FAA Looking to Approve Drone Flights over People

It won't happen tomorrow, but eventually this will happen.

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The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is looking at what the rules will be to allow drone flights over people. As noted in a recent blog post, State Farm recently garnered a waiver for this very thing already.

Read Groundbreaking U.S. Plan Would Permit Drone Flights Over Crowds.

I figure it could take two years before the rule-making is done. With the FAA granting individual waivers to specific companies and uses, they will learn a great deal from those pilot endeavors. 

Steve Myers shared the Bloomberg story/link above.

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Eric Holdeman is a contributing writer for Emergency Management magazine and is the former director of the King County, Wash., Office of Emergency Management.