Coming out of another long summer of the doldrums and folks are wondering and asking what, if anything, is going on? We’ll start with the quantifiable and move on to the conjecture as the piece builds up a good head…
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Did the FAA Arbitrarily Change its own UAS NAS Policy? (Part 2)
by Patrick Egan •
Some background on the FAA/DOT documents: these attached documents are a series of memorandum involving an unmanned aircraft manufacturer/operator seeking to establish procedures for flying both Radio Controlled Blimps and fixed wing aircraft in Class B Airspace. (The documents are…
Did the FAA Arbitrarily Change its own UAS NAS Policy?
by Patrick Egan •
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…
Dude, where’s my advocacy?
by Patrick Egan •
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…
FAA, working for the sUAS clampdown?
by Patrick Egan •
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…
Police to fly small drones in USA by Christmas?
by Patrick Egan •
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…
Patrick day two AUVSI 10
by Patrick Egan •
Man, what a hard day in the exhibit hall. I started the day off with more airspace integration meetings. The meetings went fine and the general consensus is that the recent AUVSI rebuttal letter to Nancy Kalinowski was a step…
Patricks day out
by Patrick Egan •
The day was spent entirely in the Airspace Integration Workshop. Most of the global airspace integration usual suspects were in the room. Included where a few sUAS ARC participants, Rich Hanson (AMA), Ted Wierzbanowski (AV), Ardy Williams (FAA), and Andrew…
Patrick Egan ARC roundup
by Patrick Egan •
For those of you that have followed the saga, some of this may seem repetitive and for those who have not, there may be some enlightenment. Since May, I have had the task of representing the would be “commercial operator.”…
