The FAA yesterday issued another five exemptions for commercial UAS operations to four companies under Section 333 of the FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012. The new exemptions greatly broaden the spectrum for legal commercial UAS uses, which has previously only been approved for movie making operations operating in controlled environments. The companies that obtained the latest round of exemptions are Trimble Navigation Limited; VDOS Global, LLC; Clayco, Inc.; and Woolpert, Inc.
Clayco, Inc. will use its drones for construction site monitoring and Trimble will incorporate its own UAS, the Trimble UX5 Aerial Imaging Rover, into the surveillance of such operations as oil and gas, mining, construction and agriculture.
