Proposal for Segregated UAS Airspace
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Proposal for Segregated UAS Airspace
Amazon made the proposal at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett, Calif., urging that high-speed aerial UAS receive their own airspace located between 200' and 400' above ground level. Less capable UAS would be restricted to between 0' and 200'.
Airports and CTR's are no-fly zones for UAS. This will then be about the only places where manned aerial vehicles can land or fly low.
Where does this leave helicopters and off airport landings? While the law in some countries somehow restricts those to emergency or security services, I wonder how the swarm of drones will give way to an EMS helicopter touching down on Trafalgar Square. After all, if UAS could sense and avoid (like manned aircraft) there would be no need for "Amazon's private airspace".
Airports and CTR's are no-fly zones for UAS. This will then be about the only places where manned aerial vehicles can land or fly low.
Where does this leave helicopters and off airport landings? While the law in some countries somehow restricts those to emergency or security services, I wonder how the swarm of drones will give way to an EMS helicopter touching down on Trafalgar Square. After all, if UAS could sense and avoid (like manned aircraft) there would be no need for "Amazon's private airspace".
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Yes the proposal was that no UAS flying above an altitude of 500ft. This means that they are banning UAS from all areas except low lying coastal areas, Florida and Death Valley 
It really is about time that the 'experts' from Amazon learned the difference between height and altitude. Then suddenly things become a lot more difficult as with hilly districts there is not such a nice clean cut off between layers of only 200ft depth measured as Above Ground Level (ie height) as opposed to a flat virtual sea level.
Sorry Amazon that's a 'D' now start the complicated thinking using the correct vertical metric.
It really is about time that the 'experts' from Amazon learned the difference between height and altitude. Then suddenly things become a lot more difficult as with hilly districts there is not such a nice clean cut off between layers of only 200ft depth measured as Above Ground Level (ie height) as opposed to a flat virtual sea level.
Sorry Amazon that's a 'D' now start the complicated thinking using the correct vertical metric.
