Arthur Collins Kimball

Document ID: FAA-2012-0252-0011
Document Type: Public Submission
Agency: Federal Aviation Administration
Received Date: March 10 2012, at 12:00 AM Eastern Standard Time
Date Posted: March 12 2012, at 12:00 AM Eastern Standard Time
Comment Start Date: March 9 2012, at 12:00 AM Eastern Standard Time
Comment Due Date: May 8 2012, at 11:59 PM Eastern Standard Time
Tracking Number: 80fd3e03
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This is comment on Proposed Rule

Unmanned Aircraft System Test Sites

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There is one area that should be of use for UAV testing due to the lack of General Aviation traffic. The Washington DC area would be ideal due to the extensive coverage already there to document any problems encountered during the test. In this area the UAV's could be of all the sizes and various mass configurations that are to be considered. The UAV traffic could be routed to the New York area for further testing without moving the operators from the operations facility. The UAV's could also fly south to the Norfolk area so that they could be tracked and evaluated by NAVLANT to see if they are compatible with , and can be tracked by all of the service branches as well as civilian observers. There should be plenty of targets for the testing units to interact with.