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Transport Canada has launched a draft of latest drone legal guidelines, which the world’s main drone producer DJI says may considerably restrict the trade. “While DJI is pleased some operating restrictions from earlier Interim Orders have been eased, the draft rules as written would significantly limit safe and responsible drone …

The Unmanned Aircraft Safety Team (UAST) has introduced it’s most up-to-date exercise: the formation of three risk-reduction working teams. The UAST is “an industry-government partnership committed to ensuring the safe operations of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS).”  Announced final summer season by FAA Administrator Michael Huerta, the group is one other …

The response to John Taylor’s FOIA request asking the FAA for information that point out the leisure drone registration program was ever used to implement rules is the most recent level of debate within the argument over this system. By now, everybody within the drone communitiy is aware of about …

A brand new modification to the House proposal for FAA Reauthorization, the 21st Century AIRR Act, requires a micro drone classification for drone rules. The modification, provided by Rep. Rodney Davis of Illinois, requires a particular class of rules for drones weighing beneath four.four kilos.  According to the modification, operators …

It’s that point of yr once more – when Congress begins to contemplate FAA Reauthorization (the final extension made expires this fall.)  Last week’s announcement that Rep. Bill Shuster had re-introduced the AIRR Act as “The 21st Century AIRR Act” was no shock, coming after President Trump’s vocal help for …

News and Commentary.  The FAA Reauthorization Extension runs out this fall – and Rep. Bill Shuster has reintroduced the AIRR Act because the “21st Century AIRR Act“, the FAA Reathorization Package that requires privatization of Air Traffic Control. Last 12 months, the AIRR Act did not cross the Senate and …

President Trump Top drone executives from PrecisionHawk, Trumbull Unmanned, AirMap, Measure, Kespry and Airspace joined wi-fi community executives and enterprise capitalists for some nose to nose time with U.S. President Donald Trump. By all reviews, the gang praised Trump for his efforts to restrict authorities regulation and his assist for …

A current article printed on Recode.web speculated that the privatization of air site visitors management, as introduced by President Donald Trump earlier this week, might really velocity up drone integration – and the business purposes that may’t be utilized till it’s full, like drone supply. “The proposal to privatize air traffic …

By EspartacoPalma (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0 ] State and Local drone legal guidelines have turn into much more difficult in latest months.  With problems with FAA preemption in query, states are proposing drone rules at a frequently growing price.  Current proposals in Congress which might shield states’ rights to legislate …

By Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming [Public domain] Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) submitted the Drone Aircraft Privacy and Transparency Act of 2017 on March 15, creating a major layer of obstacles for drone integration and drone companies. Today, the Commercial Drone Alliance got here out in opposition …