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Commercial UAS/Drone usage is illegal, really?

I have added up the UAS/Drone professionals I have direct contact with is 25 and I am connected with over a thousand on Twitter. How is this? The FAA has granted COA for the Mesa County Sheriff’s Department in Arizona to fly the Tremble/Gate-wing XU5 to fly over the county dump. The University of North Carolina has 13 current COAs. I have not heard of any UAS pilot being harassed by the FAA when they have had authorization from the city or county, parks department, port or the property owner who tasked them to perform operations. Do they do these flights for free? Does the Mesa county Sheriff do his flying over the dump for free, after working hours and weekends? Does it mean that you have to be granted a COA in order to be paid to fly a UAS? Does the FAA have to write up a certificate of authorization for pilots to fly manned aircraft? Do these pilots need authorization to fly over private property or from the government official who has authority over public property? It seems that the only people who are restricted are those who are trying to follow the rules to the letter.

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I was at the grand opening of the CALUAS test center in Inyokern California and I saw a gentleman intently focused on a presentation on precision agriculture. I asked him “What is it that interests you about this technology?” He went on to tell me about a women he knew that as a researcher of bats, specifically the White Nose Bat Disease. Her husband was a pilot, she would catch a bat and tag it with a beacon and turn it loose and her husband would track it to the cave and she would go there and do her research. Now her husband had passed away and this gentleman believed that these UAS/Drones could do the job her husband used to do. I am looking for someone in Michigan or near the Austin Texas areas, because these are where the leading research colleges and universities are that study the white nose bat disease. Because it would be unlikely to get permission from property owners the UAS/Drone to get a COA.

Then I have read several articles about safety inspectors using quad-rotors to inspect oil platforms in the artic off of the cost of Canada and the Nordic countries. I have heard that they are using them in the Gulf of Mexico but nobody has come forward. The big excuse for not allowing the commercial use of UAS/Drones is safety but using a quad-rotor for safety inspections rather than having someone who is not a trained climber be a safety issue not to allow it’s use?

I am aggressively looking for the use of UAS/Drones for these applications.