The last thing I want is to put a date out there and then to have anybody, either the FAA, or you or the public drive to the date instead of the end result or the process.

Dan Elwell

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If you said October I wouldn't even say that, only because we haven't finished determining exactly what the training requirements will be, if it takes a year to find everything we need to give us the confidence to lift the (grounding) order so be it.

We’re a country that’s very good at doing iterative involvement in aviation, we just don’t throw things up there and see what happens.

To be engaged in one new entrant piece, which is drones, on almost a daily basis, tells you how much attention is being paid to drone space.

Silicon Valley is used to doing changes in their tech generations in months. The FAA and the big aviation world is used to doing technological refreshes and changes in decades, so the federal level is catching up, but it’s impossible to say how long it’s going to take because we don’t know the extent to which drones are going to come into the space.