Pilot license to drone

Joola said:

Ok that makes sense. I feel similarly that the restrictions to operate under the exemption seem extreme for what I would be doing which is a major reason why I've decided to wait until the FAA gets their act together. Thanks for clearing up my confusion and best of luck with the rest of the process.

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Well, it seems I'm wrong! It appears that I can fly commercially at 200 feet or below! This is great news, as I misunderstood a friend this weekend say that unless you had a pilots license, the blanket COA wouldn't allow for commercial drone use. I applied for exemption about 5 or 6 months ago and finally got it about 4 weeks ago. I thought the entire time I could fly commercially 200 ft or below but when I spoke to my buddy, he meant the 500 ft.