Congress Passes Bill That Opens U.S. Skies To Unmanned Drones
February 7th, 2012Via: AP:
A bill to speed the nation’s switch from radar to an air traffic control system based on GPS technology, and to open U.S. skies to unmanned drone flights within four years, received final congressional approval Monday.
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The FAA is also required under the bill to provide military, commercial and privately-owned drones with expanded access to U.S. airspace currently reserved for manned aircraft by Sept. 30, 2015. That means permitting unmanned drones controlled by remote operators on the ground to fly in the same airspace as airliners, cargo planes, business jets and private aircraft.
Currently, the FAA restricts drone use primarily to segregated blocks of military airspace, border patrols and about 300 public agencies and their private partners. Those public agencies are mainly restricted to flying small unmanned aircraft at low altitudes away from airports and urban centers.
Within nine months of the bill’s passage, the FAA is required to submit a plan on how to safely provide drones with expanded access.
Wow that is great! Does this mean that the military won’t be needing to spray us with chemtrails so that their satellite systems can spy on us better?
Anymore, I’m starting to feel like I am living in the Twilight Zone, or am a character in the movie Brazil.
It better not say it cannot get worse, because it always can.
And to think all of these security and military drones are supposedly necessary because manned (with pilots who failed their flying classes in Bojinka training in FL) flights crashed into the WTC and the Pentagon. Because what could possibly go wrong with unmanned flights (Global Hawk)?