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Individuals and large multi‑national corporations all over the world are devising increasingly sophisticated recreational and commercial uses for drones, bringing with them new and different airspace and infrastructure needs. With that many issues will arise in the near and medium term to safely and efficiently accommodate this very different type of airspace user.
Drones are already used extensively across a range of commerical and parapublic activities, from search and rescue, fire management and emergency response, to aerial photography, aerial agriculture including spraying, plant analysis and vegetation crop mapping, to environmental research.
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Bill
says:The risks of operating drones in urban areas en masse presents many challenges that need to be solved. How will noise pollution be managed? What happens if one falls out of the sky and injures or kills someone, who is to blame? Can our cities handle the proposed amount of air traffic? And most importantly, will people embrace drones as a public transport or emergency response means? I think we are a long way from allowing airliners that carry people to fly without pilots in the front seats, let alone a 2-seat drone that takes you from one side of a city to the other.