Category: UAS

Antonelli Law’s Drone/UAS Practice Group is again exhibiting at AUVSI’s annual conference, Unmanned Systems 2015 in Atlanta, Georgia May 5-7, 2015. Our booth is 1434, just steps from the central Innovation Hub. Stop by our booth to speak directly with the attorneys involved in our Section 333 work, including the recent FAA

Antonelli Law Drone/UAS Practice Group is proud to announce its client Nixon Engineering Solutions has been granted approval for commercial UAV flights pursuant to Section 333 of the 2012 FAA Authorization and Modernization Act in the mining and oil & gas industries. A copy of the FAA Grant of Exemption under Section

Two more Section 333 petitions for exemption were filed by the Antonelli Law Drone/UAS Practice Group on March 30, 2015, bringing the total filed to six, with others pending: Helios Imaging Inc.  Closed-set motion picture and television filming and  construction Volo Pervidi LLC Geospatial analysis If your company would like assistance filing

We have reviewed all 190+ pages of the FAA’s proposed rules for commercial use of drones (“small UAS”). Our review confirms the initial impression we posted on Monday. Overall, the proposed rules are much more flexible and conducive to commercial operations of small UAS (those weighing 55 pounds or less) than most

This Sunday, the FAA and DOT finally released their proposed rules for commercial use of drones weighing 55 pounds or less in our national airspace. The good news? No pilot’s license or flight school will be required to operate a drone commercially. The bad news? The formal rulemaking process has just begun