The Feds have taken notice of drones and started cracking down on bad actors ranging from fines of thousands of dollars all ...

The FAA will not require a commercial pilot certificate for drone operations. The FAA considered requiring drone pilots to obtain a commercial pilot certificate, have a Class II medical ...

For drone pilots who aren’t sure about where they can fly their machine, the FAA’s B4UFLY app for iOS and Android is a useful ...

The FAA is taking aim at drone pilots who don’t respect the rules of the sky. The agency last week said that between October 2022 and June 2024, it levied $341,413 in civil penalties against 27 ...

The FAA also can suspend or revoke drone operators’ pilot certificates. “Violating the drone regulations puts lives at risk in the air and on the ground,” said FAA Administrator Mike Whitaker. “Flying ...

“It’s absolutely prudent to look at how we can improve the FAA and airlines as a whole,” he added. Co-pilot Andreas Lubitz “deliberately” locked himself inside the cockpit alone and ...

Likewise, quadcopter pilots don’t want ... down on a neighborhood, so ‘drone’ is verboten. The preferred term is quadcopters, tricopters, multicopters, flying wings, fixed-wing remote ...

Southern New Hampshire University’s Unmanned Aircraft Systems Certificate preps graduates to become certified remote pilots. In 2018, more than 1 million drones had been registered with the Federal ...

A drone flying overhead Comerica ... and another for certified remote pilots, operators who fly for commercial, government or other reasons, according to the FAA. This falls under what's known ...

In this week's episode of Weekly Wings, hosts Paul Rossi, Samuel Stansberry, and Terry Neff cover a range of innovations and industry updates.

Transwing aircraft unfold their wings to transition smoothly and quickly between vertical and horizontal flight, overcoming limitations inherent in traditional VTOL designs by combining the speed, ...