Big News for Drone Industry: FAA Unwraps New Drone Rules

[Russell Weathers]

NEW YORK, Dec. 22, 2015 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- FAA unwraps drone rules for the holidays. Fearing as many as a million new drones might land under Christmas trees this year.FAA has announced a new regulation on drones. The Obama administration announced that all units weighing between 0.55 pounds and 50 pounds must be registered by February 19th, 2016. Anyone against this rule and caught flying will face still penalties and be even in jail for years.

DJI's latest drone- Phantom 3 has faced an crisis because it's overweight. FAA has bitterly confounded DJI's ambition. The cold winner for DJI is coming. Currently DJI has held 60% market share in the U.S. FAA adds up to a one - two punch that would stagger DJI.

FAA's new regulation will be effective on Dec. 21st and almost covers all the consumer drone on the market. All the drones weighing between 0.55 lbs and 50 lbs must be registered on FAA's official website. It's a nightmare for most of the drones like DJI. FAA offers unique registration number to approved submitters and those drone owners are required to paste or paint their own numbers on their drone.

FAA has the 0.55 pounds regulation because administration thought it's the bottleneck that drone companies would not breakthrough. To make a drone weighting under 226g is nearly possible.

But Onagofly surprised us with advanced drone technology from China. The Intelligent Onagofly drone is not only featured by its sophisticated performance moreover Onagofly has lowered its weight to the crazy 140g-nearly 0.3 lbs.

In this case FAA's newest regulation become invalid to Onagofly at the first moment it's coming out.

Onagofly is the most popular drone crowdfunding project since the day it launched on Indiegogo

SOURCE Onagofly

 

[j_garcia]

Not exactly new news, as it was all over the place that it would be enforced starting Jan 1, but a lot of people buying drones that meet that criteria still aren't aware of it.

Today is the last day to register for free too:

http://gizmodo.com/today-is-the-last-day-to-register-your-drone-for-free-1754260482

 

[3db]

Not exactly new news, as it was all over the place that it would be enforced starting Jan 1, but a lot of people buying drones that meet that criteria still aren't aware of it.

Today is the last day to register for free too:

http://gizmodo.com/today-is-the-last-day-to-register-your-drone-for-free-1754260482

Sounds like a money grab by the FAA... Don't publicize and have consumers pay for it by "ignorance of the law" If the FAA did it right, it work with the vendors and have teh vendors contact purchasers of these devices much like a safety recall. F'n bureaucrats!!

 

[j_garcia]

There's a RC/Drone shop right across the street from my work. They have a sign saying you must register, and I'm sure they tell people when they buy them since it is now law.