Drone Regulation – Page 2 – A Brave New Drone World

The Commercial Drone Alliance – Bully or Beneficial?

The CDA (Commercial Drone Alliance) is a group that (in their own words) “advocate for the commercial use of drones by reducing barriers to enable this game-changing technology.” The rest of their mission statement and goals can be found on their website (commercialdronealliance.org), but the first sentence is a big enough chunk to digest, forContinue reading “The Commercial Drone Alliance – Bully or Beneficial?”

Killing an All-American Drone Company

It seems that no sooner has an American company poised themselves to rule the commercial and recreational drone worlds than the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) seeks to shoot them down. In the face of a trade embargo with the (communist) Peoples’ Republic of China, of DHS (Department of Homeland Security) warnings of Chinese-made drones potentiallyContinue reading “Killing an All-American Drone Company”

Drones and Civil Disobedience

Civil disobedience has become rampant in the United States. This manifests not only as individuals ignoring laws they consider unfair or illegal, but entire municipalities -and even states- ignoring (or directly flaunting) national laws, on a variety of subjects. Both the political ‘left’ and the’right’ are involved in this; some municipalities and states insist onContinue reading “Drones and Civil Disobedience”

Legacy Drones and FAA Remote ID

Any decent plan for implementation of a new technology allows a path for integration with existing legacy technology. More precisely, any decent plan integrates the new technology seamlessly into the older (legacy) technology. These plans specify a phased approach to integrating the old technology and either upgrading it to work with the new, or toContinue reading “Legacy Drones and FAA Remote ID”

FAA: Closing the New View on the World

“Those rascals are smoking dope…or think we are”.

Drones: Opening a New View on the World

The relatively recent advent of recreational drones (especially ‘camera drones’) has opened up an entirely new view of the world, one up to now seen only by birds. Drones can fly where even airplanes can’t, and open up views of the world no human has seen before. Since the advent of these drones (and theContinue reading “Drones: Opening a New View on the World”