Originally published at: Guest Post: How Part 108 Could Pave the Runway to LA 2028
UAS safety leader explores how Part 108 automation, manufacturing standards and system-level reliability could redefine “pilot in command.”
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Sorry, Part 108 isn’t close to allowing BVLOS to operate where there are manned aircraft-with or without passengers on the UAS.
The FAA can’t even keep the computer code safe in a thirty year old Airbus. What could possibly go wrong with this?
Meanwhile, Amazon in its latest see and avoid VMC flight, manages to hit another pole in the sky.
If the brilliant minds of the FAA regulatory law office persist, imagine their 1300 lb 120 kt tower seeking BVLOS guided UAS attacking the local power substation. NO right of way for UAV BVLOS! Period.
With respect to the author, all it would take is for one of these unmanned transportation devices to crash into a school while it is in session and the tort lawyers will have a field day in court. Then this part 108 will go the same route as rooftop to airport helicopter service went back in the early 1960’s.
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Part 108 effectively positions advanced drones alongside Part 21-certified aircraft. That means future eVTOLs and heavy-lift drones will move from experimental status to fully certified aircraft, built under audited quality systems—a leap critical to public trust and operational scalability.
Part 108 is effectively giving UAS carte blanche to fly anywhere, violate any right of way with impunity. The FAA abrogating See and Avoid and standard rights of way nautical and aeronautical law for many centuries jeopardizes us all and our goods. A seaplane landing area is in my neighborhood. A northbound Amazon 1300 lb drone flying through at 400 ft out of a wooded area through that landing lane would smash a seaplane to pieces, which currently has the ROW for two reasons: landing traffic and west bound over northbound traffic. This is not “effectively positioning…drones” to work in the NAS or even in Class G airspace. The “big sky little me” is not effective, then, now or in the future.
I find it highly unlikely the TSA and Secret Service (who would be in charge of security during the 2028 Olympics)will allow unmanned aircraft flying VFR during the 2028 Olympics in LA. The Secret Service won’t allow manned aircraft to fly VFR during any high security events, or any UAS now.
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