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Need a permit for your ELEV-8?

Ron CzapalaRon Czapala Posts: 2,418
edited 2012-02-17 08:39 in General Discussion
Watch this video and listen at 4 min 15 secs into it - FAA and pilot concerns...

http://news.yahoo.com/video/us-15749625/drones-who-is-watching-you-28326842.html

Comments

  • lanternfishlanternfish Posts: 366
    edited 2012-02-16 12:55
    Surely they can just come under the same regulations that apply to consumer RC aircraft, rocketry and the like. Or is that too simple a legislative option?
  • SRLMSRLM Posts: 5,045
    edited 2012-02-16 13:07
    The distinction is that they are doing it for profit, hobbyists are not. In the US, autonomous aircraft still can't be used to make money.
  • GordonMcCombGordonMcComb Posts: 3,366
    edited 2012-02-16 13:42
    ELEV-8 comes under the same rules as R/C flying, and there are significant restrictions: under 400 feet, must be in visible line-of-flight to the pilot (no TV only control), no where near a commercial flight corridor, away from populated areas, and for UAVs a pilot must be available to take manual control in an instant. "Drones" of the type mentioned in this news piece are a completely different animal.

    Commercial (like aerial real estate photos or movie-making), military, and law enforcement use requires a COA, and it's for these the pilot's association wants full flight training. These fly higher, are often completely unmanned, and may involve flight over populated areas, even near flight paths.

    -- Gordon
  • lanternfishlanternfish Posts: 366
    edited 2012-02-16 16:18
    So no real issue then. And like any hobby there is always someone who will push the legal boundaries (and sometimes ruin it for others).
  • JimInCAJimInCA Posts: 80
    edited 2012-02-17 08:39
    lanternfish wrote: »
    So no real issue then.

    Not quite so. Please read the attached article which covers the Academy of Model Aeronautics on-going efforts.

    http://www.modelaircraft.org/news/mediarelease_SenateBill.aspx

    You have to be ever vigilant...
    Jim...
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