Comments on: UAV Challenges, Pluses and Minuses — and Your Questions https://www.gpsworld.com/uav-challenges-pluses-and-minuses-and-your-questions/ The Business and Technology of Global Navigation and Positioning Wed, 08 Aug 2018 02:03:30 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.9.7 By: Eric Gakstatter https://www.gpsworld.com/uav-challenges-pluses-and-minuses-and-your-questions/#comment-39282 Wed, 01 Jan 2014 18:06:48 +0000 https://www.gpsworld.com/?p=25837#comment-39282 In reply to Marcus UAV.

According to the FAA, commercial or business operation of UAVs in the U.S., no matter what the UAV size is or altitude flown, is illegal. I wrote a two-part series on this for Geospatial Solutions, the second installment published just a few days ago.

http://geospatial-solutions.com/is-it-legal-to-fly-drones-in-the-united-states/

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By: Marcus UAV https://www.gpsworld.com/uav-challenges-pluses-and-minuses-and-your-questions/#comment-39259 Wed, 01 Jan 2014 03:14:30 +0000 https://www.gpsworld.com/?p=25837#comment-39259 In reply to Corey Zeimen.

Also, right now smaller commercial UAV’s are flown by operators that can take control at a moments notice so the danger is not near what you may think.

Current regulations do say it is possible to fly LEGALLY if you keep it under 400 ft, within line of sight, and can take physical control over the aircraft at any time which all of our products offer.

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By: Corey Zeimen https://www.gpsworld.com/uav-challenges-pluses-and-minuses-and-your-questions/#comment-39258 Wed, 01 Jan 2014 03:10:04 +0000 https://www.gpsworld.com/?p=25837#comment-39258 In reply to Eric Gakstatter.

Object avoidance technology is certainly in the works for the commercial UAV market as prototypes are already out there and reliance on GPS for navigation decreases.

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By: Taiwo https://www.gpsworld.com/uav-challenges-pluses-and-minuses-and-your-questions/#comment-39219 Tue, 31 Dec 2013 04:47:24 +0000 https://www.gpsworld.com/?p=25837#comment-39219 Can AUVs also find applications in photo geology, geophysic wrt airborne surveys.?

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By: Taiwo https://www.gpsworld.com/uav-challenges-pluses-and-minuses-and-your-questions/#comment-39218 Tue, 31 Dec 2013 04:45:39 +0000 https://www.gpsworld.com/?p=25837#comment-39218 Question. Can UAVs be used to carry out geological field mapping hence producing topographical maps? Can It also serve as a spy plane to fight terrorism in Nigeria, snapping photographs,videos and sending back gps location of boko haram terrorists in Nigeria. Will it also have to work with or without a space satellite saving the country millions of dollars?

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By: Jim Horn https://www.gpsworld.com/uav-challenges-pluses-and-minuses-and-your-questions/#comment-38582 Thu, 19 Dec 2013 01:12:36 +0000 https://www.gpsworld.com/?p=25837#comment-38582 Just to note – the Navy’s Small Tactical UAS (STUAS) is not the Insitu ScanEagle but the Insitu RQ-21A, similar to Insitu’s Integrator. The former has had most of a million combat hours over the years. The latter is a newer, larger and heavier “pickup truck” with much greater payload capability and flexibility. Both use the Skyhook recovery system you describe, for which GPS is a key technology.

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By: Eric Gakstatter https://www.gpsworld.com/uav-challenges-pluses-and-minuses-and-your-questions/#comment-38081 Fri, 13 Dec 2013 18:26:48 +0000 https://www.gpsworld.com/?p=25837#comment-38081 In reply to John.

That is the $1,000,000 question. The FAA is ultra-conservative, so I think that’s why ADS-B is part of the discussion.

But, I think the bigger challenge are going to be the inexpensive, small UAVs deployed by farmers or local consultants for mapping. While the FAA thinks their rules are clear, just this week I heard a UAV vendor tell farmers at a small conference that it is legal for farmers to fly UAVs above their own property. The FAA will say this is clearly not allowed based on the current FAA rules.

However, the fact is that the FAA rules are ambiguous. Some even claim that current FAA rules are only policy, and not enforceable regulation. The judicial system will have to rule on this. I’ll have a detailed article about this in Geospatial Solutions later this month.

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By: John https://www.gpsworld.com/uav-challenges-pluses-and-minuses-and-your-questions/#comment-38039 Fri, 13 Dec 2013 03:03:07 +0000 https://www.gpsworld.com/?p=25837#comment-38039 I am just a rancher using my airplane to fly over the ranch and vicinity and other localities. If there’s a UAV doing a aerial survey to look at wetlands, prairie dog towns and the like, is it going to break off from its survey route to avoid me?

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