Take a deep calming breath, Meta4.
Have you ever seen the FAA make a distinction between a palm sized quadcopter and a full sized autonomous drone? Have you?
This group of Phantom-centric quad flyers often forget that there are other drones flying the skies besides their little white jellyfish.
And when the government talks about regulating drones, it isn't the Phantom they are focused on. When a pilot reports seeing a drone at X feet, whether factual or not, it probably wasn't a tiny white DJI jellyfish that was spotted.
So whether right or wrong, to the government and the media, a drone is a drone regardless of it's size or purpose, to 90% of the DJI fan boys on this forum, a drone is a drone and nothing but a Phantom.
In my opinion articles like this are a good reminder to that 90% on here who can't see beyond the DJI lineup, that indeed there are other, much larger "drones" out there, and it's not just Phantoms that the FAA is going after.
If hearing that a drone is a drone in the government's current lexicon is nonsense to you, then that tells me your one of those who can't see beyond DJI's offerings.
In the thread about terrorist drones, how many of you droned on about how a Phantom couldn't carry a payload of explosives, thus drones were not a threat...lol. Again, can't see beyond that DJI jellyfish, can ya? Now that is what I call nonsense...