The recent flurry of industry agreements signed by AirMap with Indra, Honeywell, Fortem – is this part of a wider strategy or a more pragmatic
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Category: UTM industry-leader interview
“DFS is planning to launch initial U-Space services via a new commercial company”
Thilo Vogt is Head of Unmanned Traffic Management Solutions at DFS Deutsche Flugsicherung When are we going to see the DFS UTM system in operation?
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“The flight of the drone itself is the least risky part of the process” – Maron Kristófersson, Aha
Maron Kristófersson is CEO of Icelandic delivery company Aha – and a global pioneer of operational, commercially successful urban air mobility programmes Can you give
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“How we achieved BVLOS authorisations around the globe”
Alexandre Habersaat is a software engineer with drone operator senseFly How were beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) regulatory requirement satisfied in: France, Spain,
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“Connecting ATM and UTM presents technical, regulatory and cultural conflicts” – Leslie Cary, ICAO
Leslie Cary is Chief, Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS) Section at the International Civil Aviation Organization What are the upcoming milestones within the ICAO work
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“Assistive technology for detection and airspace safety as well as training are critical to achieving safe BVLOS operations”
Diana Cooper is Senior Vice President of Policy & Strategy, PrecisionHawk Following on from your Pathfinder report to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), what further
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“The scope and guidelines for concurrent ATM/UTM operations are yet to be determined”
Jeff Poole is Director General of the Civil Air Navigation Services Organisation (CANSO) Current ANSP CNS/ATM systems are not generally suitable for UTM operations, which
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“In an urban, BVLOS-based drone eco-system machines will play a much larger role in regulating UTM”
Dr Tim McCarthy is a Senior Lecturer, Department of Computer Science, Maynooth University, Ireland The U-Flyte research programme (see box) has set itself many different
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“The real challenge of UTM is to define a single system with different users and communications methods”
Christian Struwe is Head of Public Policy Europe at DJI. DJI has its own UTM solution Aeroscope – what has been the market response to this?
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“We can get new BVLOS operations very inexpensively and very quickly up the air”- Thomas Swoyer, Grand Sky
In early August this year the Grand Sky commercial UAS research and development park, co-located with the Grand Forks (North Dakota) US Air Force Base,
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