The UK public remain sceptical about the use of drones, according to the latest figures released by the air traffic management service, NATS. Almost 80%
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Frequentis develops drone location/video link to emergency services control rooms
Frequentis has developed an application which allows location data and video from drones to feed directly into workstations in the control centre of public safety
Read moreEASA high level conference ends with call to speed up competitive U-Space market
The “Amsterdam Declaration” (see below) was issued by the European Commission, the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) and the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management
Read moreCANSO reaffirms commitment to progress ATM/UTM integration
CANSO – the Civil Air Navigation Services Organisation – has reiterated its commitment to work alongside both manned and unmanned aviation industries to safely integrate
Read moreEASA high level Amsterdam drone conference – what’s missing in U Space?
At the EASA High Level Conference on Drones, taking place in Amsterdam 27-28 November, UTM experts outlined what they thought was missing from the current
Read moreSweden’s LFV is testing drones for small airport surveillance and new UTM concepts
Sweden’s air navigation service provider LFV along with industry partners RISE and Flypulse are investigating whether drones surveillance can be used for monitoring small airports.
Read moreHarmonizing national regulatory approaches – Seventh RPAS CivOps forum set for Madrid, January 2019
RPAS CivOps 2019, the Seventh annual European Civil RPAS Operators & Operations Forum, is taking place in Madrid, Spain on 23 and 24 January 2019. This event is coordinated
Read more“Connecting ATM and UTM presents technical, regulatory and cultural conflicts” – Leslie Cary, ICAO
Leslie Cary is Chief, Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS) Section at the International Civil Aviation Organization What are the upcoming milestones within the ICAO work
Read moreNew UK drone industry working group to help develop BVLOS, VTOL and UTM standards
A Working Group of UK drone operators and other industry stakeholders was set up on 22 November 2018 at City Hall, London, to assist the
Read moreRoland Berger: “close to 100,000 passenger drones flying by 2050”
Roland Berger’s November report on the Urban Air Mobility market (Urban air mobility The rise of a new mode of transportation) forecasts that close to
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