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Sean Duffy: “Operators in the past would have to get individual waivers…”

Featuring: Sean Duffy, Republican | Secretary of Transportation | National

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Sean Duffy and FAA Announce New Rule for American Drone Dominance

Published | Video Starts at 02:54

And so what we're here to announce today, and Administrator Bedford is going to go into some more details, but we are announcing a new rule to normalize beyond visual line of sight, or BV loss, as it's called. Operators in the past would have to get individual waivers to operate these drones. Very complicated. They were issued on a case by case basis. And because of that complication, I don't think we saw the innovation that we should have in America. (02:54–03:01)

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Asserts that previously, drone operators needed individual waivers to operate drones.

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