Amazon Prime Air

[Meta4]

You can legally do drone work in the U.S.A. as well...You just need to be licensed for it if you do it for commercial purposes.

Who can?
Anyone other than the few Hollywood companies and that oilfield company in in Alaska that have exemptions under Section 333?

 

[Khudson7]

You can legally do drone work in the U.S.A. as well...You just need to be licensed for it if you do it for commercial purposes.

REALLY??? Good luck with that!

 

[jdoejdoe76]

You can legally do drone work in the U.S.A. as well...You just need to be licensed for it if you do it for commercial purposes.

Who can?
Anyone other than the few Hollywood companies and that oilfield company in in Alaska that have exemptions under Section 333?

Thank you for providing examples of my point. Amazon is surely as large...That is the subject of the thread title I believe.

 

[jdoejdoe76]

You can legally do drone work in the U.S.A. as well...You just need to be licensed for it if you do it for commercial purposes.

REALLY??? Good luck with that!

See above for your education.

 

[Meta4]

You can legally do drone work in the U.S.A. as well...You just need to be licensed for it if you do it for commercial purposes.

You've said you can work in the USA - just need to be licensed.
But in the whole of the USA with a population of 300 million there only seven exemptions have been granted so YOU cannot work legally unless you work for one of those groups. It's not a matter of you just need to be licensed.

 

[jdoejdoe76]

You can legally do drone work in the U.S.A. as well...You just need to be licensed for it if you do it for commercial purposes.

You've said you can work in the USA - just need to be licensed.
But in the whole of the USA with a population of 300 million there only seven exemptions have been granted so YOU cannot work legally unless you work for one of those groups. It's not a matter of you just need to be licensed.

Sure it is, you just admitted there are licensed operators in the U.S.A...Just relax man, no need to spiral out into the weeds here. We're talking about Amazon Prime Air...a big company...If they get licensed like the others you've mentioned (proving my point), they'll have lots of individuals flying quads around for commercial purposes.

Pretty simple, unless you're a dog with a bone.

 

[ianwood]

7 companies in 4 years is not exactly indicative of the FAA being ahead of the curve. The criticism over their lack of progress is pretty widespread and fully warranted. And this isn't the only area where the FAA is behind the curve.

Amazon will likely not get an approval to experiment anytime soon. Meanwhile, the rest of the modern world moves forward. The FAA needs to be entirely restructured. It's not 1960 anymore.

 

[Meta4]

no need to spiral out into the weeds here.

Seems there was to get what you meant which was very different from what you said.

Sure it is, you just admitted there are licensed operators in the U.S.A...Just relax man, no need to spiral out into the weeds here. We're talking about Amazon Prime Air...a big company...If they get licensed like the others you've mentioned (proving my point), they'll have lots of individuals flying quads around for commercial purposes.

Pretty simple, unless you're a dog with a bone.

So when you said ...

You can legally do drone work in the U.S.A. as well...You just need to be licensed for it if you do it for commercial purposes.

You meant that perhaps Amazon might be able to get a license someday.
That's very different from

You can legally do drone work in the U.S.A. as well...You just need to be licensed for it if you do it for commercial purposes.

Virtually no-one can do drone work legally in the U.S.A under the current legislation.
And that is pretty much the opposite you your original comment.

 

[jdoejdoe76]

"Virtually no one" doesn't mean no one at all...I said it was possible, you provided examples that it is possible...What's the problem here? You're arguing about nothing...I'll leave you to it.

 

[Meta4]

Virtually no-one is so close enough to absolutely no-one that the difference is insignificant.
You can't legally do drone work in the U.S.A currently. To try to argue that you can is ridiculous.
What a waste of a whole page of the forum.

 

[derrickduff]

Virtually no-one is so close enough to absolutely no-one that the difference is insignificant.
You can't legally do drone work in the U.S.A currently. To try to argue that you can is ridiculous.
What a waste of a whole page of the forum.

jdoejdoe76 is more concerned with proving his point with circular arguments than actually contributing to the discussion.

It's just sad a huge commercial boon is being sidelined by cowardice and yesterdays thinking. There is no reason this should fail other than unnecessary regulation. Better battery tech is around the corner along with better flight systems and other hardware components.

There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share.

Steve Ballmer, USA Today, April 30, 2007.