If toud believe the news, you'd be convinced that small, home-built unmanned aircraft are haphazardly overtaking the National Airspace System (NAS) without any boundaries or rules. That's far from the truth. Sure, there are innovative commercial designs making the news. But, in reality, it takes more than a backyard, gizmo, and remote control to make the transformation from the design lab into the NAS.Yet, as numerous unmanned aircraft systems return from combat in the Middle East, military training operations in the United States are expected to increase dramatically in the near future. And with this proliferation of UAS, unfettered NAS access-as opposed to expanding special-use airspace-would allow military UAS pilots to train and stay proficient.
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