Operators of small drones in the United States would be permitted to fly the devices at night and above people on the ground according to rules that the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) says it plans to propose soon.
Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, in remarks prepared for delivery Monday at the annual meeting of the Transportation Research Board, said the initiatives will be “a major step forward in enabling the safe development, testing and deployment of drones in our country.”
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), in a draft document intended for publication at an unspecified date in the Federal Register, said that the proposed new rules would be “the next step in the FAA’s incremental approach to integrating UAS [unmanned aircraft systems] into the National Airspace System (NAS), based on demands for increased operational flexibility and the experience FAA has gained” since the existing regulations were first presented.
Specifically, the pr…
