recreational drones

Drone insurance coverage choices are all over the place.  For many operators, each leisure and business, the choices are complicated – and costly.  How a lot drone insurance coverage do you really want?  How a lot ought to that value?  We talked to an business chief to seek out out. …

Kentucky Fried Chicken is providing the perfect meal promotion we’ve heard of.  The promoting geniuses as KFC are touting “The Flyest Meal Ever” – a dinner deal that permits you to flip your empty rooster dinner field into a drone. The restricted version KFO micro drone is made by reducing …

Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao delivered remarks to the viewers at CES 2018 yesterday.  During her remarks, she commented that the FAA has registered extra than 1,000,000 drones – a determine that the DOT press workplace says contains “878,000 hobbyists, who receive one identification number for all the drones they …

The Academy of Model Aircraft (AMA), representing a big neighborhood of drone operators, has issued a  assertion on the lately launched National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) report on the collision between a civilian (DJI Phantom) and a Black Hawk helicopter close to Staten Island, New York this September. The report – …

The Academy of Model Aeronautics (AMA) has revealed a listing of ceaselessly requested questions on drone registration.  The AMA confirms that members who’ve already registered with the group nonetheless must register with the FAA. The sudden reversals of the FAA registration program – from required to optionally available and again …

The FAA has gained a victory on drone registration.  President Trump at present signed the $700 billion National Defense Authorization Act, which included one small half making drone registration within the U.S. authorized. It was simply earlier than the vacations in 2015 that the FAA pushed drone registration by way …

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 …

  Snap Inc., Snapchat’s mum or dad firm, has tried to rebrand itself as a shopper digital camera firm for the previous couple of years, emphasizing the change when asserting it’s public providing early this 12 months.  Just earlier than going public, the corporate talked about it’s Spectacles product and the New …

DJI Matrice 200 According to draft laws distributed to a number of congressional committees, the authorities needs the energy to “track, hack, and destroy” any drone which may pose a menace to safety. The doc was uncovered by the New York Times, who says that “The Trump administration is asking Congress …

Jacquene Curlee – affectionately often known as “Miss JC” by her college students – loves her job.  With an enthusiasm and spirit unattainable to withstand, JC is on a mission to advertise her personal model of STEAM schooling: Science, Technology, Engineering, Aviation and Math.   The founder and CEO of Kids …