Why Drones Are Useful To Tourism Industry

The new ideas or solutions to solve the problem

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Solutions

1. Create Policy

As of late last year, 36 states had introduced legislation to protect individuals from drone related privacy invasion issues. But so far only 17 states have laws restricting drone usage.

2. The FAA

The FAA is leading a public outreach campaign to promote safe and responsible use of unmanned aircraft systems. We are offering a digital toolkit with outreach materials to federal, state, and other partners to educate unmanned aircraft operators that flying in certain areas is prohibited. This toolkit includes No Drone Zone signage for any medium, including print and web.

3. The rules for flying drones in the UK?

The rules governing use of drones are still evolving, as the implications of these new use cases become clear. For example, the House of Lords EU Committee called for the compulsory registration of all commercial and civilian drones, amid growing concern over the use of drones by private individuals with little knowledge of aviation rules. you must avoid flying it within 150 meters of a congested area and 50 meters of a person, vessel, vehicle or structure not under the control of the pilot.

4. The Rules About Operating a Drone in Australia

As things stand today, private operators don’t need approval from CASA before taking flight with their drones, but there are some rules that need to be respected. The CASA defines the commercial use of a drone as anything you’re doing for hire or reward. For example, if you’re a production company strapping a camera to a drone for the purposes of gathering footage, or if you’re flying something into the air to test it via a drone, that’s commercial use.

Before you can even get a drone remote in your hands for commercial purposes, CASA requires that pilots undergo a certification process in order to get an Operator’s Certificate. That demonstrates that you can not only fly a drone safely, but also that you’re aware of rules and regulations relating to drone flights in Australia. The regulations don’t stop there, either: for any drone flights, commercial operators need explicit approval from CASA before you can even leave the ground with your flying machine.

That approval involves filing several important documents with the regulator, including a flight plan and copies of your certifications. If a commercial entity is caught operating a drone without any of these things, the flight feds will can come down on you. Hard.

For starters, they can revoke a commercial entity’s Operator’s Certificate, which is kind of like having your driver’s license suspended as a taxi driver. It’s all bad. Drone operators can re-apply for their Operator’s Certificate, but that request goes through the CASA which has the power to refuse or place conditions on any new permit.

The CASA can also consider the use of infringement notices or criminal charges for commercial operators if offences are serious enough.

In new rules now delayed until 2016: Australia’s civil aviation safety body announced plans to slightly loosen around commercial drone operation, making it easier for you to make a bit of money on the side from your drone photography or drone video business.

Lightweight drones — those under 2 kilograms, which would include the popular combination of DJI Phantom 3 plus a GoPro or other compact video camera setup — will be allowed to be operated by commercial drone pilots or companies undertaking commercial work, without having to apply and be granted a commercial drone operation license.

For companies and operators to be exempt from those licensing requirements, though, the drones they operate will have to follow the same rules as recreational users:

• Stay at least 30 meters away from people with your drone.

• Keep your drone under 120 meters. Commercial drone operators can go higher with special approvals.

• You may not operate your drone above a large gathering of people (e.g.: fireworks, at sporting events, over crowds at the beach or groups of protesters).

• You must keep your drone within sight while you’re operating it.

• You may not operate your drone within 5.5km of an airport and a place where planes take off or land from.

Drone operators’ licenses are still in high demand at CASA; the authority has a backlog of over applications for commercial pilots.

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What are the reasons or factors that can stimulate or implementation of drones

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The reasons or factors that can stimulate or implementation of drones

1. Air safety

A growing number of drones have been constant flown dangerously close to commercial aircraft, which violating federal rules about their operation. Recently, a hobby drone flying above a wildfire in California forced officials there to ground fire-fighting aircraft due to safety concerns. “Drones, these devices are becoming universal” said formal Airline Captain Chesley Sully Sullenberger. Imagine what if a device can do that might weigh 25 or possibly up to 55 pound to bring down an airplane.

2. Flying Weapons

A video published last month of a handgun being fired from a flying drone quickly went viral. It also brought both federal and state scrutiny to the issue of drones being turned into potential weapons. The video was released by 18-year-old Austin Haughwout of Clinton, Connecticut. He wasn't charged with any criminal offenses because police said he hadn't violated any state laws. But the FAA is looking into whether he violated regulations that ban the careless or reckless operation of a model aircraft.

