heisan wrote: Tue Nov 15, 2022 9:58 pm
viki wrote: Tue Nov 15, 2022 9:28 pm
Unfortunately we all have been shot in the foot whether we keep quiet or not i realized this years ago, might as well be noisy about it, only the few big players that planned the monopoly well in advance will continue to roll in the dough, just to think we could have been a leader in the world providing drone deliveries by now. Austrailia the US and Ireland is at the forefront of this exciting field.
Ah, lovely examples. Amazon in the USA requires a full Part 135 operation to run their drones. And until recently, the required a minimum Part 61 license for pilots too. Australia's rules are pretty much the same as ours. Ireland is far stricter.
Here's some lovely examples indeed :
https://www.euronews.com/next/2022/10/0 ... -of-the-us
https://www.manna.aero
https://www.rte.ie/news/regional/2022/1 ... sk-dublin/
"Drone deliveries have finally become a reality in parts of the United States, and for some users, they arrive in less than 15 minutes.
Several drone delivery services including Amazon, Alphabet-owned Wing and Israeli start-up Flytrex have started operating in the country after receiving a green light from the Federal Aviation Administration."
"Tiffany Bokhari lives in Frisco, Texas. She first tested Wing's drone delivery app out of curiosity, and she did it again when she needed a band-aid.
It's now the third time a drone brings her the light goods she ordered from her smartphone – in this case, snacks and that cold soda."
"I think it's better to be delivered by drone versus car because it's helpful for the environment, you know. It saves gas, and money, and saves the environment," she said.
As for Australia
Drone delivery has become increasingly integrated into the lives of Australians over the last several years. Wing completed more than 100,000 drone deliveries in Australia last year, and has already surpassed 30,000 in just the first two months of 2022.01 Mar 2022.
The international stage is making us look like toddlers trying to play in a sandpit !
In reality we have too much red tape, too much over regulation and a few odd individuals keeping it this way as it suits their pockets and lack of inspiration for the industry.
No matter how much "talk" there was since 2016 that regulations have changed, that the drone industry would expand and provide more job opportunities in SA, (and there has been a lot of talk) nothing ever comes to fruit, there has never been ANY progress to push the industry forward in South Africa.
as if the industry is not already 
