4, the "FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018," a five-year bill to reauthorize the programs of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). During debate. Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-OR), ranking member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, made a final effort to remove statutory ...
Section 376. Plan for full operational capability of unmanned aircraft systems traffic management.This section directs the FAA, in consultation with other Federal agencies as appropriate, to develop a plan to allow for the implementation of UAS traffic management (UTM) services. As part of the imp...
More than two years after the underlying legislation was first introduced, the House of Representatives voted on April 27, 2018 to pass theFAA Reauthorization Act of 2018(H.R. 4; the “Act”), a five-year reauthorization of the nation’s aviation programs. The breakthrough came after House...
The Reauthorization Act also includes provisions focusing on the need to encourage more women to pursue careers in aviation, through the creation of a Women in Aviation Advisory Board. The board will look at what prevents women from pursuing careers in aviation, and has been asked to develop st...
The FAA developed TRUST after gathering input from the drone community in response to requirements included in theFAA Reauthorization Act of 2018mandating development of a test to demonstrate a recreational drone pilot’s understanding of aeronautical safety knowledge and rules for operating unmanned air...
The last FAA reauthorization bill was passed in 2012 with the FAA Reform and Reauthorization Act of 2012 (FMRA), which called on federal agencies to develop a comprehensive plan to accelerate the integration of civil UAS into the NAS. In 2015, the FAA made progress toward the goals outlined...
The FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018 requires the agency to ensure that technologies used to detect or mitigate potential risks posed by unmanned aircraft do not interfere with safe airport operations. The FAA does not support the use of counter-UAS systems by any ...
The FAA has worked closely with NASA, industry and other stakeholders since 2017 to identify the initial set of capabilities needed to support small drone operations and advance UTM. The FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018 extended the objectives of the program to further enable safe BVLOS drone operat...
The law cited in this interpretation (Section 336) is outdated and have been explicitly replaced by 49 USC 44809 from the 2018 FAA Reauthorization Act. See my article on recreational drone law for the current law. Some of the parts and pieces of Section 336 made their way into the new 49...
Congress told the FAA to set the minimum standards for seat width and pitch, the industry parlance for the spacing between rows, as part of the 2018 FAA Reauthorization Act. The standards are to be based upon what is "necessary for the safety and health of passengers." ...