Rotor & Wing Magazine :: Australian Incident Highlights UAV Dangers
The Civil Aviation Safety Authority says the UAV in this incident was
most likely a first person view UAV, with a video fixed inside or
outside the UAV allowing the operator to fly it remotely whilst looking
through a pair of goggles or at a screen. CASA says these UAVs account
for more than 90 percent of all complaints received about UAVs. CASA
points out that UAVs are restricted to operations below 400 feet AGL
unless the operator has been granted approval.
Avionics Magazine :: FAA Mulls Film, TV Commercial UAS Applications
Aviation Today :: Drone Dread
Two parts of the Roadmap seem quite sensible and are unlikely to
change: a safe harbor at low altitudes for small drones that fly within
sight of their operators – otherwise known as “microdrones” – and more
demanding requirements for larger drones that rub shoulders with manned
aircraft. We call these “machodrones.” The machodrones, like manned
aircraft after 2020, will have to be equipped with automatic dependent
surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) to tell everyone their position,
altitude, speed, and direction of flight at least once every second. The
drones themselves will have to have airworthiness certificates, and
their operators – we call them DRoneOPerators or “DROPs,” will have to
be certified under requirements resembling present pilot standards and
processes.
The safe harbor for microdrones is not too different from that suggested by FAA
for remotely controlled model aircraft: below 400 feet, subject to a
weight limitation. They will have to stay near their operators and stay
away from airports.
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