All Between The Ages Of 9 And 12

ANN's April 1 "April Fool" Special Edition

FAA Administrator Michael Huerta announced today that the FAA will begin recruitment of a legion of new inspectors to enforce UAV rules. All of the new inspectors will be between the ages of 9 and 12 years old.

“Considering the huge numbers of UAVs that are currently out there,” Huerta told ANN, “this really makes sense. We literally need an army of new inspectors in order to enforce the new and up-coming FARs for UAVs. There is a ready population of kids out there who would love to do this work.”

The FAA recently began citing UAV operators who post videos on YouTube as a violation of UAV Commercial Operation  regulations.

“These kids are far more capable at handling social media than  any of our current inspectors.” Huerta explained, “and if you’ve ever raised a kid you know that they never miss anything and they remember every detail. So, we could actually have an inspector in every neighborhood on the country.”

The new inspectors would apply on-line and once approved would be sent a printable badge and FAA inspector’s ID that reads “Really, for real FAA inspector.”

Of course the new inspectors cannot be paid and instead would be given every UAV that they report and have confiscated by  FAA. They must, however, promise that they, too, will fly their new UAV strictly within the FARs ... otherwise the kid up the block will turn them in and get the UAV for themselves.

“We went for ages up to 12,” Huerta explained, “because once a kid hits 13 they stop paying attention and become a real pain.”

When asked what FAA is going to do when legions of 12-year-olds turn into teenagers and now have their own, free UAVs, Huerta simply shrugged and said that FAA would cross that bridge in 15 or 20 years.

FMI: www.faa.gov