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Kerry Lynch
01 May 2025
While continuing a transition with changeover in leadership and new U.S. administration, the FAA is prioritizing activities surrounding advanced air mobility (AAM), drones, and rulemaking that may enable future technologies, including eVTOL aircraft, according to acting Administrator Chris Rocheleau.
Rocheleau said the BVLOS rulemaking is “getting close to completion. It's sooner than ‘shortly,’” he said. “I've heard shortly now for a little while, and I think that we're getting really close. We've talked to the administration about the importance of the enabling nature of this rule.”
In May, the acting administrator is going to the Dallas-Fort Worth area to explore the uncrewed aircraft system traffic management (UTM) technology in place. This past July, the FAA announced the first authorizations for commercial drone operations using the UTM technology. “To me, those are game changers when we think about the beyond visual line of sight rule and enabling drones to do deliveries.”
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