This is just one of the many questions the Remote Control Aerial Photography Association (RCAPA), have been asking over the last several years. This particular request was initiated over a year and half ago (2009). That must seem like an…
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Dude, where’s my advocacy?
by Patrick Egan • • 2 Comments
For most of 2010 the grass roots went fallow. However, the grass is looking a littlegreener coming out of spring and into conference season 2011. We’re hearing averitable plethora of good news… more and more about changes that are coming…
HR 658
by Patrick Egan • • 7 Comments
Advocacy Update RE: H.R. 658 Just a small follow up to a previous story run here at sUAS News about the language contained in the FAA reauthorization bill. I had heartburn with the language, in that it continues the trend…
A call to arms from the Academy of Model Aeronautics
by Gary Mortimer • • 4 Comments
Ahead of the NPRM the Academy of Model Aeronautics (AMA) is asking its members to let their voices be heard and at the time of writing 42500 letters have been sent to congressmen. Tell Congress to Protect Model Aviation The…
Commercial UAS flight to be permitted in the USA by no later than September 2015
by Gary Mortimer • • 4 Comments
FAA Reauthorization and Reform Act of 2011 Start logging flight hours and failures and hope to be one of the chosen few allowed to start dipping their toes in the water. That seems to be the cut of a Bill…
Washington Post reports privacy fears over Police sUAS use.
by Gary Mortimer • • 1 Comment
A recent Washington Post article by Peter Finn contains the following statement:- For now, the use of drones for high-risk operations is exceedingly rare. The Federal Aviation Administration – which controls the national airspace – requires the few police departments…
The SFAR Part 107 Shades of Things to Come…
by Patrick Egan • • 5 Comments
Many of you who have had to back off from the day-to-day UAS airspace integration grind, should find the following update of interest. This type of piece is a hard one to write as it lacks definitive answers for the multitude…
FAA, working for the sUAS clampdown?
by Patrick Egan • • 18 Comments
One of the latest rumors floating around is that come this fall, the FAA has plans to institute some sort of commercial sUAS enforcement program…. three and a half years after their infamous policy clarification statement of February 13, 2007 http://www.faa.gov/about/initiatives/uas/reg/media/frnotice_uas.pdf…
Might a technology prize be the key to sUAS sense and avoid?
by Patrick Egan • • Comments Off
Many continue to espouse the notion that the solution for the pressing U.S. NAS integration issues lay with finding the FAA more money. Perplexing to me, as the FAA already has a budget in the tens of billions. However, grousing…
Police to fly small drones in USA by Christmas?
by Patrick Egan • • 2 Comments
A gift for the small unmanned aerial systems industry? The FAA may come to an understanding with the DOJ by Christmas. America lags behind many countries in creating rules and permissions for sUAS,systems weighing less than 150kg. Current FAA regulations…
