Drone News: Senate Drone Ban, Commercial UAV, WingtraCloud, and Two New Pilot Institute Courses!

Welcome to your weekly UAS news update, we have four stories for
you this week: NDAA Markup, Commercial UAV Workshops,
WingtraCloud, and two new courses from Pilot Institute!


Now is the time to make our voices heard in the US Senate. The
Senate Armed Services Committee is considering its version of the
National Defense Authorization Act. The House’s NDAA bill
includes the Countering CCP Drones Act, which would ban DJI
Drones.  It’s also important to ensure the Drones for First
Responders Act or the Countering CCP Drones Act isn’t included in
the bill’s language. As a reminder, the Countering CCP Drones Act
plans to ban Chinese drones by revoking to preventing new FCC
approvals, which would affect EVERYONE, including public safety
agencies. The DFR Act would ban Chinese drones in 5 years after
creating an incremental tariff, which would affect everyone,
including public safety agencies that would lose financial aid
after 5 years and have to pay for expensive drones without
subsidies. The Senate will vote on their version of the act next
week, between June 11th and June 13th, so the time to act is
NOW.  Please visit the DAA’s website to contact your
senator!  https://droneadvocacyalliance.com/ Next up,
Commercial UAV Expo is around the corner! I’ll be on a panel with
Desiree Ekstein, Jared, Janacek, Vic Moss, Kenji Sugahara, and
Amy T Wiegand discussing Regulations and Compliance, BVLOS,
Airspace Management, Remote I, Operations Over People and
Vehicles, and more.  The talk is on Tuesday, September 3rd
from 1:00 PM to 3:30 PM and I hope to see you there! 
https://www.expouav.com/session/now-beyond-2024-essentials-for-every-drone-pilot/
Last up, Wingtra released WingtraCLOUD this week! 
WingtraCLOUD is a new software solution for flight planning,
site-based file organization, 3D Planning, and coordinate
systems.  The primary goal of the new software is to
streamline surveyors' workflows and enable more data
capture.  It doesn’t look like WingtraCLOUD currently
integrates an image processing system but integrations are
available according to Wingtra’s website.  We’ll keep you
updated if we see more!  https://wingtra.com/wingtracloud/
Lastly, two new courses: LiDAR and Search and Rescue. Have a
great week, and we’ll see you on Monday for the Live!