The FAA has recognized for greater than a decade now that they have been going to be mandated to combine drones into the NAS. The 2012 FAA Reauthorization was signed into regulation. The September 2014 Half 107 rollout mandate got here and went in addition to the 2015 full NAS integration mandate. The FAA merely stated ATO wouldn’t be prepared and with none information to again up the assertion, it simply went away.
Sure, I had issues in regards to the FAA lacking the 2015 deadline in 2011. Why? As a result of there have been no penalties or ramifications stipulated within the reauthorization language for not assembly these deadlines. The opposite problem I had was an absence of FUN-ding, aka cash allotted to get the work executed. It has been my expertise that it’s troublesome to get authorities buy-in with out some FUN-ding.
So we had no Half 107 in 2014 and no NAS integration in 2015, however the excellent news was the FAA was able to make some progress on gathering information, in order that they rolled out Pathfinder. I don’t know what occurred to the LATAS resolution, however the FAA doubled down on BVLOS in 2018 with the usIPP after which tripled down with BEYOND!
Sadly, Pathfinder turned out to be a complete poop-show, with PrecisionHawk being out of compliance with their 107.31 BVLOS FAA favour waiver for 12 to fifteen months. The FAA’s Jeremy Grogan (AKA The Superb Grogan) and purported drone coverage skilled Diana Cooper decided throughout a brief telephone name, albeit hundreds of miles away from the AO, with out logbooks or a accountable social gathering listed on the waiver that all the purported fly-always, shoot downs and flyways have been protected.
Who wants an in-depth threat evaluation and or a web site go to whenever you’ve acquired some rumour and mystic powers? It makes good sense why HQ shut down two or three native FSDO investigations when you could have a few consultants like these working by the minutia. With a combo like that, it’s no marvel why the FAA enlisted the PrecisionHawk consultants for assist with the DAC and different rulemaking efforts. It
amazes of us that with that type of praxis at their disposal PrecisionHawk hit the
rocks.
https://www.suasnews.com/2019/06/asleep-at-the-bait-and-switch/
In any case, the mud died down, and no FAA enforcement actions have been initiated; many assumed that the de facto PrecisionHawk case examine proved that flying drones BVLOS safely within the NAS with out VOs or federal oversight is feasible. The 107.39 waivers not being revoked may recommend that the present rules and coverage may very well be unnecessarily onerous? The FAA didn’t even take a look at the Pathfinder information for over a yr; did they already know flying drones BVLOS within the NAS was protected?
Was the usIPP an effort to bolster the notion with information that confirmed what they already knew? Is that why this system was so restricted? I keep in mind a sure pundit who had misgivings about this system again in 2018, and now after studying the audit, it seems that I could have been proper.
I’m not an enormous fan of the ten winners UAS IPP as a result of I consider it’s too restricted for a Nation like this. I consider an actual UAS IPP ought to be inclusive of the Nation as a complete, all of collectively. One factor is for certain, there’s a new sheriff on the town, and should you’re not a UAS IPP winner you might need to take into consideration rewriting and even shopping for a brand new playbook.
https://www.suasnews.com/2018/05/uas-ipp-a-sea-change-for-the-us/
This newest audit from the U.S. Division of Transportations Workplace of the Inspector Basic and BEYOND contributors didn’t have an excessive amount of reward for the FAA’s progress on the entire physique of labor.
https://www.oig.dot.gov/library-item/38940
I’m not going to interrupt down the audit as I recommend you learn it for your self, presumably twice, as was really helpful to me by somebody on the FAA. The punch line on the audit is a few pragmatic suggestions to assist the FAA meet its 2015 NAS integration mandate.
I do know Amazon has acquired some billion-dollar crawl, stroll, run desires –
Certain, at first blush it feels like a multitude, and it’s no marvel the FAA is tight-lipped. Imagine it or not, the audit is the DoT OIG being gracious, however no matter shade of lipstick they placed on that pig, your humble writer is vindicated but once more.
I actually hope this audit doesn’t put a damper on the BVLOS ARC suggestions. Of us are so excited and are clamouring for the FAA to implement the suggestions as is. Nevertheless, I solely see the potential for extra points. Don’t overlook to get permission to ask questions on the Fb broadcast. I’m interested by asking this one once more.
- Did anybody on the FAA know that DJI had CCP/PRC funding?
https://www.suasnews.com/2019/08/did-dji-bamboozle-you-too/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/02/01/china-funding-
drones-dji-us-regulators/
The DoD vendor corporations that held the reins on the regulatory course of (pre-PRC rulemaking involvement), together with the ASTM, RTCA, sUAS, and UAS ARC, are again.
These are a number of the identical of us who made the suggestions on Half 107. Certain they make the drone “nobody makes use of anymore,” however that doesn’t imply they don’t know what they’re speaking about for small companies, proper? Simply curious, how did you spend your NASA ACCESS 5 free cash? Oh, you didn’t get any?
One of many many rubs right here is the FAA nonetheless wants information twenty to thirty years on. Heck, the DoT OIG contends the FAA nonetheless wants to ascertain objectives, milestones, and efficiency measures. I hesitated even bringing this up once more for the umpteenth time in twenty years as a result of I didn’t need to sound like I used to be nitpicking. Laborious to implement something whenever you’ve acquired nothing however exemptions, favour waivers, and a
Regulation and Coverage group demotion.
Some contend that the FAA’s single-source DoD vendor trade industrial conjecture enter subsequently created a vacuum that allowed the CCP/PRC to waltz in, make investments a billion-plus {dollars}, and take the 20-year expertise lead from the USA.
The FAA ban decimated the home, industrial UAS trade, and a number of the following haphazard insurance policies rocked the RC interest.
Did the CCP/PRC get an excellent ROI on their US coverage efforts?
The one different market indicator you want is to ask what number of Fortune 500 corporations have already gotten out of drones and why?
Initially revealed within the 2022 Small Unmanned Techniques Enterprise Journal
https://www.suasnews.com/2022/06/the-2022-small-unmanned-systems-business-journal-2/
