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. HB~>
Title: Re: Drone pilots
Post by: dave siegler on February 09, 2016, 09:20:38 AM: 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?
Title: Re: Drone pilots
Post by: JoeJust on February 09, 2016, 09:59:05 AM: 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
Title: Re: Drone pilots
Post by: Randy Cuberly on February 09, 2016, 10:17:25 AM: Quote from: JoeJust on February 09, 2016, 09:59:05 AM
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
Title: Re: Drone pilots
Post by: john e. holliday on February 09, 2016, 10:43:20 AM: I hope the cell is comfortable as I refuse to register.
Title: Re: Drone pilots
Post by: Mike Griffin on February 09, 2016, 01:15:23 PM: Quote from: dave siegler on February 09, 2016, 09:20:38 AM
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
Title: Re: Drone pilots
Post by: JoeJust on February 09, 2016, 01:41:18 PM: 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
Title: Re: Drone pilots
Post by: Joseph Patterson on February 09, 2016, 04:44:51 PM: I have serious doubts about that many registered!
Doug
Title: Re: Drone pilots
Post by: Ken Burdick on February 09, 2016, 04:57:21 PM: I'm going to enter one in stunt next season
Title: Re: Drone pilots
Post by: Steve Helmick on February 10, 2016, 12:27:12 AM: 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. D>K Steve

https://www.youtube.com/embed/mOBQXuu_5Zw
Title: Re: Drone pilots
Post by: david beazley on February 10, 2016, 03:28:27 AM: Quote from: Mike Griffin on February 09, 2016, 01:15:23 PM
Dave , approximately 186,000 AMA. Members.

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