Category Archives: BVLOS

Percepto Obtains BVLOS Exemption Denial from FAA

Autonomous inspection and monitoring solutions provider Percepto has announced a first-of-its-kind exemption denial from the Federal Aviation Administration. The FAA’s denial provides cause for the whole industry to celebrate, as for the first time it allows Percepto to operate Uncrewed Aircraft Systems (UAS) beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) without humans onsite, eliminating a burdensome exemption process that has been required to enable remote pre-flight check under Part 107. Continue reading →

Percepto Gets BVLOS Approval for Remote Inspections in Canada

Percepto, an autonomous inspection and monitoring solution provider, has announced that Transport Canada has approved Ontario Power Generation Inc. (OPG) to operate Percepto’s drone-in-a-box solution Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) at McConnell Lake Control Dam without a visual observer on site, a first in Canada. Continue reading →

Percepto Gets FAA Approval for BVLOS Operations at 200 Feet

Percepto, an autonomous inspection and monitoring solution provider, announced that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has allowed operators to use Percepto’s drone-in-a-box solution to perform highly automated Beyond Visual Line of Sight (HA BVLOS) inspection and monitoring operations at a large Texas solar power plant. Continue reading →

Turkey’s Fly BVLOS to Sell 30 VTOL Drones to Nigeria

Fly Bvlos Technology, a subsidiary of Coşkunöz Holding operating in Gebze Technical University Dronepark will sell thirty of it’s Delta Small Unmanned Aircraft to Nigeria. Continue reading →

French Lab Gets BVLOS Waiver for Flights Between Sites

Swiss-based RigiTech and France’s largest laboratory group Biogroup, have obtained flight authorisations to begin regular Beyond-Visual-Line-of-Sight (BVLOS) flights between Biogroup’s laboratories in Bourgoin-Jallieu and Tignieu-Jameyzieu. Continue reading →

American Water Earns FAA BVLOS Waiver

American Water, the nation’s largest publicly traded water and wastewater utility company, announced that it has been granted a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) waiver to fly Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS). Continue reading →

UK Sets Up BVLOS Operations Forum

Pioneering companies in the emerging uncrewed aviation industry have joined forces in a forum established by air traffic control leader NATS, to break through the barriers to the UK industry’s development. Continue reading →

Percheron and TC Energy Granted UAS BVLOS Waiver

Percheron partnered with TC Energy to execute an exploratory project investigating the process of obtaining a Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) waiver from the FAA, and the viability of executing BVLOS UAS flights in a real-world scenario along a pre-selected Right of Way in the Northeast. Continue reading →