U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao formally announced new appointments to the Federal Aviation Administrations (FAA) Drone Advisory Committee (DAC).
The DAC is a broad-based, long-term federal advisory committee that provides the FAA advice on key unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) integration issues by helping to identify challenges and prioritize improvements. The committee helps to create broad support for an overall integration strategy and vision.
Innovation is one of Secretary Chaos top priorities for the Department of Transportation. Michael and the DAC will help guide the FAA to build flexible, responsive regulatory processes that can keep up with the industry’s creativity while ensuring the highest level of safety, said FAA Acting Administrator Daniel K. Elwell.
Members of the DAC are executives who represent a variety of UAS interests, including industry, research, academia, retail, technology and state and local government.
The DAC is chartered to have up to 35 members and this announcement will fill 12 vacancies. The new members in addition to Michael Chasen are listed below:
- Thomas Karol, General Counsel, National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies
- David Silver, Vice President for Civil Aviation, Aerospace Industries Association
- Joseph DePete, President, Air Line Pilots Association
- Bob Brock, Director of Aviation and Unmanned Aircraft Systems, Kansas Department of Transportation
- Mark Colborn, Senior Corporal, Dallas Police Department
- Michael Leo, Captain, New York City Fire Department
- Steve Ucci, Senior Deputy Majority Leader, Rhode Island State Assembly
- Mariah Scott, President, Skyward
- Lorne Cass, Vice President of Regulatory Affairs, American Airlines
- Michael Sinnett, Vice President, Product Development and Strategy, Boeing Commercial Airplanes
- Chris Anderson, Chief Executive officer, 3DR
- Peter Cleveland, Vice President of Law and Policy group, Intel Corporation
Source: Press Release
Can’t believe it is the same old group! Where are the drone businesses?
I am not suprised, as always the little guy is left out of the mix. Nobody but Brenden Shulman from DJI, who is a lawyer and possibly a lobbyist as well, but out of 35 members we little guys have exactly one person who may or may not be representing our best interests. It is all corporations, Government, Telecommunications, and Pilot Associations, NONE of which even want to see you flying a Mavic let alone Making Money doing it….
Look at the new Rules for Hobbyists, You must take a test to fly your drone, but we have not written it, nor set up a way to administer or track it, no way to prove you have done so, and yet you face enforcement action for not doing so, when of course you can’t.
Typical, and yet so sad. Of course now that our government has demonize DJI products yet again, and started getting all pissy about data security, (even though that had been addressed and solved over a year ago), I suspect DJI will be on the list of technology banned during the trade war negations. Accuracy in the news is a rarer and rarer thing these days.
DJI address it’s vunerabilities with several ways to combat data theft, and yet here we go again with the same old thing. It is like Data Security ANYWHERE. If you leave your door open you invite trouble. Be it your company network or your company drone. Security is the watchword, but it makes good copy to demonize China since we are in a trade war with them. Did not have a problem being hacked six ways from Sunday during the previous administration did we.
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