{"id":16879,"date":"2020-11-17T14:04:55","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T14:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saj.pachecostudios.com?p=16879"},"modified":"2020-11-17T14:04:58","modified_gmt":"2020-11-17T14:04:58","slug":"during-drone-safety-awareness-week-naaa-urges-uas-operators-to-be-alert-to-low-flying-agricultural-aircraft-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/national-news\/during-drone-safety-awareness-week-naaa-urges-uas-operators-to-be-alert-to-low-flying-agricultural-aircraft-2\/%20","title":{"rendered":"During Drone Safety Awareness Week, NAAA Urges UAS Operators to be Alert to Low-Flying Agricultural Aircraft"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As part of the FAA\u2019s National Drone Safety Awareness Week\nNov. 16-22, the National Agricultural Aviation Association (NAAA) is reminding\nUnmanned Aircraft System (UAS) operators to be aware of low-altitude\nagricultural aircraft operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAgricultural aviators fly as low as 10 feet off the ground,\nat speeds up to 140 mph when making an application, meaning they share this\nlow-altitude airspace with UAS,\u201d said NAAA CEO Andrew Moore. \u201cAerial\napplications are labor intensive. Ag pilots are looking for ground-affixed\nobstacles and trying to ensure precise, targeted applications, and studies have\nshown it is extremely difficult, if not impossible, for manned aircraft pilots\nto see small UAS. We encourage both professional and hobbyist UAS operators to\nbe mindful of this, especially when operating in rural areas.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To ensure the safety of low-altitude manned aircraft, NAAA\nrecommends UAS operators:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Always give the right-of-way to a manned aircraft. It\u2019s the law.<\/li><li>Equip drones with tracking technology, such as ADS-B, so other similarly equipped aircraft can ascertain their positions.<\/li><li>Get certified and well-trained in operating a UAS.<\/li><li>Contact local agricultural aviation operations before flying by consulting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.AgAviation.org\/findapplicator\">AgAviation.org\/findapplicator<\/a>.<\/li><li>Equip UASs with visible strobe lights.<\/li><li>Land your UAS immediately when a low-altitude manned aircraft is nearby.<\/li><li>Carry UAS liability insurance.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>In a test conducted by the Colorado Agricultural Aviation\nAssociation and other stakeholders, including manned and unmanned aircraft\norganizations, no pilot operating a manned aircraft could continuously visually\ntrack a 28-inch-wide drone when flying at regular speeds. While they might be\nspotted for a second, UASs are not constantly visible to pilots, meaning it\u2019s\nup to the drone operator to avoid a collision. When birds hit an ag aircraft,\nthey can break through an aircraft\u2019s windshield causing deadly accidents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Furthermore, a study conducted by the Alliance for System\nSafety of UAS through Research Excellence (ASSURE) showed UAS collisions with\naircraft cause more damage than would a bird strike of similar size, due\npartially to UASs\u2019 dense motors and batteries, as opposed to a bird made mostly\nof water, feathers, hollow bones and sinew.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While a majority of aerial applications take place in the summer months, aerial applicators continue to work throughout the year applying cover crops, fighting fires and making public health applications that control health-threatening pests such as mosquitos that spread the West Nile, Zika and EEE viruses. Aerial applicators treat 127 million acres of cropland annually, which means many flights over many different areas during the busy season. Be aware of agricultural and other low-flying manned aircraft this week and throughout the year. Learn more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.AgAviation.org\/uavsafetycampaign\">AgAviation.org\/uavsafetycampaign<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.Thinkbeforeyoulaunch.org\">Thinkbeforeyoulaunch.org<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.Knowbeforeyoufly.org\">Knowbeforeyoufly.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of the FAA\u2019s National Drone Safety Awareness Week Nov. 16-22, the National Agricultural Aviation Association (NAAA) is reminding Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) operators to be aware of low-altitude agricultural aircraft operations. \u201cAgricultural aviators fly as low as 10 feet off the ground, at speeds up to 140 mph when making an application, meaning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[115],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16879"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16880,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16879\/revisions\/16880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}