RE: FAA's notice of proposed rulemaking
Jason:
Are you also a member of RTCA SC-203. If not, I would recommend that you also participate in this activity. We are working on the MASPS for UAS, Command and Control and Detect, See and Avoid for UAS. if you want link to the KSN site, drop me a line.
There are many other people working this issue right now, and I wouldnt be surprised to see some sort of draft doc before the end of the year.
Also, I would most assuredly disagree that the FAA doesn't know anything about our hobby. The DFO on SC-203 is a pattern guy in addition to working UAV issues for FAA. At least 5 people in our meeting of 18 people flyRC, and those include guys that are flying MQ-1 and MQ-9, so commercial guys do know something about our hobby.
If you visit the AeroViroment mfg facility, half (or more) of the guys working in the mfg area's are RC guys and work on their own projects and bring their enthusiam and expertise to help make products like Desert Hawk and others work so well.
is F38 continuing their efforts? i know they published a standard, but what else are they going to be working on?
I'm glad that someone is taking about this, because when i read the letter in MA, i was not pleased to see a reference to 18000 feet as "not smart". why are we mentioning 18000 feet at all. its like waving a red flag in front of a bull to the FAA
We are also not doing ourselves any favors by advertising gyro stabilized camera platforms for "performing aerial photography in your neighborhood" and then saying that we don't want any regulation.
Its gonna happen, but i think that the guys who are just hobbiests, like most of the AMA members, are not going to be really inconvienced.
and i don't know where 1000 feet came from. when i checked the data from my EagleTreeSystems DFDR, I showed 600 plus feet and it didnt seem that high to me, but without a visual reference, its kinda hard to tell. the jet guys pulling aloop?? im thinking that 1000 feet is not gonna cut it. and i think that the pattern guys regularly exceed 400 feet.
just my 4 cents (inflation).