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SPIKE_151 Posted at 2017-7-28 22:53
As the USA registration process has been over turned in court and all registration fees have now to be refunded, I expect some legal challenge in the UK too. Some parts of the legislation will be in workable. The BBC article said "new drone pilots" to undergo registration. So the UK laws, if they are indeed law, maybe enforced when buying a new drone. How will the UK Govt trace every drone owner in the country to make them register? Given the amount of drones already in the country, this seems not practicable. DJI drones have registered users and record data on the user via updates, non DJI drones do not have this and so there is no way to know who currently owns those drones, given they are bought and sold second hand. DJI if they hand over data to the UK Govt about owners also open themselves up to legal action via the existing data protection act.
No doubt the UK Govt already know all of the above, but are pushing through the white paper through parliament anyway. This begs the question is this just a political action based on hysteria driven press based negative information. I suspect it is. The only people that will register are those who currently fly by the drone code anyway. The people who regularly fly in an illegal manner will not register their devices, so this legislation will not really protect helicopter pilots, which given the recent Qinetic Govt testing is why the Govt is justifying this legislation.
I'm not sure how they will manage to police the whole thing, but if first you make it law to register, then you have deterrence fines etc, all new drones will not be activated until you register and do online test, this will mean only older drones would need to register, some may not but over a period most of these drones will wither and die, I'm sure there will be those who would be willing to register their drones, yes maybe those who already play within the rules.
While it will be more of a task to get older drones registered, I do think it will be done, yes there might be challenges but if it's the law, this may prove difficult.
As it is sometimes it can be difficult awkward, to go out and fly your drone, if there were proper registration and license, then I don't think we will feel half as awkward or intrusive as we sometimes do now.
Most people think that regulation means restrictions, I don't think this is the case , certainly aviation seem to be getting behind drones and what will be the future for them.
If you take a scenario that may happen in the future.
You are a fully commercial license RC pilot you can fly up to 120 metres and distance of 500 metres with your P4Pro.
I on the other hand am a novice pilot have done online safety test, I hold a novice license, my P4Pro is restricted to flying height 80 metres distance 300 metres.
There will then be a separation between fully qualified pilot and novice pilot. So if I want my restrictions lifted I am required to sit for my full commercial license.
It may take awhile but I think we may see something like this particularly with the exponential growth in the drone market, both recreational and commercial . |
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