Federal aviation officials estimate that there will be 600,000 commercial drone aircrafts operating in the USA within the year.
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The new regulation will not only streamline the approval process for commercial drone users, but it’ll also help the economy.
“Today is a very important milestone in the evolution of our efforts to safely integrate unmanned aircraft into our national airspace system”, Huerta said. They can only fly drones during daylight, within sight, and no higher than 400 feet from the ground.
Long-awaited federal drone regulations took effect Monday, making it easier for businesses to use drones for commercial purposes and driving potential growth of Georgia’s drone industry.
Rolfs says these regulations open up more opportunities for how drones can be used.
“The company’s grown. I actually have an employee now”, Farmer said.
During the press conference Monday, Foxx said, “Over the next ten years, commercial unmanned aircraft systems will generate more than $82 billion for the USA economy and by 2025 could support 100,000 new jobs”. In a case where a company needs to fly outside of the operational restrictions, the company can apply for a waiver.
Drone operators no longer need to graduate flight school and get a pilot’s license.
Keep the drone within sight at all times.
We are in “one of the most dramatic periods of change in the history of transportation”, US Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx has said. Joe Mora, with the FAA, says an example is a waiver that allows drone operation at night.
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“With the true American entrepreneurial spirit we’re going to see a lot of markets emerge that we don’t even know exist yet”, Hupy said. “That will take a different set of rules”, he said. That’s well above the usual three or four people per month taking FAA exams there, Johnson said. “It’s better for all of us involved”. The unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can’t go faster than 100 miles per hour and can only operate during the daytime, by an operator that has qualified for a flying certificate and passed a written test.