Lawmakers say the case has raised a new series of concerns.

"Drones present a new, unique set of policy questions," Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., said in an interview with the Hartford Courant. "What happened in Clinton is really scary. We've got to make sure that our federal laws are pretty clear on some of these new, thorny questions. ... None of this is science fiction any longer."

3. Crowded Skies

At the present time, especially the big delivery and service companies, already has big plans for turning drone technology into new sources of revenues such as delivery services throughout drones. For instance, Amazon has announced its “Prime Air,” a delivery system it says will finally allow the company to “to safely get packages into customers’ hands in 30 minutes or less” using small drones.

In addition, Google (GOOG) also has a drone delivery service called Wing in the works. Experts say the major issue for these companies is the current lag time between drone technologies and official policies about drone usage.

Lisa Ellman, co-chair of the Unmanned Aircraft Systems Group at the Hogan Lovells law firm, has worked with the Obama administration on drone regulatory issues. In an interview with Tech.Co, Ellman said she expects some "major advancement" on drone policy in the near future, including rules that will prohibit drone flights in cities and crowded areas.

But beyond those bans, "we'll see growth in the drone services industry and drone technologies," she added. "The best part though, is that regardless of where it's going, it won't stop growing."

4. The Privacy Interruption

One disadvantage of drones is that they can be considered an invasion of privacy in the sense that they are constantly surveilling. Drones can carry high-power zoom lenses, night vision, and see-through imaging. Many people see drones flying over our homes as spying on us while we conduct our everyday lives. Rand Paul senator from Kentucky said, “When I have friends over for a barbecue, the government drone is not on the invitation list. I do not want a drone monitoring where I go, what I do and for how long I do whatever it is that I’m doing. I do not want a nanny state watching over my every move (Levs, 2013).” In June, at a Senate Judiciary Committee FBI oversight hearing, former FBI Director Robert S. Mueller, III admitted that the FBI had been using drones in law enforcement operations and domestic surveillance since 2006. Mueller addressed privacy concerns by saying that the agency was in the initial stages of writing privacy policy to ensure that the drones are used in a manner that does not violate constitutional privacy rights. Some find it odd that they are only in the “initial stages” some seven years after the FBI began using drones for domestic surveillance (Banner, 2013). Figuring out this privacy issue will certainly be a hot topic in the near future.

The most debates about the use of drones, it seems to pale against the concerns about the privacy. By the same token, the debate is structured around legal terms, using such constructs as “reasonable expectation of privacy,” “private property” and “pubic land.” For example; the way the law reads now is that private property only exists up to the “Nation Air Space of 500 feet in most cases.” Unless changes are made the law, therefore, drones would be free to fly and take pictures and videos of people on the ground within this public air space.

5. Criminal Use

Unfortunately, drones have been discovered by a criminal element for more despicable activities. News stories along the US and Mexican border have indicated that drug cartels have recently used drones to transfer illegal drugs across the border, into the US.

Still, there have also been incidents reported in Russia, Australia and the US where drones have been used to try and get items (illegal drugs and other contraband) into prisons. These incidents have left law enforcement with concerns about the criminal use of drones and what other uses criminal enterprise may develop for this new technology.

6. Collateral damage

One last disadvantage of drones is that they leave behind collateral damage. As stated earlier drones have the capability to be used very precisely but that is not always the case. Many civilian casualties have been taken by drones including children. The military reports that civilian casualties are rare but people are saying otherwise. The Amnesty report supports media accounts from October last year that a 68-year-old woman, Mamana Bibi, was killed by a missile fired from a drone while she was picking okra outside her home in North Waziristan with her grandchildren nearby. A second strike minutes later injured family members tending her (Boone, 2013). Brandon Bryant a former US Drone pilot spoke about his experience on NPR. He fired missiles into Afghanistan from a Las Vegas control room. Now, homeless and suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. Bryant’s second shot with the drone is one he will never forget. On a routine mission, he was ordered to fire a missile at a house with three suspected militants inside. Moments before the missile hit, Bryant says he saw something run around the corner of the building. “It looked like a small person,” he says

7. Prices

It’s not just only a toy, drones are considered as a useful of the present innovation for many sectors, especially to the tourism sector. In the past, drones were used for making movies and associated press, therefore, at the time the price was greatly expensive for a common user.