Your entire post is flawed.
The FAA is drafting regs to cover operations, unmanned operations, to comply with the same standards of manned flights while at the same time address the limitations associated with unmanned flights.
Small operators, guys I know, with commercial tickets and owning small aircraft do fly people around for money and make deliveries for money. A commercial ticket allows that. You want to fly regular chartered flights, need to comply with that portion of the regs. Here’s a thought—don’t let anyone sue anyone if they crash as a pilot or passenger.
If you followed the entire thread you would find the context of my post. Meaning, the FAA regulates air operations in the NAS, and that includes unmanned as well as manned flight. You, apparently, want unregulated flights, unregulated charters, unregulated standards, let Joe Schmuck and his barely flyable aircraft to fly the friendly skies.
All operations in the NAS come under FAA review and certifications, and the argument was only Amazon and Google would be players in unmanned deliveries and that simply isn’t so. . .shattering the argument that A/G would dictate to the FAA regs and such that would prohibit/inhibit UAV ops by smaller entities.
From whence does the FAA derive that regulatory authority?
If you are flying a drone across a lake, well under 500’, the FAA shuts you down...
Deep pockets for election campaigns and the cost of red tape, and you are just peachy to fly books and knick-knacks across Country.
And you think this is just peachy?
As for “regulation”, I want a civilian agency similar to the IEEE instead of an industry choking bureaucracy... You know, that whole “freedom” and “liberty” thing.