Should commercial operators be able to fly their drones beyond their line of sight? The question is a big deal for Amazon as well as Walmart, Google and other companies that want to use robotic air vehicles to deliver goods to consumers – but the Federal Aviation Administration needs convincing.
Now the FAA is trying to nail down an answer, thanks to a series of field tests known as Project Pathfinder.
Project Pathfinder is actually a quartet of test programs, aimed at determining the safety of extended drone operations in four scenarios.
