Nope. They made that a federal offense in there as well. With, guess what, exceptions for - que the music - the Federal Government...
I have just looked over the Senate version and here is the passage - Under Title VI: Aviation Research
(Sec. 607) Authorizes the FAA Administrator to: (1) arrange with the NAS to assess unmanned aircraft systems; and (2) establish three two-year cost-shared pilot projects in sparsely populated, low-density Class G air traffic airspace new test sites to conduct developmental work and service testing to improve unmanned aircraft for safe integration into the National Airspace System. Authorizes appropriations for FY2010-FY2011.
Directs the FAA Administrator to make available on the FAA’s website a five-year “roadmap” for introduction of unmanned aircraft systems into the National Airspace System.
You would not believe the scope of this thing - the sole purpose of this piece of legislation is to grow the Government and to do it fast, while providing special exemptions for special people who promised to vote for it if they “got theirs”.
What a mess.
It is a document that can fry your brain and enrage you simultaneously folks.
Thank you Heavenly Father for our victories, and please strengthen us for the coming battles.
Tatt
I’m not conspiratorial, but this is sounding similar to War of the Worlds only they are Drones and they are our govt. who are the enemy.
Big city police departments are getting grants for the purchase of drones through Homeland Security. To “fly” a drone, an officer needs to get a Helicopter Pilot’s ground license.