{"id":2451,"date":"2014-11-22T22:18:47","date_gmt":"2014-11-23T02:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/?p=2451"},"modified":"2018-05-13T18:50:18","modified_gmt":"2018-05-13T22:50:18","slug":"faa-abuzz-over-drone-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/faa-abuzz-over-drone-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"FAA abuzz over drone technology"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Drones, otherwise known as unmanned aerial systems, initially came to the public consciousness of the U.S. in its utilization for U.S. military\/intelligence operations overseas.<\/p>\n

But in the past decade, companies in the private sector have found other uses for it relating to commerce, entertainment, agriculture, public safety and journalism.<\/p>\n

Upon a developing industry, it has been under the jurisdiction of the Federal Aviation Administration to regulate the technology. Starting in 2005, the FAA released an interim policy for approving drones for domestic use and explained that the FAA\u2019s policy on careless operation of an aircraft also applies to drones.<\/p>\n

In 2007, the FAA issued another statement, \u201cNo person may operate a UAS in the National Airspace without specific authority.\u201d They explained that businesses and public entities such as government agencies and universities must apply for a certificate from the FAA to use drones in domestic airspace. Public entities constitute as commercial use according to the FAA.<\/p>\n

Without a formal policy by the FAA and an agency that hasn\u2019t even articulated a policy on privacy regarding drones, it\u2019s sure to lead to individual state and local governments to decide such matters, which could potentially be harmful.<\/p>\n

Although, surprisingly, the state of Florida passed a law last year significantly limiting the use of drones by law enforcement agencies by requiring a judges approval on a case to case basis. But according to the Miami Herald, there\u2019s only 3 law enforcement entities in Florida that have drones at this time, the Miami-Dade Police Department and the Orange and Polk County Sheriff\u2019s Offices.<\/p>\n

In recent months, there has been much criticism about the FAA \u2018s stifling innovation from educators, which could potentially be a dead-end argument along ideological lines. But let\u2019s look at it closely.<\/p>\n

Dozens of universities have created degree and certificate programs related to drones, one of them being Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University that offers programs related to UAS\u2019s. Although ERAU has gotten authorization from the FAA, there are tight restrictions much like any other school that has similar programs.<\/p>\n

When students work with drones, the drones have to be tethered to the ground.<\/p>\n

Professors have criticized this policy because it\u2019s very straining for both researching this technology, utilizing it in various ways and teaching students within academia. In the defense of the FAA, it\u2019s to avoid collisions of other aircraft. There have been an ample amount of cases where this has nearly happened. But the problem of this argument is that the FAA\u2019s policies are not consistent on how they treat \u201chobbyists\u201d who operate drones and colleges that offer drone programs and for one reason or another considers it commercial.<\/p>\n

If anything, hobbyists and educational institutions should have to comply to the same standards.<\/p>\n

But at the same time, the policies the FAA has set forth so far are not permanent by any means. In fact, Congress has pushed a mandate on the FAA that requires them to formulate regulations to completely integrate drones in domestic airspace by 2015.
\nIf, in the passing of these regulations, they are more relaxed for educational institutions, these very institutions should be adamant in teaching their students, the people who will be furthering this technology of the human factors involved including privacy issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Drones, otherwise known as unmanned aerial systems, initially came to the public consciousness of the U.S. in its utilization for U.S. military\/intelligence operations overseas. But in the past decade, companies in the private sector have found other uses for it relating to commerce, entertainment, agriculture, public safety and journalism. Upon Continue reading FAA abuzz over drone technology<\/span>→<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2434,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2452,"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2451\/revisions\/2452"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}