By Jenny Beechener A lack of industry standards in areas such as service quality, reliability and drone identification is hampering the deployment of UTM services
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Category: Emerging regulations
EASA publishes proposed standards for certification of light drones
The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has published a proposal of airworthiness standards for the certification of the vast majority of light unmanned aircraft.
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African Drone Forum supports harmonised regulations across the continent
The African Drone Forum is reviewing regulations pertaining to Remotely Piloted Aircraft in Africa, with a view to have them harmonised across the continent, according
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States and industry provide inputs into EASA U-space draft regulations
The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) met (virtually) with National Aviation Authorities and the Informal European Drone Experts Group last week in two forums which
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Dubai issues new drone operating and power supply rules
On July 4, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE, issued announced new regulations governing drone operations in Dubai
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Implementing BVLOS requires additional regulatory steps, says UAST co-chair
By Jenny Beechener “Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) is not working so well,” Co-Chair of the Unmanned Aircraft Safety Team (UAST) and Federal Aviation
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ANSI publishes standardisation roadmap for unmanned aircraft systems, version 2.0
The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) has published the Standardization Roadmap for Unmanned Aircraft Systems (Version 2.0). The roadmap was developed by the Institute’s UAS Standardization
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US releases initial Urban Air Mobility ConOps, inspired by UTM operations
The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has released an initial Concept of Operations (ConOps) for Urban Air Mobility. The 30-page document describes how urban air
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SORA Consulting publishes document map for EU SORA authorisation requests
SORA Consulting (http://www.soraconsulting.ch/) has published a graphic to show how drone operators can get operational authorisation for drones using the JARUS-based Specific Operations Risk Assessment
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FAA Drone Advisory Committee gives broad support to CONOPs V2 but requires more clarity
The Drone Advisory Committee (DAC) of the US Federal Aviation Administration has given its broad support to the FAA UTM Conops V2 document, but has
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