There is a need to define an appropriate set of UAS requirements for base UAS Traffic Management UTM capabilities, says Andy Thurling, NUAIR Chief Technology
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Category: Commentary
Why Silicon Valley Agile engineering approaches won’t work for urban air mobility
“Smart City” efforts appear to be significantly behind where they can and should be in ensuring safe urban environments for new air and ground services
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Adding UTM to counter UAS will make a whole pizza, instead of just a single slice
By Amit Ganjoo, Founder and CEO of ANRA Technologies This industry faces a situation similar to that faced by manned aviation faced about 80 years
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Urban air safety and societal requirements
By Gary Cutts, Challenge Director, Future Flight, UK Research and Innovation The UK has been at the forefront of aviation for more than 100 years.
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How should we start to define safety risks for UAM/AAM operations?
By David Gleave Setting the target level of safety for unmanned operations has been causing difficulties across the industry for a while. This article seeks
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EASA’s proposed air taxi certification rules “suffer from silo approach to safety”
The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has published its proposed methods on how to certify hybrid or electric air taxis. David Gleave, safety editor with Unmanned Publications,
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“COVID-19 has increased drone technology investment and sped regulatory action” – Canaccord white paper
A Q2/20 follow-on report released by global investment bank Canaccord Genuity says the drone ecosystem will grow as a result of COVID-19, reports UAS Vision.
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Positioning the COVID-19 drone response: delivering medicines but removing privacy rights?
By Chris Stonor At the start of May a French judge ruled in favour of allowing the Interior Ministry to continue to use drones to
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Data security: the critical foundation of remote ID
By Jon Hegranes, founder and CEO of Kittyhawk This commentary was first published on the Kittyhawk website https://kittyhawk.io/blog/data-security-the-critical-foundation-for-remote-id/ on 29 January 2020 and is being
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“Time is running out for operators to register their drones in India”
Drone operators in India have until 31 January 2020 to register their drones. Drone Help Line has received multiple requests from industry seeking clarity on
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