What are DROTAMs?
If you Google search "drotam" you might find that it is a drug that helps with muscle spasms, but that's not what we're talking about today (sorry, I couldn't resist). If you're a pilot, go ahead and add this word to your vocabulary. It is a word that was coined by SkyVector, but I promise you, it is a word and a thing that we will see more and more of.
Every year that goes by, it seems, drones are having a larger and larger impact on the aviation community. On this site we have written about drones almost colliding with Caravans. To help reduce drone vs. manned aircraft collisions, there are now DROTAMs.
On the SkyVector website we learn that, "DROTAMs™ are what SkyVector calls "Drone NOTAMs", or Notices to Airmen defining unmanned aerial systems operating areas (UAS OA)."
"The U.S. Air Force, Customs and Border Protection Agency, public operators with a Certificate of Authorization (COA), or private commercial operators granted a Section 333 exemption may issue NOTAMs to advise pilots of their activities."
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