Matt Waite talking more in-depth about working with the FAA
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09/30/2019
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Matt Waite discussing working with the FAA.
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- [00:00:01.440]So I asked them, "What do we gotta do?"
- [00:00:02.670]And he says, "Well, you have to do some paperwork,
- [00:00:04.157]"a little bit of paperwork, and then
- [00:00:05.767]"we're gonna kick it around here for a while,
- [00:00:07.537]"and we'll almost certainly permit it
- [00:00:09.907]"if you're being safe."
- [00:00:11.897]"Okay, we can do that."
- [00:00:12.850]Well, a little bit of paperwork to the FAA
- [00:00:14.270]takes about a year to complete.
- [00:00:16.330]We actually had to get a letter
- [00:00:17.570]from the Nebraska Attorney General
- [00:00:19.250]that said yes indeed, the University of Nebraska
- [00:00:21.870]is a public entity and a government institution,
- [00:00:26.320]which cracked me up.
- [00:00:28.970]We finally get it all done, in 2014,
- [00:00:32.240]and we send it to them, and they immediately
- [00:00:34.980]rejected it, and the reason that
- [00:00:37.570]they rejected it was, they said,
- [00:00:39.057]"Well, we went and reviewed all of
- [00:00:43.417]"our regulations, and we've decided
- [00:00:45.717]"that education is not a government
- [00:00:48.657]"function under FAA regulations.
- [00:00:52.637]"So, because we do not consider you
- [00:00:55.760]a government user any more,"
- [00:00:57.420]which, reminder, this was the whole reason
- [00:00:59.990]I got in trouble in the first place, was I was
- [00:01:02.240]a government user operating without permission.
- [00:01:04.290]Well now I'm not a government user any more,
- [00:01:07.240]so they said now I have to be a commercial user,
- [00:01:09.650]'cause it's the only other bucket that we fit under.
- [00:01:12.600]I said, "Okay, well what do I have to do?"
- [00:01:15.100]And they said, "Well, good news, Congress
- [00:01:18.827]"passed a law in 2012 that now creates a new path
- [00:01:21.817]"for commercial users, so the good news is
- [00:01:24.627]"that you can get permission.
- [00:01:25.707]"The bad news is, you need to be a licensed
- [00:01:28.687]"pilot in order to fly a drone."
- [00:01:32.940]And I said, "Okay, great, you guys
- [00:01:34.327]"are coming up with a drone license then, yes?"
- [00:01:36.490]And they said, "No, you have to go learn
- [00:01:39.907]"how to fly an airplane in order to fly
- [00:01:42.767]"a three-pound hunk of plastic on the ground."
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