davidk2020 wrote:
Baloney:
"The Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International, a trade group, projects 70,000 jobs and $13.6 billion in economic impact will be created in the U.S. within three years of drones being allowed to fully share the skies. Amazon, Google and Walmart are testing drones for deliveries.
"Huerta said research is continuing for automated programming over congested areas that would be required for deliveries, but he did not set a time frame for approving those sorts of flights.
'"The department is working cooperatively with industry," Huerta said. "We certainly see the benefit of this. What we need to see is that it can be done safely."'
Which is to say that the FAA compiled a consistent set of rules for small operators with simple requirements, and that they're still working in cooperation with industries that have more complicated needs. The objective is not now, nor has it ever been, to "destroy commercial operations."
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That's good! I hope they follow through or the Chinese will put in a hole with this kind of technology.