It is interesting and bizarre that the FAA would actually encourage registering for and issuing a 107 card for recreational flyers by the deliberate confusion in the online registration process, without ever first obtaining a 107 certificate. Our government at work...
Totally totally agree. I think I commented further up on this thread that the wording on the registration page almost seems deliberately misleading.It is interesting and bizarre that the FAA would actually encourage registering for and issuing a 107 card for recreational flyers by the deliberate confusion in the online registration process, without ever first obtaining a 107 certificate. Our government at work...
It is interesting and bizarre that the FAA would actually encourage registering for and issuing a 107 card for recreational flyers by the deliberate confusion in the online registration process, without ever first obtaining a 107 certificate. Our government at work...
Indeed. However, the online choices are very confusing to anyone without a 107 certificate, leading hobbyists to unintentionally register under Part 107, as we have already seen in this thread, from postings by two recreational registrants. Among other things, they are needlessly registering specific aircraft, rather than just themselves. Plus, they are now card carrying 107 pilots, without a 107 certification, which will confuse them, and anyone to whom the card is presented, including LEO's, as to their real classification. Not good.
Agreed, and my point is that, while that hobbyist registering under Part 107 is fully compliant, that hobbyist may then wrongly believe they are now 107 certified, and any LEO being presented their 107 card will also not understand the distinction. IMHO, the lack of clarity creates even more problems after the 107 card is issued to a hobbyist.
Agreed, and my point is that, while that hobbyist registering under Part 107 is fully compliant, that hobbyist may then wrongly believe they are now 107 certified, and any LEO being presented their 107 card will also not understand the distinction. IMHO, the lack of clarity creates even more problems after the 107 card is issued to a hobbyist.
Your Phantom qualifies as another hobbyist aircraft. You can use the same F number you do for all your other planes. This is exactly the type of confusion created by the new registration options.
If the 107 registration card says nothing about 107, and is essentially indistinguishable from a hobbyist card, how is anyone to know that every hobbyist with a hobbyist card isn't also 107 certified, or that anyone in possession of a 107 registration card, becuse of a mistaken hobbyist registration, isn't actually 107 certified? Plenty of room for confusion.
We have hobbyists mistakenly registering their aircraft under Part 107, instead of themselves as hobbyist pilots. Some may think they are now 107 certified because of that confusion. That concerns me.
Have you seen the two types of cards?
I agree with this. This is exactly the confusion that results. He thinks he needs to register a different way.
Agreed and understood. But I got my Phantom registered under 107 in hopes of eventually going commercial. Still don't understand why they don't ask for your certification number when registering your aircraft for 107. Then those that are strictly hobbyists would know that they are in the wrong place when they go to register in the 107 area.
I reread this and have a shorter answer: they know s/he isn’t also 107 certified because they can’t also produce the LICENSE you get after passing the part 107 knowledge test.
Gadget guy is right. As long as you are flying your drone for hobby you done need to register it special. Slap your existing number on it. You only need to register it differently if you’ve gotten your 107 remote pilot cert AND intend to use it for non hobby flights.
