But Has NOT Been Given The Blessing Of The FAA

A baseball team in spring training has been using a UAV hovering over its stadium in Florida for the past month to get aerial images of the team. They're shots that could not be gotten in any other way.

But the team has not been given permission from the FAA to use a UAV in such a manner. Which team? The Washington Nationals ... Washington D.C.'s baseball team.

Fox Sports relays a report from the Associated Press that a team official not authorized to speak to the media said the team did not seek permission from the FAA to fly the UAV over the stadium, but "we don't get our pop flies cleared either, and those go higher than this thing did."

The FAA prohibits any commercial use of even small unmanned aircraft, which advocates say is far behind other countries. But the head of the FAA's UAV office Jim Williams says that that writing the rules in the U.S. is "far more complex" than it might be elsewhere because there is far more air traffic in U.S. airspace comprised of a greater variety of aircraft.

It was not reported whether the FAA required the Nats to stop flying their quadcopter.

(Quadcopter image from file. Not Nats' UAV)

FMI: www.faa.gov