“The federal-state breakdown about who manages drone airspace and surface air rights has not been resolved, which, as the Government Accountability Office recently reported to
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Category: Commentary
“The real industry bottleneck is fear of a mid-air collision” – ICAO Drone Enable 2022
By Jenny Beechener Five speakers agreed on the need for a layered safety case approach to low altitude drone separation at the ICAO Drone Enable
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“New ARC report enables routine BVLOS operations to unlock fresh high-value opportunities”
By John Vernon, DroneUp CTO The BVLOS (Beyond Visual Line of Sight) Aviation Rulemaking Committee’s (ARC) final report that the FAA published in early March
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Draft vertiport design standards “show marked differences to ICAO helipad requirements”
The FAA’s initial vertiport design brief shows some marked differences from conventional helipad design standards, according to Toby Enzerink, Drone Consultant at AirHub Vertiport designs
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How much will DroneUp’s business model disrupt the global UTM sector?
By Philip Butterworth-Hayes DroneUp’s takeover of AirMap (https://www.unmannedairspace.info/commentary/does-the-droneup-airmap-tie-up-mean-the-end-of-the-independent-utm-service-supplier-market/) will have major consequences for the global UAS traffic management (UTM) industry. The company’s business model –
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Does the DroneUp/AirMap tie-up mean the end of the independent UTM service supplier market?
By Philip Butterworth-Hayes The announcement that DroneUp has acquired AirMap (https://www.unmannedairspace.info/news-first/droneup-acquires-airmap-creates-airspace-management-and-drone-market-ecosystem/) is extremely good news for the UAS traffic management (UTM) sector. It ensures that
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Altitude Angel reflects on emerging UTM market and commercial opportunities for the drone sector
Unified Traffic Management (UTM) company Altitude Angel released a blog following World ATM Congress 2021, summarising the company’s key takeaways from the industry event. World
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New integrated ATM/U-space services and capabilities will meet the airspace integration challenges of Urban Air Mobility
Giancarlo Ferrara, R&D Work Programme Coordinator at EUROCONTROL’s Drone/U-space Unit reports on how this SESAR research programme will support drone and passenger air taxi vehicles
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Commercial drones “could cut CO2 emissions for freight deliveries by half” – Cranfield University
As part of the report, ‘UAVs: Unlocking positive transformation in the world’, Cranfield University has used its own modelling and primary data resources to compare the
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Which elements of the drone ecosystem fall within FAA type certification?
Andrew Carter, Co-founder & CTO of ResilienX This is an edited version of the article “FAA Memo Specifies “Associated Elements for UAS Operations” republished
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