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Unmanned drones all over US skies within 36 months!

Unmanned drones all over US skies within 36 months, and then the rest of the world!

STAND UP AND SAY NO-by-Ray-Alex

I think most of us are all aware of who`s ruling this world by now. This group of EVIL men has always wanted to rule the entire world. In the past their quest has failed to achieve this with 100%, due to the resulting outrage and awareness of the enemy. In our present time this evil group are trying another subtle but effective way to rule. This is to gradually infiltrate and delude the masses into accepting ONLY their ideas. Such subtle gradualism, along with distraction (such as unnecessary work, study, entertainment and sport and) is being used effectively. Few people will therefore be aware of what is going on. Now they wont to take control over the skies above out heads, to have drones in the air 24/7, and take control over our privacy. When will we say NO MORE, when will we wake up?

And if you look at aviation member organizations how they are now celebrating “what they call” a historic victory with Congressional passage of a US FAA reauthorization bill yesterday that includes no user fees. While celebration is certainly in order, a major, troubling part of the bill has escaped largely unnoticed? The mandated opening of U.S. airspace to drone aircraft “unmanned aircraft systems” (UAS) in just three years. If signed into law by President Obama which is expected to happen the legislation would not permit but require widespread deployment of unmanned aircraft throughout the national airspace system by 2015, with some major deployments mandated even sooner. Very small UAS will be granted access in as little as 90 days, and models as large as 55 pounds would be granted access in just 27 months. The law sets a deadline of all UAS being integrated into the NAS in just over three years (by Sept. 30, 2015)  This is done to protect all their interests, the media often give no publicity or bad publicity to alternate ideas or good parties. The reason why so many people are not aware of these things happening is that the conspirators control all the main media and education systems. So to control our privacy from the air is just another way to have us under their surveillance and total control. So here it is, unmanned drones all over US skies within 36 months, and then the rest of the world! We have to STAND UP AND SAY NO, sooner or later. If not? We`re dog food…

Police drones - soon everywhere!

This bill to speed the US nation’s switch from radar to an air traffic control system based on GPS technology, and to open U.S. skies to unmanned drone flights within 3 years, received final congressional approval on Monday. The bill passed the Senate 75-20, despite labour opposition to a deal cut between the Democratic-controlled Senate and the Republican-controlled House on rules governing union organizing elections at airlines and rail roads. The House had passed the bill last week, and it now goes to President Barack Obama for his signature. The bill authorizes $63.4 billion for the Federal Aviation Administration over four years, including about $11 billion toward the air traffic system and its modernization. It accelerates the modernization program by setting a deadline of June 2015 for the FAA to develop new arrival procedures at the nation’s 35 busiest airports so planes can land using the more-precise GPS navigation. Instead of time-consuming, fuel-burning, stair-step descents, planes will be able to glide in more steeply with their engines idling. Planes will also be able to land and take off closer together and more frequently, even in poor weather, because pilots will know the precise location of other aircraft and obstacles on the ground. Fewer planes will be diverted.

Eventually, FAA officials want the airline industry and other aircraft operators to install on-board satellite technology that updates the location of planes every second instead of radar’s every six to 12 seconds. That would enable pilots to tell not only the location of their plane, but other planes equipped with the new technology as well something they can’t do now. The system is central to the FAA’s plans for accommodating a forecast 50 percent growth in air traffic over the next decade. Most other nations already have adopted satellite-based technology for guiding planes, or are heading in that direction, but the FAA has moved cautiously. The U.S. accounts for 35 percent of global commercial air traffic and has the world’s most complicated airspace, with greater and more varied private aviation than other countries.

DRONE Mania - by Ray Alex

Is this how we want it?

The bill is “the best news that the airline industry ever had,”  said Sen. Jay Rockefeller, “It will take us into a new era.” ( Ohh yeah I bet it will A-hole!)

The FAA is also required under the bill to provide military, commercial and privately owned drones with expanded access to U.S. airspace currently reserved for manned aircraft by Sept. 30, 2015. That means permitting unmanned drones controlled by remote operators on the ground to fly in the same airspace as airliners, cargo planes, business jets and private aircraft. Currently, the FAA restricts drone use primarily to segregated blocks of military airspace, border patrols and about 300 public agencies and their private partners. Those public agencies are mainly restricted to flying small unmanned aircraft at low altitudes away from airports and urban centres. Within nine months of the bill’s passage, the FAA is required to submit a plan on how to safely provide drones with expanded access.

