Joerg Lamprecht is CEO and co-founder at Dedrone. The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has set out a series of guidance statements on counter drone
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Drone flights over people: industry responds to the NPRM
Matt Fanelli is director of strategy for Skyward, A Verizon company. This article originally appeared on Skyward’s blog The FAA is working to standardize drone
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Winter is coming – a 2019 forecast for the commercial drone and UTM industries
If the global economic trends of the last six decades continue then in the next 18 months there will be a major recession among Western
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European Commission’s U-space demonstrator network: ambitions, challenges and threats
By Philip Butterworth-Hayes The launch on October 19 in Antwerp of the European Union Network of U-space Demonstrators by transport commissioner Violete Bulc is a
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ICAO, drones and the threat of differing national regulations and gaps in standards
A personal view by Peter van Blyenburgh, founder and president of UVS International (https://uvs-international.org) and CEO of Blyenburgh & Co, France (https://rps-info.com & https://rpas-regulations.com) At
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FAA Reauthorization Act passes first hurdle – drone industry approves, others are worried
On 26 September the U.S. House of Representatives voted by 398 votes to 23 to pass the Federal Aviation Administration Reauthorization Act of 2018 (H.R.
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Three take-aways from ICAO’s Drone Enable 2: Answers as well as questions to UTM/ATM integration
By Philip Butterworth-Hayes Integrating two completely different cultural, institutional and technical airspace management systems was never going to be easy but what Drone Enable 2
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Brexit speeds, then slows, commercial drone operations and UTM in the UK
By Philip Butterworth-Hayes The UK Government has published an excellent consultation document (https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/729458/taking-flight-the-future-of-drones-in-the-uk.pdf) asking for stakeholder views on its proposed series of drone regulations, including
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The controllers’ view – UTM roadmap is clear but major questions remain
Ignacio Baca is the Executive Vice President Technical – International Federation of Air Traffic Controllers’ Associations (IFATCA) One of the most interesting events during the
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The central error in decentralised UTM
Andrew Charlton is Managing Director of Aviation Advocacy (http://www.aviationadvocacy.aero/) The European Commission is currently attempting to devise regulations for the operation of U-Space – the proposed
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