“"I'm
convincing my friends and neighbors and anyone who will listen to my
evangelical message locally that this is something that can exponentially grow
over time. This is as much of an
opportunity as the Internet when it first started.”
Jack
Kennedy, a seventh-generation Wise County resident who is also the Clerk of the
30th Judicial Court of Virginia, at the first government-approved drone
delivery by an unmanned aerial vehicle
that successfully dropped medical supplies to a health clinic in rural southwest
Virginia on July 17, 2015.
Greetings! Welcome to the Drone Law Blog of Robert E.
Kelly, Esq.
This is a remarkable and
revolutionary time in the development of the aviation industry. It truly is the dawn of a new era of
technology that has the potential to revolutionize air traffic not only across
the United States of America but around the world.
The mission of this blog is to explore
the federal and state regulatory environment concerning small UAS (which are
more commonly known as “drones”) and provide analysis regarding the rules to be
promulgated for the small UAS service.
This blog will address the federal efforts to create new rules for small
UAS and also address state legislation that tackles small UAS regulation. I am particularly interested in the interplay
– if not conflict – between federal and local authorities as to who will have
the final say on new rules regulating drones.
(The Federal Pre-Emption pages of this blog will address these issues.)
I will also focus scrutiny on the
issues of privacy and the safeguarding of the civil rights not only for drone
users but also for those persons who will be affected by the increased
popularity of drone in the near future.
