Category Archives: Regulatory Matters

NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base, California, is leading a project designed to help integrate unmanned air vehicles into the National Airspace. Continue reading →

The third workshop in a five-part series of European Commission (EC) UAS Panel Workshops run jointly by the European Commission’s DG Mobility & Transport (MOVE) and DG Enterprise (ENTR) on the topic of insertion of UAS into European controlled airspace, will take place at Eurocontrol headquarters, 96 rue de la Fusée 96, Brussels, Belgium on 19 October 2011. Continue reading →

The programme director for University of North Dakota’s Center for Unmanned Aircraft Systems has been named to the newly launched North Dakota Airspace Integration Team. Continue reading →

This event took place at Eurocontrol Headquarters in Brussels, Belgium on 13 & 14 September 2011 and was attended by 212 persons (small & large industry: 42; military: 28; regulators: 69; research organization: 18; users: 35; various: 10). Continue reading →

On 25 August 2011, the national Czech UAS regulation was published in the Czech Republic. It will become effective on 1^st March 2012 so that the stakeholders are informed in advance of this general concise regulatory framework. Continue reading →

The over-arching objective is to allow the UAS operators to carry out useful commercial, public, or research flights of remotely piloted aircraft (RPA), without undue risk to other airspace users and people on the ground. I think that this objective will have broad public support. Continue reading →

Photo: Eurocontrol

Eurocontrol is taking the final regulatory steps towards becoming the network manager for the European ATM system, a role that will be crucial to the success of the Single European Sky (SES) effort.

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On 4 August 2011, the DGAC (French National Civil Aviation Authority) published the draft of two proposed decrees for public consultation: Continue reading →