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Category: UTM industry-leader interview

“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

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“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

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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

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“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

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“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

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“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

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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

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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

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“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?

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“It’s not only a drone, not only a box, it’s also an autonomous airport”

October 29, 2020 Philip Butterworth-Hayes UTM industry-leader interview

Nicolas Billecocq is Chief Operating Officer of Azur Drones, a pioneer of autonomous, drone-in-a-box security solutions What is Azur Drones doing that is so different

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A report not getting enough attention.
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Un updated overview of low-altitude traffic programmes in China – province by province https://www.unmannedairspace.info/uncategorized/un-updated-overview-of-low-altitude-traffic-programmes-in-china-province-by-province/

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27 Oct

Will new US state policies on AAM strangle or accelerate the USA’s eVTOL industry? https://www.urbanairmobilitynews.com/emerging-regulations/will-new-us-state-policies-on-aam-strangle-or-accelerate-the-usas-evtol-industry/

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27 Oct

Supporting Drone Strategy 2.0: SESAR U-space research reaches end of the beginning https://www.unmannedairspace.info/uncategorized/supporting-drone-strategy-2-0-sesar-u-space-research-reaches-end-of-the-beginning/

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Florida DOT publishes its AAM network development plan https://www.urbanairmobilitynews.com/new-city-projects/florida-dot-publishes-its-aam-network-development-plan/

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Norway opens U-space sandbox trials next month – “full commercial operations in 2026” https://www.unmannedairspace.info/uncategorized/norway-opens-u-space-sandbox-trials-next-month-full-commercial-operations-in-2026/

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