One commercial use of drones is for videography. Great, dynamic shots can be had by the use of drones that are either impossible or cost prohibitive by helicopter.
When one of these things causes an injury or death, the same people writing articles like this will then do a 180 and want to know, “why wasn't the FAA doing something about this?”
If you are going to get the blame one way or the other, might was well get out the hammer. Better to be hung for a wolf than for a sheep.
The FAA - The only thing standing between us and Air Safety.
The FAA - The only thing standing between us and progress.
The FAA - They’re not happy, til you’re not happy.
Being a recovering aerospace engineer I have a fairly good opinion of the FAA. You won’t find many creative types in the FAA and there is ZERO tolerance for common sense. If the book says “commercial use” then they will enforce “commercial use.” This will likely change but lobbyists will need to be employed to change the rules.
Everybody get your drones & meet ya at the airport!
I understand they turn down requests from the Forestry people who want to use drones to search for lost hikers, etc. ???
I thought airspace below a certain altitude over your property was not under the FAAs jurisdiction - anyone know for sure?
Private drones aren’t going to be around long anyway. Somebody is going to use one for a political assassination or load one with a few ounces of nitro and collide it with a jet taking off and that will be the end of them, along with just about any new tech gadgets. Imagine driverless car bombs. The future is over and you can point to this post.