I'm just happy to see they are at least taking some steps forward in a process that's kind of fell through the cracks for a while. Yea "drones" are getting more popular now, but it's been obvious for a while that they would gain popularity as the tech gets less expensive like everything else. They should have really started on this path a while ago, but better late than never.
I'm kinda in between you two, not having a pilots license I hope to be able to do commercial work, but I also would appreciate enough regulation that we aren't worse off in the future. If they make things too easy idiots will screw it up for the rest of us, but there has to be a happy medium. I'm happy to pay a bit and maybe take an in person class or test to show I'm competent just like other commercial equipment, but how it is now is overkill.
Hopefully they work it out sooner rather than later, so those breaking the rules don't get any further ahead of me scooping up jobs in the area that I'm waiting to do legally.
Thanks for posting Jubalr I appreciate any and all info on what's coming. Sadly I just saw that this season our local parks are now no drone zones after I've had nothing but great reactions to mine so I hope they put something together before we get a blanket ban.