Be happy to oblige, Glenn.
No Paul, it is not per model, but the
owner of a model who has to register.
EASA came up with a very sensible way of doing this, whereby model flyers who were in an association, bmfa, LMA, needed to do nothing.
Enter the CAA, DFT whatever you want to call them. They say all flying things over 250 grams are drones and every owner (not pilot) must register. They seem to think that £16.50 pa will get them a super duper new computer system as they reckon on over 170,000 owners will register. That is just rubbish. The entire BMFA is only 34,000. So the money will then have to go up. It is this that we need to object to, the amount. France pays nothing, USA pays 5 dollars. You get a number which is supposed to be displayed on your model. There is no way this can ever be enforced, as I see it. It needs pointing out to them the futility of trying to get 2.8 million a year from uk model fliers. And the fact that we were informed we need do nothing.
Thats why I and the BMFA and LMA are asking for responses. Email
baroness.vere@dft.gov.uk with your concerns, the more the better. No ropes please, we need a nice drinky at Binham.