drone laws

New drone laws have come into effect in the UK today, restricting drones from flying above 400 feet or within one kilometer of airport boundaries. More laws are due to come into place later this year. The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) will at the end of November require UK drone owners whose …

The following is a guest post attorney and drone pilot Andrew Elefant, Director of Policy at Kittyhawk.io, an enterprise drone software company in San Francisco, CA. In anticipation of the Uniform Law Commission’s Tort Law Relating to Drones Drafting Committee meeting on July 25 in Louisville, KY, some of the …

The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) has been doing battle with the FAA over drone privateness since 2012, however suffered a loss this week.   The D.C. Circuit (the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit) rejected EPIC’s petition to evaluation FAA’s small drone rule, “finding …

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has launched a report suggesting that the FAA wants to enhance its administration of security dangers for drones. The 92-page doc, revealed in response to rising concern in Congress and different authorities companies over the unsafe use of drones, says that the FAA lacks good …

By Wknight94 [GFDL  or CC BY-SA 3.0 ] Seattle’s Space Needle appears to draw drones, and it appears that evidently officers have determined sufficient is sufficient.  Seattle lawmakers pushed for drone rules again in 2014 when a drone video of the Space Needle went viral.  Since then, Seattle has had …

Virginia’s Governor Ralph Shearer Northam signed legislative invoice HB638 final week.  The invoice is a main win for Virginia’s drone {industry}, making a transfer to stop localities from enacting their very own laws and creating the problematic “patchwork quilt” of drone guidelines inside the state. The regulation, which can go …

News and Commentary.  The U.S. House of Representatives introduced on the finish of final month that they’d handed the 2018 FAA Reauthorization Act by an overwhelming majority: 393 to 13.  This is important information for all stakeholders within the aviation business – many earlier tries to achieve consensus over a …

The Drone Integration Pilot Program (IPP) introduced by the Trump administration final 12 months has generated large curiosity within the U.S.  Both state and native governments and drone trade gamers have utilized for the chance to have a voice in drone integration: of the tons of of functions the FAA …

Tomorrow, May 5 is International Drone Day, and together with that occasion main AI-enabled airspace consciousness and intelligence agency Fortem Technologies launched its client survey findings, revealing public opinion of a future with drone know-how. Public opinion is a vital subject for the business.  Here within the U.S., dialogue over …

picture: Virginia Tech Here at DRONELIFE we’ve had a serious benefit in making sense of NASA’s unmanned site visitors administration (UTM) testing and what it means for drone operators in every single place: we’ve bought Amit Ganjoo of ANRA Technologies’ cellphone quantity.  A main participant in each UTM and drone …