FAA eases restrictions on commercial drone use with long-awaited Part 107 ruling
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/faa-eases-restrictions-on-commercial-drone-use-with-long-awaited-part-107-ruling-2016-06-21 Under the new rules, drones still legally cannot fly over people or go past the operator's visual line of site, which means Amazon's plans for drone delivery will have to wait. Drones are restricted to flying only during daylight, which means Disney's ambitions of incorporating drones into nighttime entertainment also won't be possible at the moment. It also means that operations occurring at night, including search and rescue or firefighting, won't be legal either. Though, operators can apply for a waiver to be exempt from those two limitations. There's also concern about the testing requirement, which states that drone operators without a pilot's license need to take the test in-person. - - - --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein ([email protected]): http://www.vortex.com/lauren Founder: - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com Google+: http://google.com/+LaurenWeinstein Twitter: http://twitter.com/laurenweinstein Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com I have consulted to Google, but I am not currently doing so -- my opinions expressed here are mine alone. _______________________________________________ pfir mailing list http://lists.pfir.org/mailman/listinfo/pfir
