Interested in becoming a Commercial Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) remote pilot or already flying without the required Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Certification? You’re in luck! The Purdue ...

The FAA dropped its initial recommendation that would have required commercial UAV operators to hold a pilot’s license, a stipulation that experts feared would have stifled the booming drone ...

Since releasing its Part 107 Small Unmanned Aircraft System rule on Aug. 29, the FAA as of Nov. 9 had received more than 30,000 new aircraft registrations from commercial operators and more than ...

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has granted a blanket approval to Sinclair, Inc. for the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), or “drones,” over people and cars. Typically, pilots ...

Look alive, stateside drone pilots: the Federal Aviation Administration's initial set of operational rules for commercial UAV flights officially goes into effect today. Those rules were finalized ...

More than 100 control towers and airports have been added to the hundreds of Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) air traffic facilities and airports that currently use the Low Altitude Authorization ...

How To Become A Small Unmanned Aircraft System Drone Pilot. ... A person must successfully pass the test for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Part 107 Remote Pilot Certification.

Unlike other FAA certificates, there is no required drone pilot ground school curriculum to take the UAG Unmanned Aircraft General – Small knowledge test. However, you still need to prepare for ...

The FAA has already granted special permission for more than 5,300 commercial drone uses while it developed the final rules. Tuesday's action opens the floodgates to tens of thousands more because ...

We respectfully request a meeting with the FAA officials in charge of this rollout, at their earliest convenience, to discuss the recommendations in this letter. We focus in this letter on the ...

Since publishing its small-UAS rule Aug. 29, the FAA received more than 30,000 new-aircraft registrations from commercial operators, and more than 22,500 remote-pilot applications.