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Judge rules commercial drones are legal, undoing six-year ban

07
Mar
2014

An administrative judge on the National Transportation Safety Board has ruled that the commercial use of small drones is in fact legal, despite six years of Federal Aviation Administration statements to the contrary. Today Judge Patrick Geraghty dismissed a $10,000 fine levied by the FAA against Raphael Pirker, a Swiss drone operator who used a camera drone to film on the University of Virginia campus. At the time of respondents model aircraft operation… there was no enforceable FAA rule or FAR Regulation application to model aircraft or for classifying model aircraft as an UAS, the judge writes.

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