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NEWS IN FOCUS them for aerial photography and package Geographer Scott Drzyzga of Shippensburg has used the devices to monitor the effects of delivery. This has put the FAA under pressure to University in Pennsylvania, for example, drought on soya beans. He did not know that develop regulations prohibiting uses of drones enjoys flying small helicopters in his free time, he was required to fill out a 50application that compromise safety or violate privacy. A few and had hoped to show his students how to for each field he wanted to survey. Instead, he years ago, the US Congress ordered the FAA to use them to capture geographical information. sought and obtained verbal permission from develop such rules by September 2015. But in a “There are things I can do as a recreational user FAA staff at a local airport. Shortly after his report this July, the US Department of Trans- that I cannot do in front of my students,” he university issued a press release about his work portation’s inspector general expressed doubt says. “It’s frustrating.” in 2011, Purcell received a cease-and-desist let- that the FAA would make its deadline. Alison Duquette, a spokesperson for the FAA, ter from the FAA’s regional office. “It’s still very The administration has shut down almost says that the distinction has been in place for confusing as to what’s allowed right now and all commercial drone flights until those regula- years, and the agency has always made it clear. what’s not,” he says. Purcell has turned to kites tions are in place — to the ire of some research- Engineer Mary Cummings at Duke Uni- to carry his cameras aloft, but the compromise ers. “The FAA’s severe restrictions on research