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Kathleen Martin
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In front of a packed Mirage Theater in Las Vegas, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) administrator, Stephen Dickson, delivered a riveting speech in which he recounted the comprehensive chronology that has taken our industry this far and then outlined his agency’s plans for short-, medium-, and long-term regulation.
“I want to thank all of you for being here, your presence, your leadership, your engagement, speak volumes to me, and it's so important to the innovation that's going on right now. Over the last 18 months as we all know a lot of these events have had to go virtual,” Administrator Dickson said. “But our work to move forward together to safely scale and integrate routine drone operations into the National Airspace has continued to move at a rapid pace. In many respects, you know, I truly think this is the most exciting period in aviation aerospace history.”
Administrator Dickson systematically addressed various aspects of current regulation and offered the riveted audience a blueprint of the Agency’s plans for the drone industry.
“At the FAA, we're focused on establishing drone policy that ensures safe integration into the Airspace System. But at the same time, doesn't stifle the advances in the innovation that we see happening in places like Georgia Tech and from many of the folks in this room. The public perception, though, fully expects all aspects of aviation to be as safe as commercial airlines have become.” Dickson said.
When addressing the role his agency is playing in the massive deployment of unmanned vehicles into the national airspace (NAS), Dickson detailed his vision for his administration.
“My role as FAA administrator is to figure out how to support these emerging technologies, while maintaining the unwavering safety commitment that the public has come to expect from the Agency. Finding this balance is especially challenging, because it crosses so many domains, regulations, infrastructure, technology, operations, and societal perceptions. So, we are taking a systems approach and an enterprise-wide approach in which we can no longer give approvals and look at issues by individual FAA lines of business, we really have to take a holistic enterprise approach to these issues.”
Continue reading: https://www.commercialuavnews.com/regulations/faa-administrator-stephen-dickson-addresses-the-drone-community-at-commercial-uav-expo-americas
“I want to thank all of you for being here, your presence, your leadership, your engagement, speak volumes to me, and it's so important to the innovation that's going on right now. Over the last 18 months as we all know a lot of these events have had to go virtual,” Administrator Dickson said. “But our work to move forward together to safely scale and integrate routine drone operations into the National Airspace has continued to move at a rapid pace. In many respects, you know, I truly think this is the most exciting period in aviation aerospace history.”
Administrator Dickson systematically addressed various aspects of current regulation and offered the riveted audience a blueprint of the Agency’s plans for the drone industry.
“At the FAA, we're focused on establishing drone policy that ensures safe integration into the Airspace System. But at the same time, doesn't stifle the advances in the innovation that we see happening in places like Georgia Tech and from many of the folks in this room. The public perception, though, fully expects all aspects of aviation to be as safe as commercial airlines have become.” Dickson said.
When addressing the role his agency is playing in the massive deployment of unmanned vehicles into the national airspace (NAS), Dickson detailed his vision for his administration.
“My role as FAA administrator is to figure out how to support these emerging technologies, while maintaining the unwavering safety commitment that the public has come to expect from the Agency. Finding this balance is especially challenging, because it crosses so many domains, regulations, infrastructure, technology, operations, and societal perceptions. So, we are taking a systems approach and an enterprise-wide approach in which we can no longer give approvals and look at issues by individual FAA lines of business, we really have to take a holistic enterprise approach to these issues.”
Continue reading: https://www.commercialuavnews.com/regulations/faa-administrator-stephen-dickson-addresses-the-drone-community-at-commercial-uav-expo-americas
