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Drone Drain: How The Faa Can Avoid Draining (And Instead Spur) The American Drone Industry By Adding Nuance To Its Draft Small Uas Rules, Brooks Lindsay

Washington Journal of Law, Technology & Arts

The Federal Aviation Administration has done much right in the past few months with its draft small UAS rules, but should add nuance to the draft to avoid draining America’s nascent drone industry. This Article, which was submitted as an official comment to the FAA by the University of Washington’s world-renowned College of Engineering, recommends five essential modifications to enable American competitiveness in this field. First, the FAA should maintain the line-of-sight requirement as a baseline, but allow uses beyond line-of-sight for pilots and aircraft certified to fly with First-Person View or autonomous technology. Second, the FAA should create exceptions …