Michael Kagdis – Proper Media Group CC by-SA 3.0 The Palm Beach drone laws adopted last June are illegal, town officials now realize. Finding that the FAA claims sole jurisdiction over the airspace, the Town Council will have to rescind or rewrite the regulation, which all but outlawed recreational drones in their town. …
Read More »Recreational Drones are Left Out of Amazon’s New Plan
News and Commentary. Recreational drones – once the darling of drone headlines and drone manufacturers alike – may be taking a backseat to the commercial drone industry. When Paul Misener, vice president for global innovation policy and communications for Amazon, gave a keynote address at the InterDrone 2016 conference in …
Read More »Top 5 Drone Component Companies to Watch
Image: Holger Harms, CC by-SA 3.0 Do you know what’s inside your drone? As the FAA regulation shift seems to indicate a takeoff for the commercial drone industry, it isn’t only drone manufacturers who could reap the benefit. With products that range from the chips inside to the vision sensing …
Read More »Public-Safety Drones: South Korea Leads the Way
(Courtesy Korea Bizwire – used with permission) Drone use in South Korea is really taking off. In March, government officials pledged ongoing support to the domestic drone industry in the hopes of capturing a share of the anticipated $150 billion drone market over the next decade. The South Korean National …
Read More »PrecisionHawk Receives First Waiver to Fly Beyond Line of Sight
Leading commercial drone company PrecisionHawk has announced that they have received the first Part 107 waiver for BVLOS flight (beyond visual line of sight.) PrecisionHawk has been working with the FAA to establish the safety case for BVLOS flight as part of the Pathfinder program, designed to help the FAA …
Read More »FAA Drone Advisory Committee Membership Announced
The FAA has announced the membership and first meeting agenda for the Drone Advisory Committee (DAC). The formation of the DAC was announced last spring, as FAA Administrator Michael Huerta promoted the ongoing collaboration efforts between government and industry to up the pace of commercial drone regulation. Brian Krzanich, Chief Executive …
Read More »Why You Should Never Fly a Drone Over a Wildfire or Other Emergency Situation
Guest post by Jeremiah Karpowicz, Commercial UAV News Regardless of how many times a particular headline appears, it can feel like certain stories are being published on a daily basis. Not too long ago, news of the “drone” that hit an airplane felt like it was everywhere. Unfortunately, the update that …
Read More »Marketing Your Drone Business: How to Find New Customers
Sponsored post by Erin Olsen, Director of Marketing at Skyward Starting a new business isn’t easy: From incorporation to accounting, hiring employees or contractors, investing in software, and setting up your systems, there’s so much to think about. And most of it isn’t directly related to the reason you started …
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