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This is inline with recent changes in Australia. Here, there is an in-person training/accreditation process (costs a few thousand dollars) required for large dr
by prawn 5y ago
This is inline with recent changes in Australia. Here, there is an in-person training/accreditation process (costs a few thousand dollars) required for large drones and flying near controlled aerodromes, etc. Otherwise, you undertake a very simple online test that is just about impossible to get wrong. I dislike many impositions but it's not taxing at all for anyone making money with their drone.
There'd be virtually no checks/enforcement though. I have flown thousands of times and never been chased up over anything. I know 10+ commercial drone operators and only one of them has ever been queried about his flying, and that was by marine parks authorities because they thought he'd flown in a conservation area (he knew the area very well and was a couple of metres outside it...).
- airhead969 5y agoThe US isn't and doesn't work like Australia. No nanny state, TYVM. Fly a low-mass, little toy around, the government wanting you to get a license and track you like you're operating a nuclear reactor is absurd.
- enticeing 5y agoRemind me in which way the licensing/permitting process for drones is at all similar to the licensing/permitting process for a nuclear reactor. I'm certain that a nuclear reactor takes much more than a 30 minute course to operate.
- bdamm 5y agoThe requirements for nuclear plant operators are quite a bit more burdensome than the new rules for drone operation. Flying a drone doesn't even require a drug test! Not the same at all.
- jcranmer 5y agoCan't reply to parent, so I'll add my response here to illustrate what "quite a bit more burdensome" looks like. I don't know the requirements for operating a nuclear reactor, but here's the requirements to operate a water treatment plant: * A degree in engineering, environmental engineering, chemistry, physics from an accredited school. * Pass a licensing exam * For operating larger plants, a minimum of X years experience working at smaller plants first. * After getting your license, you're required to have N hours of continuing education requirements before you can renew your license. Something like 10 hours / year.