If you use a label make and put it on the center/top of the P3, will it interfere with GPS signal???
not inless its metallic .foily type label.If you use a label make and put it on the center/top of the P3, will it interfere with GPS signal???
I'm curious... all you guys bragging about licking the boots of the FAA and their clearly illegal ruling over toys and model aircraft... I just don't get it. if you absolutely feel the urge to follow this law (this is our country by the way... civil disobedience against tyranny is how this country was started), WHY would you do more than you have to? WHY would you clearly display this number if you're not required to? This just opens you to complaints and attention from the FAA.. even if you did nothing wrong. Wouldn't you rather stay as far under the radar as possible? If you fly over someone who doesn't want you there, wouldn't you rather remain anonymous than be looked up and tracked down because you clearly, and unnecessarily identified yourself as you flew by? The FAA SUGGESTED putting it INSIDE the battery compartment. C'mon guys, HIDE IT. No attention is good attention. This loving rules, registrations, laws and procedures is too much to stomach. If you feel you MUST follow their ridiculous ruling, write it on a piece of masking tape with a pen and stick it in there. Don't dignify this foolishness with one single penny more than you have to or give up any anonymity if you don't have to. Jeez...
Not everyone sees this as a grave intrusion on our civil liberties? I already had a find-me QR code on my bird -- I just updated it. What is the big deal? I am not feeling particularly oppressed by this...
It's more the overstep by the FAA and the drooling everyone seems to be doing to brightly display their government ID number like it's a prize. It's sickening. It's registration, tracking, identification and will ultimately be used for intimidation. Registrations for pilots today, tomorrow regs for the individual drones, then integration to the DJI app, then requiring access to location data.. There is no possible way it will end here unless WE MAKE IT END. This will all be done under the guise of security and threat of terrorism or whatever boogy man passes the most laws this year. In no possible way is this a good thing for anyone. No class was required, no training, nothing. Simply registering who you are and where you live. they don't even care if the reg is visible! Plain and simple, this is just the opening act. Best to disobey now so they back down before they have all the info they need to NOT back down. This is how liberty erodes. Drones being a important aspect of liberty or not, they chip away at it. I for one have lost enough civil liberties to budge one single inch on ANYTHING ever again.
kaybee1 is attacking a concept and you may or may not agree. Jeff48920 is making a personal attack and name calling. That does nothing to promote a healthy discussion.
I'm so sick of this whining about civil liberties being abridged. Your bitching does nothing to advance the hobby nor does it add anything to this forum. I'm sick of you wing nuts turning every thread into your own soapbox for anti regulation. You pal have a first world problem and are a perfect example of an over privileged whiny *** baby. Grow up and save your indignation for something that really matters. Get out on the streets and use some of your privilege to help others. Peace out!!!!
Comments about loss of "freedoms" are not on point. The OP asked where people displayed their information. This constant hijacking of threads to make quasi political "freedom fighter" statements is ridiculous.
As to the good old days, road racing on back roads, riding in the back of a pickup truck as kids, shoplifting and having open fires HAVE ALWAYS been regulated, just not enforced.
Civil disobedience is fine if you want to, just stop implying that anyone who complies is an anti American *****.
I guess I sort of was implying that... It probably wasn't necessary. More importantly though what I was questioning was the excitement about displaying your willingness to bend over to what, at the very least, is questionably legal on the FAAs part. At worst, it's illegal. Not only are people excited about it, they're doing it early and prominently displaying it like it's a prize. Why is this? I also questioned why you'd want to expose who you are when everyone hates these drones. Like I said, it's just inviting undesirable attention. In my opinion, registration is nothing to be excited about. I just don't get the excitement to be loud and proud about this foolishness.
You are correct, your implication was unnecessary and derogatory. You have at least twenty other threads where you and others have talked ad nauseum about your views, was it really necessary to poke the bear again?
Anyway, to respectfully answer your original question for my own part, I believe that my early compliance and display of my registration number works to support the hobby. I personally have always had my contact information on my RC models. I always have flown in a responsible and safe manner given the environment in which I was flying. The media has created a belief that drone enthusiasts are slightly more dangerous and warped than ISIS. If displaying compliance with the registration mandate relieves that perception by 1%, I am doing it. By the way, you state that everyone hates these drones. Besides being hyperbole, the fact is that I have flown my Phantoms all over this country and others, I have never met a single person who wasn't enthralled with the technology and wanted to know more, let alone hated it. Sure there are exceptions like in KY, but I would bet you a new Inspire, those types are in the very small minority.
I am proud to be someone who is willing to display my compliance with even unreasonable requests and still fight in the legal arena to reverse unwarranted and unreasonable constraints. It's kind of like telling the cop you aren't getting out the of the car cause you don't believe he has the authority to make that demand. You may be right but are you interested in being dead right?
There is only one reason I see to not comply, and that is when one intends to fly in a manner that is prohibited by law or creates a dangerous situation. All the rest of the arguments (eg someone will get your number and turn you in, someone will get your address and harass your wife and kids, etc) are simply deflection and without even anecdotal evidence of being based in reality.