The bill’s passage culminates a five-year struggle by Congress to pass a long-term FAA authorization bill. The last long-term operating authorization for the agency expired in 2007. The agency has continued to limp along under a series of 23 short-term extensions, but its ability to commit to decisions on major acquisition programs that extend over many years, like air traffic modernization, was hindered by the uncertainty over how much it could spend and by a lack of direction from Congress. Providing that stability is critical to the health of the commercial aviation industry, which accounts for about 5 percent of U.S. economic output, lawmakers said.

Somebody is thinking..?

Several labour issues over the years have frustrated efforts to pass a bill. Most recently, a Republican-drafted bill that cleared the House last spring included a provision that would have overturned a National Mediation Board ruling allowing airline and rail road employees to form a union by a simple majority of those voting. Under the old rule, workers who didn’t vote were treated as “no” votes. The labour provision, which was opposed by the Democratic-controlled Senate, became the principal issue holding up the bill. A compromise reached two weeks ago by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, allows the mediation board’s rules to stand, but it also toughens some lesser requirements that must be met in order to hold a union organizing election. While the compromise was acceptable to some unions, more than a dozen other unions that represent airline industry workers including the Teamsters, Communications Workers, Machinists and Flight Attendants complained the deal was reached without their input and urged its rejection.

Sen Tom Harkin "D"-Iowa - at least someone is thinking!

Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, said he decided to vote against the bill because of the labour provisions even though the measure contains “many good things.” He said he was taking a stand against “a few of these powerful companies who don’t want their workers to have representation” because someday they “might have to put a few additional dollars in their workers’ pockets.” The bill also limits air service subsidies to the approximately 150 communities that already receive subsidized service. And it would trim about a dozen communities from the program after a year if they are within 175 miles of a hub airport and average less than 10 passengers a day, at a savings of about $20 million a year.

House Republicans initially had proposed eliminating the entire $200 million-a-year program except for subsidized service in Alaska and Hawaii. Conservatives had singled out the program as an example of government extravagance. Last summer, a partisan stand off over a House attempt to cut 13 cities from the program, as well as the labour provision, resulted in two-week, partial shut-down of the FAA. More than 4,000 FAA employees were furlough, work was halted on more than 100 airport construction projects and the government lost an estimated $350 million in airline ticket taxes.

The pace of adoption will be head spinning. The legislation would allow emergency agencies, such as law enforcement. to begin flying UAS in limited cases within three months. These craft could weigh up to nearly five pounds. UAS up to 55 pounds could take to the open skies in just over two years. The FAA is working on a notice of proposed rule making on unmanned aircraft but has not announced a date for publishing it yet. The craft exist today in a state of regulatory limbo: they are neither specifically allowed or prohibited from flying in most airspace. This is one issue the new regulations will address. The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, the nation’s largest pilot member association, is concerned about the legislation. Heidi Williams, AOPA VP of Air Traffic Services and Modernization, summarized the organization’s position by saying that “while AOPA supports the integration of UAS into the national airspace system, it must be done in a way that does not adversely affect the safety or operations of existing airspace operators.” Williams pointed out the lack of current collision avoidance technology, saying that “UAS currently lack the necessary technologies to safely operate in a ‘see and avoid’ environment. In order to safely operate in the airspace system without segregation and without any negative impact on general aviation, we need clear certification standards that UAS and UAS operators can meet that allow the systems to be integrated just like piloted aircraft.”

At the National Business Aviation Association, Steve Brown, senior VP of Operations, expressed concern over the rapid timetable for adoption: “Our position [at NBAA] has been to support UAS access to the NAS based on a FAA Safety assessment and certification process that would ensure safe flight integration with human piloted aircraft.” But based on the ambitious timetable and scope of the plan, Brown said, it was unclear whether “the legislation would accommodate FAA’s safety work by 2015 or any other future date.” Doug Macnair, VP of government affairs for the Experimental Aircraft Association, was on the same page: “The bottom line is,” he told Flying, “that UAS need to find a means of working seamlessly and safely into the existing NAS and not deprive other users of airspace or operational safety and efficiency.”

NO MATTER WHAT, IT`s A SEVERE VIOLATION OF EVERY HUMANS PRIVACY.

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