As you may recall, the FAA reauthorizing legislation passed last year included new responsibility to regulate unpiloted aerial vehicles, UAVs, commonly called drones. As I discussed in this space in May 2012, the new law requires the FAA "to develop a regulatory framework for larger craft to mix and mingle in the national airspace with the kinds of machines you and I fly. By September 30, 2015, that new set of regulations must be in place, according to Congress, and must allow private operation of UAVs."
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