Commentary – Page 15 – Unmanned airspace

Adding UTM to counter UAS will make a whole pizza, instead of just a single slice

November 12, 2020 Philip Butterworth-Hayes Commentary

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

Urban air safety and societal requirements

September 21, 2020 Philip Butterworth-Hayes Commentary

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.

How should we start to define safety risks for UAM/AAM operations?

August 17, 2020 Philip Butterworth-Hayes Commentary, Urban air mobility

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

EASA’s proposed air taxi certification rules “suffer from silo approach to safety”

May 28, 2020 Philip Butterworth-Hayes Commentary

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,

“COVID-19 has increased drone technology investment and sped regulatory action” – Canaccord white paper

May 27, 2020 Jenny Beechener Commentary, UAS traffic management news

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.

Positioning the COVID-19 drone response: delivering medicines but removing privacy rights?

May 11, 2020 Philip Butterworth-Hayes Commentary

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

Data security: the critical foundation of remote ID

January 31, 2020 Philip Butterworth-Hayes Commentary

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

“Time is running out for operators to register their drones in India”

January 27, 2020 Philip Butterworth-Hayes Commentary

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

US UTM companies like the FAA’s remote ID proposal – but will need to write new business plans

January 12, 2020 Philip Butterworth-Hayes Commentary

By Philip Butterworth-Hayes Major unmanned air system (UAS) traffic management companies in the USA have welcomed the Federal Aviation Administration’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM)

The FAA’s Remote ID (RID) NPRM: 87 pages of mostly common sense; 88,645 words of seemingly good intentions, one unnerving blind-spot

January 10, 2020 Philip Butterworth-Hayes Commentary

By: Tom Walker There have been dozens of articles written that break down the recently published “Public Inspection Document” version of the Remote ID (RID)