9/1/2023 0 Comments Faa drone regulations 2015The DJI Phantom 3 and the 3D Robotics Solo both got released and both seem fine and popular, but neither appears to be totally changing how people actually fly drones. Amazon teased its drone delivery service though we still have no idea when it's actually coming, we do know that the company wants its own dedicated drone airspace. Would-be commercial drone pilots once spent most of their waking hours clamoring for this rule, but with 333 exemptions, no one seems to mind all that much that the FAA is taking its sweet time in finalizing the official regulations.Įven when you move away from the highly riveting world of federal regulation, the story doesn't get all that much more interesting. ![]() It finally seems like both the pilots and the agency tasked with keeping drones in check have found some common senseīeyond that, the biggest news is really the FAA's general inaction: There's still no official small drone regulation, which is long past the Congressionally mandated Septemdeadline. (The jury is still out on how onerous, annoying, effective, and secure the system will actually be.) Other headlines: The FAA fined a commercial drone operator for $1.9 million for unsafe flying and drone hobbyists interfered with California wildfire-fighting efforts. Instead, the big news this year was a relatively ho-hum drone registration program implemented by the FAA on short notice. There were certainly more drones in the sky this year, as far as I can tell, there were no big drone-related assaults (though a parks service ranger did tase a drone pilot back in April), no police helicopter-drone chases, and no attempts by the FAA to take down nonprofit search-and-rescue organizations. The agency has issued more than 2,600 "Section 333 Exemptions," which are essentially commercial drone permits that can be obtained through a relatively simple petition process.Īs 333 exemptions became more common, the drone headlines got increasingly boring. Likely, this is because the FAA is finally letting companies fly drones commercially without having to jump through too many legal hoops. The FAA quickly backtracked on that free-speech infringing idea, however, and a representative for the agency told me this week that the agency is no longer sending out formal (and legally dubious) cease-and-desist notifications to businesses and hobbyists who fly in a manner the agency doesn't like. At the beginning of the year, all indications were that the FAA was going to continue to villainize the technology: In March, the FAA went after a drone hobbyist for posting his aerially shot videos on YouTube, claiming that it was a "commercial" use of the tech.ĭrones have become just another piece of technology that normal people use without batting an eye ![]() And that made 2015 quite a boring year in terms of big headline drone news.
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