{"id":757,"date":"2016-02-08T21:02:07","date_gmt":"2016-02-08T21:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/?p=757"},"modified":"2016-02-08T21:02:07","modified_gmt":"2016-02-08T21:02:07","slug":"bill-nelson-wants-limits-on-drones-around-airports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/2016\/02\/08\/bill-nelson-wants-limits-on-drones-around-airports\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Nelson Wants Limits on Drones Around Airports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/1google-drone.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-758\" src=\"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/1google-drone.jpg\" alt=\"1google-drone\" width=\"259\" height=\"131\" \/><\/a>Nowadays, drones are widely used by hobbyists for photography and corporations for surveying purposes. The growing use of drones is adding to safety concerns and U.S. Senator Bill Nelson, D-Fla. called a meeting of the top executives of seven of Florida\u2019s largest airports. The meeting was held at <a href=\"https:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\" target=\"_blank\">Orlando International Airport<\/a> on Friday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Drones are quickly becoming a threat to airliners and need to be federally regulated to ensure that they don&#8217;t get too close to airplanes landing or taking off from airports, <!--more-->agreed Florida&#8217;s aviation leaders that included Phil Brown, executive director of Orlando International Airport; Emilio Gonzalez with Miami International Airport; Joe Lopano with Tampa International Airport; Rick Piccolo with Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport; Parker McClellan from NW Florida Beaches International Airport; Tom Jewsbury from St. Pete-Clearwater International Airport, and Steve Grossman, chief executive officer of the Jacksonville Aviation Authority. Kevin Burke, president of the Airports Council International-North America, was also present at the meeting.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nelson, who serves on the Senate Commerce Committee, which oversees the\u00a0Federal Aviation Administration, called drones near airports \u201can accident that is waiting to happen\u201d and said he asked the FAA for tougher\u00a0rules and to help airports install technologies that would allow them to take control of any drones that could fly nearby.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Federal law already forbids drones from flying within five miles of airports but Emilio Gonzalez, Phil Brown\u00a0and Rick Piccolo\u00a0said pilots had recently reported spotting a drone flying nearby as they were landing or taking off a plane. Burke added it is increasingly becoming a problem\u00a0at airports around the country.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nelson suggested two types of technology to better control drones that pose a threat to commercial airspace. The first is a software to install in future drones that would keep drones from flying into restricted airspace. The second includes an electric fence: the airports would monitor drone radio frequencies and take control of any drones if it gets too close to an airfield. This would allow the airport to navigate the drone away and gather information about drone\u2019s owner.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to Piccolo, &#8220;we really need a federal standard,&#8221; as well as \u201ca federal way to enforce this.&#8221; \u201cThis is a national issue that can only be solved with a system of regulations,\u201d said Steve Grossman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nowadays, drones are widely used by hobbyists for photography and corporations for surveying purposes. The growing use of drones is adding to safety concerns and U.S. Senator Bill Nelson, D-Fla. called a meeting of the top executives of seven of Florida\u2019s largest airports. The meeting was held at Orlando International Airport on Friday. Drones are &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/2016\/02\/08\/bill-nelson-wants-limits-on-drones-around-airports\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bill Nelson Wants Limits on Drones Around Airports&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,7],"tags":[12,49,52],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}