Braasch was recently interviewed by Eric Niiler for his Discovery News article “Drones Behaving Badly: Tackling Clogged Skies.” I’m still waiting for the federal government to create and enforce a $25,000 fine for anyone caught flying an unauthorized drone near a manned aircraft. Do we have to have a catastrophe before action is taken?

About the Author

Michael Braasch is the Thomas Professor of Electrical Engineering at Ohio University (OU), a Principal Investigator with the Avionics Engineering Center (also at OU) and is the co-founder of GPSoft LLC (a software company specializing in navigation-related toolboxes for MATLAB). He has been conducting aircraft navigation research for 30 years and is an internationally recognized expert in GPS and inertial navigation.