Trouble in the FAA

The FAA Misses its Regulation Deadline

     In 2012, Congress sent an aviation funding bill to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). On that funding bill was a deadline that stated that by September of 2015, there has to be "drone laws" set for drone users. It is now October 27, 2015 and there are not any regulation set forth by the FAA. Michael Huerta, the chief of the FAA, is going to testify before THUD (Senate Appopriations Committee's Transportation, Housing and Urban Development) on Wednesday.

     This hearing is like a check-up. Lawmakers will be there to see what the FAA has done to add drones to the National Airspace System. From the looks of it, not much. Really all that has been done is creating the idea to register all drones (even the ones that are already out) so that there will be less interference with airplanes. Well, that and approving a little more than 1,700 drone flights below 200 feet. 

Michael Huerta, the FAA chief

     The FAA had about three years to set restriction on drones and they haven't really done anything. Even worse, people are complaining that making rules for drones is more important then issuing devices.