The CAA have revised the ANO, the UK government are undertaking a consultation that we seriously urge you to take part in, the details can be found here, and some customers are beginning to ask about insurance, PfCOs etc.
Now, grandaddy worldwide magazine, National Geographic have joined in on the ‘safe drone use’ campaign. They’ve issued a release today, updating the rules to their photo guidelines. Not only have they now included a section on drones but they have stated that any submitted images by drone must comply with aviation law. The guidelines only state Federal and State laws but we can only assume it’ll be rolling out worldwide and apply to the country that you are taking the photo in.
How exactly they’ll police this? We can only guess and no doubt the rule is as much for them (as advised by an expensive lawyer) as it is about safe drone use. But, they’re a big player and if they start trying to remind people to be safe and not break the law then that can only be a good thing for us all.