Tote, hide your V2, cause I'm sending a Heavy down, to pick up, and deliver it to me, so I can blast it off with a mix of Hydrogen-Oxygen Fuel, to hit North Korea, and Iran, hope it can carry enough fuel to be a ICBM...... Rick, stay indoors, I'm gonna steal you toupee and wig. Ron, Ricky says he's gonna' send a drone down to steal you bunker stash of cheetos. Everyone else hit the deck.........this could be a freeway nightmare like mess, if parameters are not set ASAP...... http://aviationweek.com/commercial-...m=email&elq2=a262a429406e4705a328bed15d3c14d2 A top FAA official has said as many as one million small UAVs could be sold during the upcoming U.S. holiday season. Speaking at the Airlines for America (A4A) Commercial Aviation Industry Summit in Washington, Swayze said FAA is trying to get in front of the sales surge to inform the public about safety issues associated with small UAVs. “We’re trying to get out and educate people about potential dangers,” he said. Swayze explained that FAA plans to send a representative to a pre-Christmas staff meeting at U.S. retail giant Walmart to educate salespeople selling small UAVs on how to inform consumers about operating UAVs safely. Walmart advertises 19 different “drones” online, ranging in price from $19.99-274.95. “A lot of people who don’t have a pilot background are operating these things in the airspace,” Swayze said. Hawaiian Airlines CEO Mark Dunkerley, also speaking at the A4A conference, added, “From an operating perspective, [small UAVs are] a very serious issue and there’s considerable concern that it’s going to end in tears . . . It’s not just in and around airports where drones present a danger to the traveling public. There are many areas outside of 5 mi. of an airport where a drone conflict could occur.” U.S. Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.), the ranking member on the House of Representatives Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, said, “A lot of what pilots are seeing is irresponsible use of toys. The toys, in my opinion, should be set up so they can’t be sold unless they’re geo-fenced for altitude and perimeters.” Swayze said a difficult aspect of developing regulations for UAVs is that there are so many different interests that need to be addressed. “I’ve been in D.C. for 15 years now working on policy and I’ve never seen so many divergent interests driving one topic,” he explained. “One day it’s safety concerns, the next day it’s ‘we’ve got to get these incorporated into the airspace as soon as possible,’ the next day it’s privacy concerns and then the next day it’s security—are these things going to be armed? So it’s really up and down.”
