When California has to ground fire control aircraft because idiots are too stupid to realize that flying drones near them is a bad idea, yeah, the hobby is a problem.
The good drone operators didn't get control over the bad ones, so here we are.
The good drone operators didn't get control over the bad ones, so here we are.
What does this even mean? I buy a drone and now I'm responsible to go hunt down every idiot with a drone and tell him to knock it off? I'm sure that would be very effective. Definitely much more effective than the FAA regulations already in place that these people choose to ignore.
Instead, they spent their political capital fighting regulations instead of making good ones that the FAA could simply adopt wholesale.
Because of that, the FAA stepped in and now everybody gets to deal with the fallout.