{"id":83506,"date":"2018-10-10T17:03:36","date_gmt":"2018-10-11T00:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/new-faa-rules-for-drones-go-into-effect"},"modified":"2018-10-10T17:03:36","modified_gmt":"2018-10-11T00:03:36","slug":"new-faa-rules-for-drones-go-into-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/new-faa-rules-for-drones-go-into-effect","title":{"rendered":"New FAA Rules for Drones Go Into Effect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-faa-rules-for-drones-go-into-effect.jpeg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 2018 FAA Reauthorization Act maintains a distinction between recreational and commercial activities, but the FAA is no longer constrained by law not to impose rules on the former: Section 336, which had previously carved out an exception for model aircraft, has been entirely repealed. In its place is a new Section 349, which covers what the FAA expects of recreational flyers.<\/p>\n<p>The title of Section 349 betrays a very different attitude compared with the earlier Section 336. It reads: \u201cException for Limited Recreational Operations of Unmanned Aircraft.\u201d No more calling them model aircraft: Small models\u2014including things sold as toys, even paper airplanes\u2014are referred to as \u201cUnmanned Aircraft.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That seems a little ridiculous to me. In my view, the FAA is committing what philosophers sometimes call <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Continuum_fallacy#cite_note-1\">the fallacy of the beard<\/a>: A paper airplane is clearly not something the FAA should worry about, whereas a large octocopter with whirring blades carrying a heavy camera is. But where do you draw the line? The FAA refuses to set a threshold under which it bows out, insisting that everything not carrying people and capable of flight is an \u201cunmanned aircraft\u201d requiring the agency\u2019s oversight and regulation.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/automaton\/robotics\/drones\/new-faa-rules-for-drones-go-into-effect\">https:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/automaton\/robotics\/drones\/new-faa-...nto-effect<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2018 FAA Reauthorization Act maintains a distinction between recreational and commercial activities, but the FAA is no longer constrained by law not to impose rules on the former: Section 336, which had previously carved out an exception for model aircraft, has been entirely repealed. In its place is a new Section 349, which covers [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,1496,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-law","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}