Regulatory Updates

The FAA simply introduced that a fourth firm might be added to the listing of these with Part 107 waivers to fly over folks, also referred to as 107.39 waivers. The three different firms with 107.39 waivers are CNN, FLIR, and Project Wing (owned by Google’s guardian firm, Alphabet), all enormous …

Last week we hosted a webinar entitled How to Ace the FAA’s Part 107 Exam and Become a Certified Drone Drone Pilot, and we had been so inundated with questions that we promised to put in writing a comply with up weblog publish to verify all of them bought answered. …

Before final month the FAA had solely issued 4 waivers to fly over folks—two to CNN, and two to FLIR. But in September a 3rd firm, Project Wing, was issued a 107.39 waiver, after which simply final week CNN was issued their third such waiver, growing the complete depend of …

The White House is anticipated to announce mannequin pilot applications to check federal-local sharing of airspace rules inside the subsequent few days. These proposed applications will discover sharing airspace oversight between the FAA and state, native, and tribal, authorities. Image supply The particulars are nonetheless fuzzy, however the broad strokes …

Yesterday Skyward introduced that they’ve been authorised by the FAA to offer business drone pilots instantaneous entry to managed airspace utilizing the brand new Low Altitude Authorization and Notification Capability (LAANC). LAANC will allow companies to entry airspace that beforehand required the submission of a handbook request for authorization. Most …

Always needed to movie the Statue of Liberty along with your drone? What concerning the Hoover Dam, or Mount Rushmore? Well, get your flights in, as a result of the FAA simply introduced a listing of nationwide landmarks that can be closed to drone flights beginning on October fifth. Yesterday …

Last week was, to say the least, very fascinating right here in the drone world. On the one hand, the Newton case was a decisive win for the drone trade. In transient, final week a court docket in Newton, MA struck down a number of drone ordinances for being in direct …

While corporations like Flirtey and Amazon Prime Air have made loads of noise about drone deliveries over the previous couple of years, Flytrex has been working quietly away. All of that work got here to fruition just a few weeks in the past, when Flytrex launched the primary ongoing drone supply operation …

InterDrone is off and operating! FAA Administrator Michael Huerta simply delivered the primary keynote discuss right here on the convention. Although we had been keen to listen to any new stats from the FAA, we additionally loved listening to about Huerta’s imaginative and prescient of collaboration between personal and public …

We are pumped to announce The Big Drone Show as our newest neighborhood sponsor. Why are we pumped? The Big Drone Show is Canada’s premier drone occasion and it’s chickening out in Toronto, Canada September 27th and 28th. The staff behind it are wonderful innovators and are doing spectacular work …