Originally Posted by
GravyRobber
You think a $5 registration is going to stop the outlaw drone operators from setting up just outside KDFW to get videos of airliners taking off and landing? Absolutely not. All this does is put more burden on the same modelers who have SAFELY and RESPONSIBLY shared the skies with full-scale aircraft for the last 80+ years.
Course not, just like a drink driving law doesn't stop drunk driving, but this lays the groundrules to establish minimum safety standards for those drones and operators. That way for properly registered and educated drone pilots, the risk is transferred to them in the case of something going bad (that they caused, like a mid air).