FAA Approves Drone as First Responder Program BVLOS Operations for Oswego City Police Department

uAvionix, a leading provider of command, navigation, and surveillance technologies for drones, today announced that the Oswego City Police Department’s Drone as a First Responder (DFR) program has received Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) approval for operations Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) without Visual Observers (VOs) using the uAvionix Casia G ground-based detect-and-avoid (DAA) system….

Introduction to Risk Quantification Summary & BVLOS SIG next steps: watch again

We ran out of time at the ARPAS-UK Annual Conference 2024 – due to some excellent discussions in previous sessions and weren’t able to run this session. We promised to run a webinar on Risk Quantification and the next steps for the BVLOS Special Interest Group and this is it. In addition the JARUS SORA…

OSC Success Stories: Quantification of ground risk for Overflight with Hexcam at the ARPAS-UK Annual Conference

Rowley Cory-Wright, Director at HexCam, dialed in to give his presentation on 18th April 2024 Presentation:

Gotonomi and Videosoft partner to simplify UAV live video streaming

Partnership will integrate satcom and ultra-low bandwidth video streaming solutions, enhancing BVLOS operations for UAV operators 18th April, UK: Gotonomi, a UAV satellite connectivity platform provider, and Videosoft, developers of video streaming solutions, today announced a partnership that will simplify video live-streaming over satellite for UAV operators. By integrating Videosoft’s low-bandwidth video software with Gotonomi’s Velaris Multi-Link…

uAvionix Awarded FAA Contract to Advance BVLOS Operations

uAvionix, a leader in avionics solutions for uncrewed and crewed aircraft, announced today that it has been awarded a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) contract to advance the commercial use of Uncrewed Aircraft Systems (UAS) in the National Airspace System (NAS). The contract aims to develop highly reliable Command and Control (C2)…

Pioneering simulations pave the way for routine drone flights in the UK

The prospect of remotely piloted drones operating in and out of some of the UK’s busiest airports has taken a step closer to reality following a series of pioneering simulations by the air traffic management service, NATS. The simulations, run at NATS’ head office in Hampshire, demonstrated how drones could be seamlessly integrated alongside other…

ARPAS-UK supports the introduction of Atypical Air Environments to unlock BVLOS opportunities.

Let’s each respond to the CAA’s consultation by April 2. ARPAS-UK supports the introduction of the Atypical Air Environment policy, as an incremental step to facilitate BVLOS operations in lower risk environment, where no another aircraft is expected to be, for example just above assets that are inspected. These will already unlock a lot of…

Future of Flight Action Plan Sky News interview

DfT published the Future of Flight Action Plan: Objective of BVLOS UAS operations in integrated airspace at scale in 2027

ARPAS-UK was one of the stakeholders involved in the co-design of the Future of Flight Action Plan and we support it. We have a collective roadmap that will help us shape the industry and take it to the next stage. It is the result of reasonable compromise among the parties, and now it is up…

AVSS: Parachute Recovery Systems and Flight Termination Systems as Means of Compliance to fly over uninvolved people or BVLOS: WATCH AGAIN

Work is ongoing in the UK, Europe and the US to determine the technical standards for systems such as parachutes and flight termination systems that will be accepted as Means of Compliance with safety requirements. Adding these systems to your drones would support OSC approval for higher safety risk operations, in particular to mitigate ground…

Navigating the Future of BVLOS Operations: Insights and Advocacy from the Heart of London

A Pivotal Gathering at the Department for Transport Recently, ARPAS-UK arranged a meeting at the Department for Transport (DfT) in London. Those who participated in the ARPAS-UK Risk Quantification Course were invited to share their views, which consisted of operators and service providers. Also in the room were the Regulator, and government bodies. The meeting’s agenda…