The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has issued a Request for Information (RFI) for entities to administer a new aeronautical knowledge test for recreational drone operators.
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FAA waiver permits BVLOS services under North Dakota’s UAS Integration Pilot Program
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has approved Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) test flights in urban environments and over people in North Dakota’s Integration
Read moreSpain’s drone operations in controlled airspace triple in 2019 says ENAIRE
Spanish air navigation service provider ENAIRE has managed 255 drone flights so far in 2019, of which 192 took place in uncontrolled airspace, while the
Read moreGerman airports “planning new drone detection systems and procedures”
Germany is planning a new drone detection system – an 11-mile exclusion-zone – around airports, reports German newspaper, Süddeutsche Zeitung and the UK’s Daily Mail.
Read moreNASA field tests multiple drone flights in the same airspace
NASA field tested interactions between concurrent drone operations using various Unmanned Service Suppliers (USS) within a shared airspace volume under the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
Read moreGOF U-space demonstrates drone flight plan modification during flight
Participants in the Gulf of Finland U-space (GOF USPACE) programme dynamically modified a drone flight plan in-flight within a UTM system during an exercise simulating
Read moreFAA waiver for BVLOS flights in Kansas
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) approved Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) drone operation without visual observers or ground-based radar in the Kansas Unmanned Aircraft
Read moreFAA approves pilot drone food delivery in North Carolina
The Federal Aviation Administration gave approval for partners in the North Carolina Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Integration Pilot Program (IPP) to begin food deliveries by
Read moreCurrent estimates of drone injury risk are “too conservative”, reports latest ASSURE research
Long-standing assumptions about the risk to life from drones colliding with people on the ground have been “overly conservative” according to the latest study released by
Read moreNATO tests passive and active tracking of small UAVs in urban environments
Electro-optical sensors were among tracking devices used during six days of testing at France’s Centre d’entrainement aux actions en zone urbaine (Cenzub) as part of
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