Plans to establish a single global drone registry. This single ledger would be accessible for law enforcement to sift within than each country’s specific UAV ledger.
That force US hobbyists, who met and took the FAA in government when it enacted a law to force drone buyers to sign up for an American database. The controversial case ended in a ruling that classified non-commercial drones as prototype aircraft, which don’t want to be nationally registered. Whether the US drone population cooperates with ICAO’s registry is a different question.
Conceivably, the UN business could run the registry itself, though no authority has been officially tasked to do it. But the registry is expected a parent to the global regulations on drone flying and following that ICAO has been invited to help create, according to Reuters. They could pattern their laws after any of three plausible examples: The US FAA’s management for commercial UAVs, China’s listing rules or the likely set coming out of the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA).
But the skies only keep growing busier. In the result of Hurricane Harvey and the coming Irma, a record number of drones managed by state and local offices have been quickly greenlit to fly by the FAA, which is getting new ways to parse out certain UAV activity from illegal flights.
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