the DRONE that shot down the feds
- Thread starter kloner
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Mojave
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I like the Judges quote: "risible argument"; you don't see that word everyday.
From Google.com -
ris·i·ble
ˈrizəbəl/Submit
adjective
adjective: risible
1. such as to provoke laughter.
synonyms: laughable, ridiculous, absurd, comical, comic, amusing, funny, hilarious, humorous, droll, farcical, silly, ludicrous, hysterical; More rare (of a person) having the faculty or power of laughing; inclined to laugh
From the article:
"Two weeks ago, Patrick Geraghty, an administrative law judge for the National Transportation Safety Board, emphatically agreed. "There was no enforceable FAA rule" concerning Mr. Pirker's aircraft, he wrote, and the government's insistence amounted to a "risible argument" that the FAA has authority over anything that moves through the air, including even "a paper aircraft, or a toy balsa wood glider." The judge threw out the fine and, with it, the federal ban on commercial drones."
The judge threw out the case against Trappy, that doesn't automatically negate the FAA's position on the subject. They still think they're right and they've filed an appeal of the judges decision so it isn't over yet.
One side effect of this though, you can bet the FAA timeline for official rules and issuance of an NPRM to kickoff the process of making them legal has been fast tracked internally. If anything this will get them off their collective butt and start the process moving, let's just hope it didn't provoke them into making the requirements for both hobby and commercial use a lot more stringent than they would have been otherwise.
Ken
One side effect of this though, you can bet the FAA timeline for official rules and issuance of an NPRM to kickoff the process of making them legal has been fast tracked internally. If anything this will get them off their collective butt and start the process moving, let's just hope it didn't provoke them into making the requirements for both hobby and commercial use a lot more stringent than they would have been otherwise.
Ken