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Congressional report says that FAA’s commercial drone rules are too strict and prevent our society to benefit from UAS

Congressional report says that FAA’s commercial drone rules are too strict and prevent our society to benefit from UAS

Avatar for Haye Kesteloo Jun 12 2018

According to the report, mandated by Congress, the FAA’s rules for commercial drone operations are too strict, preventing the society to benefit from the life-saving potential unmanned aerial systems (UAS) offer. Instead of adhering to a near-zero risk tolerance, the agency should balance the risks associated with drones with their potential advantages. The report urges the FAA to compare the risk posed by small drones to other risks the public is willing to accept such as driving a car, crossing a street or swimming in the ocean.

The FAA's Earl Lawrence, X's James Burgess and Amazon's Gur Kimchi discuss drone package delivery. Photo AUVSI

Amazon’s Prime Air may begin delivering packages by drone sooner than you think

Avatar for Haye Kesteloo Mar 14 2018

Amazon Prime Air and other companies may begin delivering packages by drone as soon as this summer, according to federal regulators and industry officials. Since late last year, the White House has started to put more pressure on the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to work with companies to make delivering packages by drone a reality. At the FAA UAS Symposium last week it became clear that drone deliveries may be here sooner than we think as federal officials promised drone proponents: “We’ll help you get there.”

Medical supplies and blood deliveries could open up the skies for routine drone deliveries

Avatar for Haye Kesteloo Mar 13 2018

One of the best examples of drone deliveries must be Zipline’s blood and medical supply delivery system in Rwanda. The San Francisco-based company has successfully used drones to fly “more than 187,500 miles, delivering 7,000 units of blood over 7,500 flights” since they launched their service in Africa. Could medical cargo, where to benefit from using a drone to deliver the supplies seems most obvious, open up the skies for routine drone deliveries?

FAA Symposium – Drone identification and new powers to mitigate the clueless, the careless, and the criminals

Avatar for Haye Kesteloo Mar 7 2018

According to a Federal Aviation Administration official, there are 10 times more drones registered in the US than manned aircraft. And, as we know, so many unmanned aerial vehicles in the hands of consumers has led to many drone incidents as well. Federal officials are urgently looking to mitigate the risk of drones in the hands of “the clueless, the careless, and the criminals” by introducing drone identification and new powers for the Justice Department and the Department of Homeland Security to track, disrupt and bring down unmanned aerial vehicles that pose a threat to security.

UAS IPP: Amazon, DJI are out. Airbus, Alphabet (Google), Apple, AT&T, Microsoft, Fedex, Uber and others are in.

Avatar for Haye Kesteloo May 10 2018

Yesterday the U.S. Department of Transportation announced the 10 pilot programmes that have been approved under President Trump’s Unmanned Aircraft Systems Integration Pilot Program (UAS IPP) in an effort to bring the country up to speed when it comes to drone experimentation. Yesterday we published the list of awardees and today we are reporting on the companies that made the list such as Airbus, Alphabet (Google), Apple, AT&T, Microsoft, FedEx, Uber, and others. As well as the ones that did not make the list, most notably Amazon and DJI.