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picture courtesy AirMap News and Commentary. Forums lit up final week with criticism and complaints after main airspace intelligence supplier AirMap launched a letter to a lawmaker in help of the Drone Innovation Act, suggesting that the laws be added to the markup of the latest model of the FAA …

The FAA and Department of Interior have agreed to limit unauthorized drone flights of DOI websites inlcuding the Statue of Liberty and Mount Rushmore. Here is the complete textual content of the assertion from the FAA. At the request of U.S. nationwide safety and legislation enforcement businesses, the Federal Aviation …

A federal court docket has grounded 4 elements of a 2016 drone ordinance in a Massachusetts city after a pitched authorized battle which will set priority in future UAV case legislation. Local drone operator Michael Singer filed the lawsuit after the city of Newton handed an ordinance regulating drone use …

Drone safety is a important subject within the industrial drone trade.  As FAA Reauthorization packages come up for dialogue in Congress this month, the Commercial Drone Alliance has printed their instructed tips for drone safety laws. The Commercial Drone Alliance is a non-profit trade group centered on training and advocacy. …

News launch from the FAA By Thursday morning, August 31, 2017, the Federal Aviation Administration had issued 43 unmanned plane system authorizations to drone operators supporting the response and restoration for Hurricane Harvey or masking it as a part of the media. The authorizations cowl a broad vary of actions …

You would assume some issues go with out saying however final evening the FAA issued a sequence of statements by way of Twitter warning drone pilots to keep away from Hurricane Harvey and that there could be penalties for violations. These statements referenced a tweet from the Texas Military Department …

DJI has introduced the event of a brand new possibility for pilots involved over current information safety points. The new characteristic, Local Data Mode, will allow flight with none web information switch, making certain that enterprise prospects and delicate authorities operations stay safe. The announcement is in response to current tales …

After information broke final week that the US Army wished to halt the use of DJI drones, loads have been leaping to the conclusion that one thing critical was up with DJI’s software program from an information safety perspective. There is no smoke with no hearth, as the saying goes. …

By Matt Morgan  [CC BY-SA 2.0 ] The United States Department of Defense (DoD) has issued new tips for coping with unauthorized drone flights over army installations.  The new tips would permit drones to be disabled or destroyed: a Defense.gov assertion mentioned DoD “cracks down” on drones. A Pentagon spokesman advised …

A memo – reportedly an official launch from the US Army – has been handed to sUAS News. The topic? Halting the use of DJI expertise attributable to ‘Cyber vulnerabilities’. The memo handed to sUAS information. The textual content of the doc reads: DAMO-AVMEMORANDUM FOR RECORD2 August 2017 SUBJECT: Discontinue …