Drone licensing depends on intent: commercial use (any profit or benefit) requires a Part 107 remote pilot certification, while recreational flying (for fun) does not, though recreational pilots must ...

DAVID MARIA, GOOD EVENING. UNTIL ABOUT EIGHT YEARS AGO, THERE WERE BASICALLY NO RULES. DRONE TECHNOLOGY TOOK OFF A LOT FASTER THAN GOVERNMENT REGULATIONS COULD KEEP UP. AND THEN IN 2016, THEY LAID ...

All drones weighing over roughly half a pound (0.55 pounds to be exact) must be registered with the FAA, whether flown for commercial or recreational purposes. According to agency guidelines, drones ...

The CITRIS Initiative for Drone Education and Research (CIDER) welcomed its 2024 Drone Pilot Training Program cohort in an orientation session on January 8. The 16-week extracurricular training ...

As technologies emerge, college courses are springing up to teach them – something that Alayna Nosalik, a student at Aurora University, knows after becoming the first AU student to earn an FAA Drone ...

(This story was updated because an earlier version included an inaccuracy.) A spate of reported drone sightings that began in New Jersey in mid-November and spread across the Northeast has sparked ...