CSPAN Hearing On Drone Threats July 7, 2024
chairman peters: in recent years, the market for commercial use has rapidly expanded due to the affordability and utility of drones that are readily accessible to government, to industry, and to recreational users. the faa estimates that by 2020, about 2.3 million uas's, including 1.5 million recreational drones and model aircrafts and about 800,000 commercial uas's, will be registered to fly in the u. s. between 2016 and 2019, airline pilots reported on average more than 100 drone sightings per month to the faa. the increase in the number of uas's operating in our airspace creates h...