The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has announced two important expansions of the Low Altitude Authorization and Capability (LAANC) programme, which automates the application and approval process for
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Category: UAS traffic management news
Queensland to build new drone flight test facility
Queensland’s Minister for State Development has announced a AUD14.5 million investment for the first phase of a commercial drone flight testing facility at Cloncurry Airport,
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GUTMA to hold next “Connected Skies” event in Barcelona, 26 February 2020
The Global UTM Association’s (GUTMA) next “Connected Skies” conference will take place on 26 February in Barcelona, Spain. According to the association: “Following the success
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Whitefox and partners demonstrate drone remote ID at DroneEnable3 event
California-based drone security company WhiteFox reports its drone and operator identification system was demonstrated by drone manufacturer during the United Nations International Civil Aviation Organization
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New Austrian consortium formed to supply ANSP with automatic drone flight risk
The Carinthia University of Applied Sciences (FH Carinthia) is developing an online platform to support risk assessment of drone flights with weather service data provider
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Nokia and Sendai City use LTE network to support drone test flights
Sendai City and Nokia successfully conducted a test flight of a Nokia drone on a private LTE network provided by Nokia Digital Automation Cloud. They tested
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EASA postpones U-Space Draft Opinion to February 2020
The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) will now publish its Draft Opinion on U-Space regulations for comment by European Union member states and aviation stakeholders
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ICAO’s DroneEnable3 is a further step along the road to globalising UTM
How to apply the Global Aviation Trust Framework under development by the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) to the global UAS traffic management industry –
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New York completes 50-mile BVLOS test corridor
The 50-mile drone testing corridor which runs from Central New York to the Mohawk Valley has been declared open, three years after the project was
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DJI develops drone-to-phone remote ID capability
DJI has demonstrated a direct drone-to-phone, Wi-Fi based solution to remotely identify airborne drones, “pioneering an easy way for anyone with a smartphone to monitor
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