UTM industry-leader interview Archives

“U-space deployment builds on successful partnership between research and industry”

June 14, 2021 Philip Butterworth-Hayes UTM industry-leader interview

In 2017 the SESAR Joint Undertaking drafted the U-space blueprint, a vision of how to make U-space operationally possible. The blueprint proposes the implementation of

“We strongly believe that the Skyarc platform will be the common digital UTM platform by Russia’s ANSP”

May 21, 2021 Philip Butterworth-Hayes UTM industry-leader interview

Alexey Khripunov is Chief Executive Officer of Skyarc, a Russian UAS traffic management (UTM) company implementing its system in the airspace above St Petersburg Can

“The drone services and UTM markets are huge and diverse and GUTMA should cover everything”

May 5, 2021 Philip Butterworth-Hayes UTM industry-leader interview

Koen De Vos is the new Secretary General of the Global UTM Association (GUTMA) What is going to be the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic

Is Europe’s U-space regulatory concept viable? A conversation with Unifly

April 23, 2021 Philip Butterworth-Hayes Emerging regulations, UTM industry-leader interview

Leon van de Pas is Chief Executive Officer and Koen Meuleman is co-founder and Regulatory Affair Officer with Unifly. They talk here with Unmanned Airspace’s Philip

“We will have automated operations within three years enabled by a UTM system” – Axel Knutsen, Avinor

February 26, 2021 Philip Butterworth-Hayes UTM industry-leader interview

Axel Knutsen is Vice President of Unmanned Traffic Management at Avinor Air Navigation Services in Norway, winner with industry partner Frequentis of the ATM/UTM integration award

“The idea that 5G can enable BVLOS missions is something of a myth” – Gokul Srinivasan

February 19, 2021 Philip Butterworth-Hayes UTM industry-leader interview

Gokul Srinivasan is the Technical Director at Robots Expert, a key player in research programmes such as 5G Drones and Gulf of Finland What is the potential for 5G in UAS

“Detect and Avoid is the next hurdle out there for BVLOS operations” – Bob Hammett, OneSky

January 25, 2021 Philip Butterworth-Hayes UTM industry-leader interview

‘This community is coming together to define a viable way forward’ Unmanned Airspace interviewed OneSky co-founders Bob Hammett and Chris Kucera about how they are

Space-based ADS-B – helping to integrate large UAS in controlled airspace

December 9, 2020 Philip Butterworth-Hayes UTM industry-leader interview

An interview with Don Thoma, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Aireon How can space-based Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) support drone operations? This will be driven by

Detect and avoid: how close are we to replacing the pilot as the last line of defence?

December 1, 2020 Philip Butterworth-Hayes UTM industry-leader interview

An interview with Jon Damush, CEO of Iris Automation, which is developing a range of machine-learning-based, optical detect and avoid systems for commercial drone operators

“DroneTalks: educating and informing drone industry experts and the wider ecosystem”

November 23, 2020 Philip Butterworth-Hayes UTM industry-leader interview

Eszter Kovács is the CEO and Founder of Manageld Ltd and DroneTalks.online, and Acting Secretary General of Global UTM Association What’s the aim of DroneTalks?