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@dronelaws @seanlawson @TheDroneGuy @FerdTrautt Toy helicopters have warning label that says "not a toy" and intended for indoor use.
— FAA Safety Briefing (@FAASafetyBrief) May 9, 2014
This is an agency that has no idea what it’s doing. It’s making up things as it goes along. Drones aren't going away—the only way this problem gets any better is if they come out with regulations. Real regulations with a public comment period and real regulations that go through the standard rulemaking process. You're seeing it right now with electronic cigarettes. Say what you want about the process, but the FDA isn't trying to fine e-cig makers that it doesn't like, not before it has a rule.Until you make actual rules about what people can and cannot do, they can do anything. That should scare the hell out of the FAA. They can fine and intimidate and tell people to stop flying, but they will lose every single court case until they have codified rules. These cases should have lit a fire under the agency's ass long ago. Instead, even a preliminary rule isn't expected until November, long after they were originally due. The drone's Wild West days will prevail until then.@jonresnickAP @dronelaws @FAASafetyBrief They don't know what they're saying because they're making it up as they go along.
— Sean Lawson (@seanlawson) May 19, 2014