At the South by Southwest (SXSW) Conference held in Austin Monday, FAA Administrator Michael Huerta promised that the FAA was evolving their approach for drone integration. In his opening re... Read more
Commentary – It’s getting more and more complicated to figure out how to fly a drone without getting arrested. Connecticut mulls legislation prohibiting drones mounted with flam... Read more
Tech Freedom, the technology policy think tank, has sued the FAA to overturn the drone registration program. In a public statement, Tech Freedom says that rushing the policy through before... Read more
The deadline for drone registration is Friday, February 19, and the FAA is reminding drone owners to comply or face still penalties. The registration program applies to any drone weighing mo... Read more
FAA Administrator Michael Huerta says that the number of drones in the National Airspace has now eclipsed the number of piloted aircraft. Huerta reports that there have been more than 325,... Read more
The Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) have something else to march about: ALPA now wants Congress to require small drone owners to pass an online training course before being allowed to ope... Read more
Airline pilots in the UK are asking the government to impose stricter regulations on drones, citing four “near-miss” incidents at UK airports in a single month, the Guardian repo... Read more
With all of the gorgeous scenery found in the Bahamas, you’d think a drone with a camera would be one of the first things a tourist would throw in their suitcase. But in future, they... Read more
Researchers at the Mercatus Center of George Mason University have published public comments to the FAA on the drone registration program, calling the benefits “questionable” and... Read more
Yet another drone interest group has spoken out against the recent FAA drone regulations requiring registration of all drones greater than 250 grams. The Remote Control Aerial Platform Asso... Read more
While the FAA Drone Registration program has had extremely vocal critics and proponents, it looks like its “game on” now as a lawsuit challenging the legality of the program was... Read more
With drone registration merely the latest battleground, the war between state and local drone regulations and the FAA’s national regulations – such as they are- rages, leaving a... Read more
Rumors are flying on Twitter and other social media sites that the drone operators’ worst nightmare has begun: arrests are being made, fines are being levied, and the FAA is enforcing... Read more
FAA’s Drone Sightings Report: The Total Failure of Regulations
Commentary. The FAA has published a new drone sightings report, seemingly designed to defend their efforts to crack down on “rogue drones” and implement more draconian regulatio... Read more