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Mashable: The FAA just proposed regulations for commercial drones.

“... frighteningly sensible ...”

02/15/15 • 05:48 PM • Hardware • Law • Motion Graphics • Photography • 1 Comment

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Only 10 years behind.
The line of sight rule effectively means real estate agents can photograph houses and wedding photogs get a new perspective.
Basically rules for remote control aircraft.

UAVs even down to some of the smallest are fully programmable, GPS based, waypoint following machines that can carry long flight plans with actions defined along the route.

So a utility company could just drop in the lat/lon for the poles that hold up the lines and UAVs could follow and sense the conditions. But not allowed.

One set of rules for everywhere is unnecessarily limiting. The FAA had paid for studies that showed the smartest way to regulate UAVs was to use population density to increasingly rachet up control. Ignored it.

So largely useless and yet it meets their mandate so no one gets to complain.

Posted by Emmett on 02/15/15 at 06:15 PM

 

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