Links Available to Presentations Made at March 2025 Spray Drone User Conference, Including NAAA’s Uncrewed Airspace Safety, Environmental Stewardship Education Presentation

Links are now available from the multitude of presentations made at the March 2025 Spray Drone User Conference in Mobile, Alabama.  These include NAAA’s presentation, delivered by CEO Andrew Moore, emphasizing the importance of spray drone users to safely operate in the presence of crewed ag aircraft by giving them the right-of-way at all times, equipping with ADS-B Out technology, and monitoring radio frequency 122.925 for the presence of crewed ag aircraft.  Moore also emphasized the requirement to be licensed as a Part 137 operator and as a commercial pesticide applicator and to notify the authorities if they are aware of operations not following this and other such laws to protect the industry’s reputation from bad actors. He also emphasized that spray drone operators participate annually in the Professional Aerial Application Support System (PAASS) curriculum and spray system calibration and pattern-perfecting offered by NAAA/NAAREF, Operation S.A.F.E. Fly-In clinics. Moreover, he emphasized that spray drone operators belong to and participate as members of NAAA for the crucial services they provide in registering pesticides for aerial use, which includes crewed and uncrewed aircraft, and the critical airspace safety services they offer.  The link to all the presentations may be found by clicking here, and clicking Contents.  The NAAA presentation may be found by clicking Agenda at 42:36.  It concludes at 1:15:03.

Many common national ag retailers, aviation insurance, and pesticide manufacturers attended, participated, and contributed at the conference. According to the American Spray Drone Coalition, which also presented at the conference, 10.3 million acres are treated by uncrewed aerial application systems annually.  Click here for the eNewsletter’s initial story on the conference.