Aircraft
Airline Pilots Assured of Safe Introduction of UAS
The Boeing Insitu ScanEagle unmanned aircraft has an mtow of 44 pounds and service ceiling of 19,500 feet. (Photo: Boeing)
The Boeing Insitu ScanEagle unmanned aircraft has an mtow of 44 pounds and service ceiling of 19,500 feet. (Photo: Boeing)

Industry and government executives involved in the development and regulation of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) offered airline pilots assurances that air vehicles piloted from the ground will be introduced safely and incrementally to the U.S. national airspace system (NAS). “We’re doing this in an organized and structured fashion,” said Richard Prosek, manager of flight technologies and procedures in the FAA’s UAS Integration Office.