Cloud Computing: The swarm of drones to come

September 11, 2015 Off By David

Grazed from AOPA.org. Author: Editorial Staff.

Chris Anderson made a strong case that unmanned aircraft are about to change the world in much the same way the Internet did, and that the change is inevitable. The CEO of 3D Robotics delivered the opening keynote at an event billed as the largest drone convention held in the world to date, the International Drone Conference and Exposition in Las Vegas.

Most of the 3,000 registered attendees packed into the massive hall for Anderson’s Sept. 9 talk, with more arriving for the three-day event as he spoke. The crowd included more than a smattering of certificate-holding pilots who are straddling the manned and unmanned aviation worlds. Seminars and classes covered details of the construction and operation of drones, the legalities of commercial operation, and safety…

One presenter’s company, founded by pilots experienced in Part 121 and 91 operations, has applied the lessons learned in a century of manned aviation to develop similar procedures and protocols for operating camera-toting drones…

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