If you are on the FAA mailing list you probably received this notice from them in your mailbox. Seven new providers of LAANC services means seven more ideas of how to present the map information and proceed with authorization. Hmm, how many ways can you display an interactive map and a submit button? 
I wouldn't classify this notice as "exciting." Those folks in the FAA office must be real bored!
My recent flight plan authorizations this week via AirMap have taken all of ten seconds to get approved. Faster than I can reach in my shirt pocket and pull out my cell phone for the notice since I do all my planning and submission on the Mac. Can't get much faster than that.
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Attention #Drone Pilots – Read This - Exciting Updates to the Low Altitude Authorization and Notification Capability
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) today announced two important expansions of the Low Altitude Authorization and Capability (LAANC), which automates the application and approval process for drone pilots to obtain airspace authorizations in controlled airspace.
The capability is now active at Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport, Dulles International Airport, William P. Hobby Airport in Houston and Newark Liberty International Airport. A full list of airports covered by LAANC is available on our website.
Seven additional companies have been approved by the FAA to provide LAANC services.
LAANC directly supports the safe integration of UAS into the nation’s airspace, expedites the time it takes for drone pilots to receive authorizations to fly under 400 feet in controlled airspace. LAANC also provides pilots with an awareness of where they can and cannot fly.
The program is accessible to all pilots who operate under the FAA’s small drone rule (Part 107) and was expanded in July to provide near real-time airspace authorizations to recreational flyers.
LAANC provides airspace authorizations only. Pilots must still check NOTAMs and weather conditions before they fly.
I wouldn't classify this notice as "exciting." Those folks in the FAA office must be real bored!My recent flight plan authorizations this week via AirMap have taken all of ten seconds to get approved. Faster than I can reach in my shirt pocket and pull out my cell phone for the notice since I do all my planning and submission on the Mac. Can't get much faster than that.
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Attention #Drone Pilots – Read This - Exciting Updates to the Low Altitude Authorization and Notification Capability
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) today announced two important expansions of the Low Altitude Authorization and Capability (LAANC), which automates the application and approval process for drone pilots to obtain airspace authorizations in controlled airspace.
The capability is now active at Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport, Dulles International Airport, William P. Hobby Airport in Houston and Newark Liberty International Airport. A full list of airports covered by LAANC is available on our website.
Seven additional companies have been approved by the FAA to provide LAANC services.
LAANC directly supports the safe integration of UAS into the nation’s airspace, expedites the time it takes for drone pilots to receive authorizations to fly under 400 feet in controlled airspace. LAANC also provides pilots with an awareness of where they can and cannot fly.
The program is accessible to all pilots who operate under the FAA’s small drone rule (Part 107) and was expanded in July to provide near real-time airspace authorizations to recreational flyers.
LAANC provides airspace authorizations only. Pilots must still check NOTAMs and weather conditions before they fly.
