“Entering the national air space is a very serious matter” – All Drone Owners Will Need To Register

Here it comes… US just created a task force to create a Drone Registry by November 20. Frankly, we are not surprised.

The Obama administration would want all US drones to be registered. They said that this is a part of a bigger effort to “to curtail rogue drone flights that pose a danger to commercial aircraft and crowded public venues“.

What this exactly means, we are still unsure. The task force will have to recommend on what constitutes a Drone (I guess a DJI Inspire 1 is not the same as those little baby quadcopters); how the registration process will be handled; and the timeframe for execution.

While the agency didn’t say what drone registration would look like, though it did say it would not require drone owners to get a pilot’s license. I think this comes as a big relief both to drone owners and to the drone industry, especially with the upcoming holidays season. (Amazon alone is estimated to sell 10,000 drones on a non-holiday month, and holidays are regularly a big boost on sales)

Here is the complete announcement by U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx, if you care to word peep and look for additional clues:

https://youtu.be/ohkIMnImhE8

Vice has some very good analysis on the topic, which as usual raises more questions than it gives answers, but it may outline the course of this task force.

[via reuters]

P.S. still better than shooting all drones down…