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image public domain As drone technology flies into more aspects of everyday living, legal conflicts are sure to follow. Florida-based aviation attorney Jonathan Rupprecht decided to take a crack at bringing order to the chaos, releasing an online database of drone-related legal activity. “There has been a wide range of drone-related …

image public domain We’ve gotten a lot of questions and comments about Remote ID for Drones – and with good reason.  This regulation is important: it has the potential to impact all drone operations in the country.  It’s also technical, and challenging to understand. This guest post is a longer …

kennethaw88 / CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0) A Michigan county’s attempt to ban drone flights in its public parks crashed and burned last week after a judge ruled the ordinance flew in the face of state law. Flint-area circuit court Judge Joseph Farah granted an injunction to prohibit enforcement of the ban …

Gremsy‘s advanced gimbals make work easy for commercial operators. Compact, lightweight, and feature-rich, Gremsy’s Pixy series have made a major impact in commercial applications from videography and mapping to thermal inspections.  Now, by popular customer demand, Gremsy introduces the Pixy WS: a gimbal designed specifically for the Workswell WIRIS security …

The Financial Times has today reported that the US Department of the Interior is planning to ground its civilian drone program for good in response to growing concerns that hardware made wholly or partly in China could pose a security risk. The latest move by the Trump administration will see …

2019 was a year of change and progress for the drone industry.  What comes next – more consolidation and an industry slow down, or more exciting innovation and industry expansion?  We asked some of the industry’s leading voices for their 2020 predictions. DRONELIFE asked participants to comment on 3 important …

Tis the season. From our friends and partners at Airvuz,the largest collection of drone videos on the Internet, check out”Santa Enchanted Forest” from Whofpv. The Airvuz staff writes: “Santa’s Enchanted Forest is the world’s large holiday theme park. It has been running for 37 years! We were invited by staff to …

Anurupa Chowdhury [CC BY 3.0 ] India’s government is taking steps to regularize commercial drone use, as it begins to build and deploy a nationwide unmanned traffic management (UTM) architecture. India’s current drone regulations, Civil Aviation Regulation (CAR) 1.0, lists very specific software and hardware requirements which most imported drones, including …

At Amsterdam Drone Week today, the EASA High Level Conference on Drones discussed critical issues for regulation and the drone industry – and one of them is how the public perceives drones, as that perception influences regulation around the globe. A panel of aviation regulators and thought leaders took the …

The AMA was denied permission to hold their annual night flying event at the AMA Expo West this year – and members are asking why. The Academy of Model Aeronautics – the AMA – held the AMA Expo at the Fairplex Exposition Complex in Pomona, CA earlier this month.  With …