Australia’s aviation safety authority will establish a “flyer’s license” and mandatory registration for drones, from July, ABC reported.
Anyone in the country who wants to fly a drone will have to be accredited by the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA), making it easier for police to track down miscreants.
“It will certainly give us big advantages in terms of complaints or reports of drones being flown improperly or against the safety rules,” CASA spokesman Peter Gibson said. “We’ll have a starting point to know who flies drones in that area, what sort of drone they fly.”
Prospective flyers of drones weighing more than 250 grams will need to pass an online education course and register their drone, according to policy documents prepared by CASA.
Flyer data will be kept in a database.























