Sean Broderick's aviation career started in 1991, working for Airbus in Toulouse. His industry experience includes four years with an aviation consultancy, where he worked on the successful launch of a U.S. Part 121 carrier; 12 years with an airport association as a magazine editor and communications executive; and more than 15 years of full- and part-time work as a journalist, writing about air transport and business aviation. &nbsp;
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The Helicopter Association International (HAI) continues to express concern that the push by localities to regulate small unmanned aerial vehicles could have a knock-on effect for its members.&nbsp;


“Right now there are in excess of 1,000 local ordinances, rules and regulations regarding drone operations, and drones are a category of aircraft,” HAI president Matthew Zuccaro said during a legislative issues panel at last week’s National Air Transportation Association Aviation Business Conference. Localities “now feel empowered that they are controlling drone operations. It’s not a far cry for them to say, ‘We already control a category of aircraft, and nobody seems to stop us. Why don’t we go after the helicopters?’”


Zuccaro <a href="http://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/business-aviation/2017-05-04/faa-amenable-discussing-jurisdictional-issues-over-drones">expressed similar concerns</a> at a recent drone advisory committee meeting. Because helicopters and drones have similar mission profiles, HAI has embraced the drone’s emergence as a <a href="http://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/business-aviation/2015-03-10/helicopter-operators-see-drones-business-opportunity">business opportunity</a> for its members. But those similarities also have Zuccaro nervous that localities will envision a regulatory parallel between the two, and he’s seeing little to alleviate his concerns. “There’s nobody challenging them,” he said. “We are scared to death that this is possible.”

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