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Not an Airplane Pilot? You Won't Be Flying Commercial Drones
Here’s a regulatory riddle no one has yet solved: Does it take an airplane pilot to fly a small drone?
Right now there’s no simple route to using a drone legally in U.S. airspace for commercial purposes. But no shortage of industries expect to make unmanned aerial vehicles—and their human pilots—a part of the future workforce. The list includes everyone from real estate developers and electrical utilities to farmers and filmmakers. As the Federal Aviation Administration finishes its first draft of new rules this month, business interests have closely monitored requirements for drone pilots. If regulators regard the person at the controls as akin to a private pilot, it would mean upwards of 40 flight hours at a cost of up to $10,000, limiting to pool of workers qualified for the job.
Rapere: An Intercept Drone to Seek and Destroy Other Drones
As drones get cheaper to buy and easier to use, they’re also going to get more and more annoying. Back when they were expensive and complicated and fragile and having one was a big deal, people would be careful with them, and flying them would be enough of an event that you wouldn’t be thinking about all the ways in which it’s possible to use drones to do things that are (at best) obnoxious or (slightly worse) illegal or (way worse) recklessly dangerous.
Chinese drone maker - DJI - takes lead in fast-growing market
Founded in 2009 by an engineer with a childhood love of radio-controlled model planes, DJI has become the world's biggest supplier of civilian drones — possibly the first Chinese company to achieve that status in any consumer industry.
Eric Cheng, Director of Aerial Imaging, DJI presents at TTI/Vanguard's [next] 2014
Aerial Imaging: A Conversation and Demo
Eric Cheng, Director of Aerial Imaging, DJI, and Mike Hawley, TTI/Vanguard Advisory Board
Until recently, RF-controlled fliers were limited to hobbyists and the military. Two years, DJI introduced its first easy-to-fly, stable, yet agile quadcopters with GoPro mounts. Last month, the company announced its Inspire-1, with a modular design that comes initially with a 4K-video, 12-megapixel camera. The lens consists of 9 separate elements, including an aspherical element, for extreme clarity. Applications range from Hollywood films to farming.
RFTC: Drone User Group Network (DUGN) National Conference in Dallas, Texas
The Roswell Flight Test Crew visits the first-ever Drone User Group Network (DUGN) National Conference, held at the Frontiers of Flight Museum at Love Field in Dallas, Texas, on September 13, 2014. At the event, DUGN founder Timothy Reuter announced the winner of the Drone Social Innovation Award, as well as plans to hold next year's event in Oregon. Other presentations looked at the use of drones in search and rescue, disaster relief, environmental conservation and aerial photography, as well as gathering performance data to demonstrate the reliability of drones, open-source programming for 3D Robotics flight control systems and regulatory issues. Speakers included: North Texas Drone User Group leader Chad Frazer; certified fisheries biologist Trent Lews of PondMedics; Rich Hanson, Government and Regulatory Affairs Director for the Academy of Model Aeronautics; Jim Blanchard of the UAS Academy; 3D Robotics software developer Jonathan Challinger; Paul Lake, the founder and executive director of the Search One Rescue Team; Mina Chang and Charles Devaney of Linking the World; and, Gene Robinson of RP Flight Systems, Inc.
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