Jordan: Hollywood secured drone exemptions by repurposing manned helicopter safety manuals
Grant Jordan · a16z Podcast | Airspace as the Next Internet-Like Platform · Jan 2, 2019 · at 13:36
Grant Jordan, founder of SkySafe, explains how the movie industry streamlined Section 333 regulatory approval by transferring established helicopter flight safety protocols to drone filming.
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“They paved the way for the use of drones in filming because they already had all of the safety procedures and flight manuals and things that they'd been using for manned helicopter shoots for years. So they literally just took those and shifted them over and, you know, called it. This is the manual for shooting with drones. And that's what kind of lets you get the three 33 exemptions for shooting so easily now.”
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