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Build your own. It's easy. I've built 2 myself and have learned from/taught some of my friends. I have registered myself with the FAA for their current program

• jedberg 7y ago
  You can build your own car and drive it around on the streets without a license plate (or license), but you won't get very far.
  • slenk 7y ago
    Yeah if you drive in a busy city. But if you build a car on your farmland and want to have fun, do whatever you want. And in most states, if its private property, that is perfectly legal. Likewise, if I am flying a drone in middle-of-nowhere Michigan on my own property, why should the FAA care what I am doing? The problem with the FAA rules is that it is a poorly thought out blanket statement. If you are flying around downtown LA, yes, you should have a license because you are putting people's lives at danger with a "vehicle". They don't make sense to me on private property, and I think that they should be different depending on city limits. If we get into some of the autonomous aspects that both cars and drones have, I think we run into some other gray areas where a blanket policy doesn't fit.
• 0_____0 7y ago
  99% of the people flying drones in unsafe or harrassing ways have an off-the-shelf camera quad. The DIY operators are far more likely to understand the ramifications of what they're doing, maybe because you have to have just a bit of common sense to build one in the first place. Credentials: raced 250 class quads (poorly), have chewed Phantom operators out for doing stupid shit