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Proposed FAA Remote ID Rules Offer Framework for UAS Airspace Integration

New FAA rules would require most unmanned aircraft to share their position and identity with other airspace users.

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By Charles Alcock • Managing Editor

January 10, 2020

Stakeholders have until March 2 to comment on proposed rules intended to provide a framework for integrating unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) into the U.S. National Airspace System. On New Year’s Eve, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) published its long-awaited notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) for remote identification of UAS. The proposals have important implications not only for how rapidly proliferating drone flights can be safely accommodated but also how autonomously-operated, passenger-carrying electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft might function in planned urban air mobility applications.

The final rule resulting from NPRM FAA-2019-100 is expected to require remote identification for the majority of UAS, with exceptions to be made for some amateur-built UAS, aircraft operated by the U.S. government, and UAS weighing less than 0.55 pounds. The core requirement is that UAS can provide “certain identification and location information that people on the ground and other airspace users can receive.”

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