The Ventura County Sheriff’s Office in California has applied for a Certificate of Authorization (COA) through the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to allow training flights of an Unmanned Aircraft System. Continue reading
Category Archives: Regulatory Matters
“The Role of UAS Research is to Inform Policy”
“If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn’t be research,” quipped Dr. Kelvin Droegemeier, Vice-President for Research at the University of Oklahoma and a member of the National Science Board, as he quoted Albert Einstein during the Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Summit in Norman, Oklahoma, this week. Continue reading
UAS “Accommodated” – Not Integrated into US National Airspace – FAA Official
UAS manufacturers and users need to be patient while the Federal Aviation Administration goes through the steps to get them safely and properly into the air, an aviation official told industry watchers on Tuesday at a meeting organised by the AIAA in Ventura County, California. Continue reading
FAA Announces Public Meeting on Privacy Policy for UAS Test Site Programme
The FAA will be holding a public engagement session on Wednesday, April 3, 2013, on the proposed privacy policy approach for the unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) test site programme. Continue reading
FAA Map Shows Distribution of UAS Test Site Applicants
The FAA map shows distribution of UAS test site applications across the United States. Click on it to see full size version. Continue reading
New Mexico State University Partners with AeroVironment for Study on UAS into NAS Integration at Night
New Mexico State University’s Physical Science Laboratory has partnered with AeroVironment to study the safety of small, unmanned aircraft system operations at night in the National Airspace System. Study results strongly indicate nighttime operations of unmanned aircraft systems are safe, maybe even more so than daytime operations. Continue reading
Spanish CAA Announces its Plans for RPAS Regulation
The third meeting of EUROCAE WG93 on Light RPAS took place in Madrid, Spain on 13 and 14 March 2013 and was hosted by AESA, the Spanish Civil Aviation Authority (CAA). Continue reading
Integrating RPAS into Civil Airspace
On 12 March 2013, a free workshop entitled “Integrating RPAS into Civil Airspace”, that had been organized by UVS International, took place at ATC Global 2013 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The workshop room was nearly filled to capacity and a good number of lively panel discussions took place. Continue reading