FAA’s Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Registration Task Force, which includes AAAE among its members, has completed its final day of meetings.
The group focused on reaching a consensus on a recommended process for registration, according to FAA. The discussions included how an operator might prove a UAS is registered, how the aircraft would be marked, and how to use the registration process to encourage or require UAS operators to become educated on basic safety rules.
FAA said the task force continues to gather data and analyze which types of UAS would need to be registered and which would not. The task force will finalize its recommendations for delivery to FAA Administrator Michael Huerta by Nov. 20.
Huerta asked the group to consider the following questions:
- How do we make registration as easy as possible for consumers while providing accountability?
- What products should we exclude from registration based on weight, speed, altitude and flying time?
- What information should we collect during the registration process and what should we do with the data?
- Should every unmanned aircraft sold have its own serial number, or how to tie particular aircraft to a particular user?
- Should the process include a formal education component before an aircraft can be registered?
- Should registration be retroactive and apply to unmanned aircraft that are now in the system?
- Should there be an age requirement for registration?”Ultimately, we want to make registration as easy as possible for consumers, to relieve them of the complexity associated with registering larger, manned aircraft,” Huerta said
Source: Aviation News Today