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Under the new rules, companies must use a licensed drone operator.

But the battlefield — albeit virtual — is not the only place where drone operators experience tension.

Still, the new ruling does not allow for businesses to fly drones at night, beyond the line of site of human drone operators, or above the heads of pedestrians.

So instead of telling the drone industry and drone operators what they can't do, we're helping them do what they want to do — while ensuring they operate safely.

As a beginner drone operator, you're sure to experience a few crashes.

While there's a law requiring that security drone operators let people know they're being watched, French rights groups are still worried that the proliferation of drones could lead to widespread surveillance.

Unlike military or police applications of drone technology where the operator may be literally thousands of miles away, the FAA proposal requires commercial drone operators to remain in full view of the drone at all times.

The FAA doesn't require drone operators to have insurance, but it's a good idea to have it anyway, according to VHT.

Various groups hoping to commercialize drones are challenging that policy, and a March ruling by a National Transportation Safety Board administrative law judge left the agency's power to fine drone operators in question.

Yet again, real estate and aerial photography can be seen leading the way in FAA exemptions for drone operators.

Claim representatives are FAA - licensed drone operators who can fly a drone and file insurance claims for customers.

NASA's approach relies on drone operators sending flight information to a centralized system — like an automated air - traffic control — that tracks the location of autonomous aircraft, says Parimal Kopardekar, principal investigator for NASA's Unmanned Aircraft Systems Traffic Management project.

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The FAA has targeted drone operators as diverse as teenagers and large corporations, issuing fines from $ 400 into the millions.

Lisa Ellman, a public policy lawyer at the D.C. offices of Hogan Lovells and co-chair of the practice's Unmanned Aircraft Systems Group, says the registry is largely aimed at fostering accountability among and between drone operators.

That is, not only will registered drone operators be better educated drone pilots, but, ideally, they will also become more likely to recognize and report any unsafe or illegal piloting they witness.

Groups like the Academy of Model Aeronautics that represent the interests of recreational drone operators expressed disappointment at the new regulation Tuesday while suggesting the FAA may have overstepped its authority.

«We have a number of educational initiatives with our government and industry partners to teach drone operators how to fly safely, including the drone registry we launched last December,» FAA Administrator Michael Huerta said in a statement.

In his 2011 film project 5,000 Feet is the Best, Fast explores the experiences of a Predator drone operator firing on militants and civilians, based on accounts both on and off the record.

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Irresponsible drone operators also risk a «drone strike» on your home or apartment!

Maybe the client does not have the budget to pay for a professional drone operator, but you have a friend who is working on their drone technique and would love to try it out on a real production.

Make sure that your hired drone operator has liability insurance in the event something goes wrong and they damage that beautiful house you are trying to sell.

In order to better understand how to screen pilots and their supporting units for mental health concerns, Wayne Chappelle, chief of aerospace psychology at the Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine at Wright - Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio, has conducted research on the potential psychological issues faced by drone operators.

Film and television drone operators scored 23 of those exemptions, and real estate 15.

People who failed to comply with the regulations, intended to promote drone safety and help identify dangerous drone operators, risked fines and jail time.

People with flat - bottomed boats and high - water vehicles formed rescue flotillas, plucking stranded people from flooded dwellings — sometimes aided by squads of drone operators steering them to where help is needed.

Stress relief might not be what one associates with drone operation, but there's an important catch: Furadi isn't a military drone operator.

This grueling schedule can take a toll, and Chappelle's 2011 study found that almost a third of active - duty drone operators reported symptoms of burnout.

Furthermore, the stress of working long hours occasionally carries over into drone operators» personal lives.

Unlike pilots who physically fly into an area, release a weapon and sometimes never see the aftermath of their mission, drone operators regularly conduct lengthy surveillance following the strikes, exposing themselves to the often - grisly aftermath.

In video games, players rarely make a human connection with the characters on their screen, but Predator drone operators often monitor their targets for weeks or months before ever firing a weapon, he added.

And despite conducting sometimes - lethal missions in front of a computer screen, Chappelle said drone operators have not shown any indication that they have become numb to the act of killing.

Most drone operators, Chappelle found, describe experiencing combat sensations that are remarkably similar to infantrymen on the front lines.

From other questionnaires, Chappelle found that 17 percent of Predator or Reaper drone operators, and 25 percent of Global Hawk operators, show signs of what the Air Force terms «clinical distress,» which includes depression, anxiety and other symptoms that interfere with job performance or disrupt family life.

«When I flew F - 18s, you saw everything through cameras and TV screens, just like how drone operators see today.

Researchers are unsure how this dynamic might affect drone operators in the long term, but Slim said balancing family life with the stress of his job caused tension in his household.

Also involved is Nevada - based drone operator Steve Watts (Aaron Paul), who is tasked with being the team's «eye in the sky» while the capture mission is enacted.

It takes the form of aerial journeys over pastoral and suburban landscapes intercut with re-enactments of the interview the artist conducted with a former drone operator.

We encourage all drone operators to think about the safety of those around them, and follow the new regulations at all times.»

Where the precise boundary lies between federal authority and state and local authority is not always obvious, but Congress and the Courts will be called upon to define it as drone operators mature and their operations grow more sophisticated and expand in scale.

Commercial drone operators need special commercial drone insurance.

New York City drone operators want to know: where can they legally fly their drones?

We've gotten plenty of peeks at Apple's new corporate campus, Apple Park, courtesy of various drone operators and a few highlights from the company itself.