{"id":2188,"date":"2014-07-24T12:40:51","date_gmt":"2014-07-24T12:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/?p=2188"},"modified":"2014-07-24T12:40:51","modified_gmt":"2014-07-24T12:40:51","slug":"response-swells-in-final-days-of-faa-drone-comment-period","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/2014\/07\/24\/response-swells-in-final-days-of-faa-drone-comment-period\/","title":{"rendered":"Response swells in final days of FAA drone comment period"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.examiner.com\/drones-in-san-francisco\/edie-sellers\">Edie Sellers<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.examiner.com\/drones-in-san-francisco\/edie-sellers\">SF Drones Examiner<\/a><\/p>\n<p>After more than two weeks of barely registering a blip on the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.examiner.com\/topic\/federal-aviation-administration\">Federal Aviation Administration<\/a>&#8216;s radar, a late wave of interested members of the public have taken to the Internet and weighed in on proposed\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.examiner.com\/topic\/regulations\">regulations<\/a>\u00a0on domestic use of drones.<\/p>\n<p>On June 23, The FAA\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.faa.gov\/news\/press_releases\/news_story.cfm?newsId=16474&amp;cid=TW223\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">opened public comment<\/a>\u00a0for the interpretation of its\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.regulations.gov\/#!docketDetail;D=FAA-2014-0396\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Special Rule for Model Aircraft<\/a>, which covers radio-controlled planes and helicopters and drones for commercial and hobby use.<\/p>\n<p>The comment period launched in conjunction with the agency&#8217;s publication of an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.faa.gov\/about\/initiatives\/uas\/model_aircraft_operators\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">advisory notice<\/a>\u00a0stating that model aircraft and drones should &#8220;not interfere with manned aircraft, be flown within sight of the operator and be operated only for hobby or recreational purposes.&#8221; In addition the guidelines state that operators flying within five miles of an airport must notify the airport operator and air traffic control tower.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.examiner.com\/article\/response-swells-final-days-of-faa-drone-comment-period\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.examiner.com\/article\/response-swells-final-days-of-faa-drone-comment-period<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edie Sellers\u00a0SF Drones Examiner After more than two weeks of barely registering a blip on theFederal Aviation Administration&#8216;s radar, a late wave of interested members of the public have taken to the Internet and weighed in on proposed\u00a0regulations\u00a0on domestic use of drones. On June 23, The FAA\u00a0opened public comment\u00a0for the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,16,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drone","category-eaa","category-suas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2189,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2188\/revisions\/2189"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}