mr. whitaker: we will. i think granting the railroad authority to operate beyond line of sight is part of that effort to lean forward. mr. meadows: all right. i yield back, thank you, mr. chairman. mr. mica: thank you. mr. lynch. mr. lynch: thank you, mr. chairman. i want to thank the panel members for your help this morning. i think all of you have contributed well through this, through the understanding that we are gaining regarding this technology. mr. geiger i think some of the ramifications that you've brought to mind are very, very helpful. mr. whitaker, the problem that i have, the greatest concern i have is the interface or the fit between f.a.a. and a technology which might become ubiquitous at some point in the near future. in your testimony or in one of your answer as you said that the system being developed will allow us to keep drones away from people and other sensitive areas. the problem i have is, with hat you're doing now, with aircraft, i represent logan airport. that area. myself and mr. c

mr. whitaker with the faa. i was flying my aircraft over the eastern shore in the naval airspace area in contact with air traffic control the entire time. and i had an aircraft, a model aircraft buzzed through the airspace 10 feet off the nose of the aircraft about 10 feet away in front and i was like that 2500 feet. but this can happen with recreational model aircraft usage. i have real concerns about uavs after flying around. i understand if commercial operations. this is something, trying to make a more regulated and i would expect that commercial entities would be much more responsible about how they fly the aircraft. are there any moves to acquire for commercial use the use of transponders on the uav is? >> you raise a lot of interesting issues. i think in the small uas will of course it would be an aeronautical knowledge test requirement for your operatives would be more sophisticated than amateur operators. a lot of the operators on the amateur side are just not funny aviation sector and to realize they'

mr. whitaker: safety is a priority. mr. mica: by the same token we are falling behind than some of the other countries. mr. misener, what have you seen -- this hearing is about commercialization and moving forward. is the u.s. falling behind? $10 billion, a billion a year for the next 10 years by not having commercial rules in place for operation of drones. mr. misener: u.s. planning is not as aggressive as it is in other countries. mr. mica: there are a host of issues, privacy and who basically is in charge of setting the rules for privacy that the individual states and law enforcement? is it the department of justice? is this an f.a.a. responsibility in the rules you are crafting. mr. whittaker, maybe you could shed some light on how we protect people's privacy. . they have opened for public comment. i think that's closed. a stakeholder in this conversation. but we do -- mr. mica: so we need to call them and ask them and have their rules in place for protecting privacy. mr. whitaker: they have the lead on the issue. motor

mr. whitaker? >> they are required to be reported, yes. >> have any close calls on drones on care craft, on commercial aircraft been reported? >> i don't have any recollection of any evasive maneuvers being taken. mostly what we receive is sightings of unmanned aircraft in controlled airspace near airports. >> is there any sense in licensing these unmanned aircraft? do we even know how many there are in our country? >> we believe these typically are involving the amateur operators of what we tend to call model aircraft. but the kind that you can buy and operate anywhere. they are unregulated. we're prohibited by statute from regulating that sector. >> should somebody be regulating that sector? >> they are wandering into to prohibited airspace. so they are violating law. our focus, as you pointed out, has been to have an education campaign to let people know where they can fly, can't fly. we're work to go develop an app people can use to see whether they are in restricted airspace or their unmanned

mr. president" and as you can imagine -- a ugandan dictator -- forest whitaker came up to me in the hotel once, i said "hi, forest!" and he went -- [ growling ] yeah, i'm not doing that. but basically, this was the one time i thought, you know what, if i'm ever going to do it, let it be a one-man movie -- >> seth: right. >> -- where other actors aren't going to think "what an a-hole" like jason said. and so i decided to use it for that and actually, it was pretty incredible, the benefits of just staying in character the whole time. especially when you have a guy who has seven voices going around his head the whole time. so, yeah. >> seth: so, it actually worked. and you filmed this before "selma" -- >> yes. >> seth: -- and so then, you did the same on "selma"? >> i did do the same thing on "selma" for different reasons though, because i talk like this. >> seth: yeah. >> and if you are in atlanta, where dr. king is from -- >> seth: yeah. >> -- and you are about to preach to 700 extras and go, "hello, everyone, i'm playing dr. king!" [ laughter ] >> seth: takes them out of it. it's a little