Pc Mike's Techcast

What you need to know about personal drones, their uses, what and how you can fly them and much more.In this episode, we focus in on drones.We interviewMary "Missy" Cummings is an associate professor at Duke University and director of Duke's Humans and Autonomy Laboratory. She was one of the U.S. Navy's first female fighter pilots and she is now one of the nation's top experts on personal drones-She talks about the history of drones, from the military to the hobbyists-The overreaching absurdity of the FAA’s current drone regulations -How the problems we have seen stem from inadequate “situational awareness” from the drone’s control station, or transmitter-The need for better training for drone hobbyists-How drones have become more than a $1 billion industry-How France will be using drones to deliver mail and packages-How “geo-fencing” can keep drones out of certain areas – unless a big gust of wind blows them across the “line”-How drones will become even m