An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is known as a
Drone. ICAO classifies unmanned aircraft into two types under Circular 328
AN/190.
- 1) Autonomous
aircraft: currently considered unsuitable for regulation due to legal and
liability issues
- 2) Remotely piloted
aircraft: subject to civil regulation under ICAO and under the relevant
national aviation authority
Utility of these
vehicles can be seen both in military and civil applications, such as policing,
monitoring, hobby, finding objects, delivering light weight objects like pizza,
snacks etc.Few pizza
centers in Bombay are using drones to delivery purpose and has succeed. Companies
in USA, UK, Australia and Canada are mainly using drones for their business
purpose and formulating new laws to govern the use of such drones for
commercial purpose.
Drones are
interesting been used in many purpose even by artist, photography and cinematography.
But permission or license is required to use drones in restricted areas.
Recently one person from New Zealand used drones in prohibited areas in another
country and was in trouble for releasing the sensitive photos. In India the
drones are easily available in the market especially in Delhi markets. The cost
is also very affordable.
In India, the
Directorate General of Civil Aviation allows a limited bandwidth of radio
frequency for recreational flying by civilians, but has nothing in response to
UAVs so far. "We don't have any regulations for drones right now, but are
in the process of preparing some rules,” said Prabhat Kumar, the director
general of the DGCA. “We are looking at regulations being developed in other
countries for reference.” As of now, he said, we do not even have any specific
restriction on how high UAVs can be flown.
Quidich - Company
has used the drones to get information of election rallies during the election
time in India by having tied up with a TV channel. People in big cities are
using drones for hobby flying and children for fun. In big country like India
drones can be used even for surveying farmlands, conserving wildlife and even
for traffic monitoring around the cities regularly. Each year, $6.4 billion is
being spent developing drone technology. Within three years nearly 70,000 jobs
will created in the USA for drone related work and within 2025 nearly around
1,00,000 jobs are expected. Some universities are experimenting with drones how
they can be utilized in education campuses for research, monitoring, teaching
and learning etc. Some cities are banning the using of drones in the city limit
by passing the resolution Eg. Charlottesville is home to the University of
Virginia. In US alone the number of drones to be used will be 30,000 by 2020. Scientists
are inventing drones that can make their own decisions. Good luck drones!!!