Aerofirm and ARPAS-UK are delighted to announce they have been awarded funding as part of the Future Flight Challenge: Closing the Skills Gap competition. The project concerns the quantification of risks within complex drone operations, where there is currently a skills gap within the industry. Whilst this approach is used in other sectors, such as…
BT Group and, esteemed ARPAS-UK member SkyLift, recently achieved significant milestones in the field of drone operations in the UK. They successfully conducted demonstration flights utilising fellow ARPAS-UK Member, uAvionix’s SkyLine cloud-based command and control (C2) system, which communicated over C-Band and LTE. These flights accomplished two firsts for the UK’s unmanned aerial system (UAS)…
True Beyond visual line-of-sight (BVLOS) will take off when technologies that make this possible come at an acceptable size, weight, power and cost (SWAP-C). The toughest technological challenge on the way to UAV autonomy is last resort tactical airspace deconfliction by means of onboard sensing, also known as Detect and Avoid (DAA). Join us to…
Boeing-backed autonomous flight technology developer, sees.ai, becomes the first company in the UK to secure routine permission from the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) to fly drones Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) in non-segregated airspace, on the high voltage electricity transmission network. This permission builds on the BVLOS permission that sees.ai received in April 2021…
Flare Bright has undertaken several trials under the UKRI Future Flight programme and the Connected Places Catapult Future of Air Mobility Accelerator. This webinar explains some of the learnings from flying its software-enhanced IMUs (giving GPS-free capability and redundancy) in various UK locations; and validating wind measurement predictions using its nanodrone. Flight tests have been…
The UK’s leading drone operators have called on the Government to change the way uncrewed aviation is regulated, and break down the barriers to uncrewed flight that risk the UK missing out on the ‘drone opportunity’. The comments come in a new White Paper published by the BVLOS Operations Forum, a consortium of advanced drone…
An overview of the main benefits of using fuel cells to power UAVs in different commercial applications. This will include commercial and technical benefits, and a comparison between fuel cells and competing technologies (batteries and IC engines). Speaker Info: Andy Kelly Intelligent Energy Head of Product Line Andy Kelly is responsible for IE-SOAR products, Intelligent…
A discussion on the challenges faced by drone operators in the UK with regard to BVLOS development, how the Snowdonia Aerospace Centre can help members accelerate their BVLOS capability, and how best to prepare for a BVLOS flight test campaign. Speaker Info: Jeremy Howitt Snowdonia Aerospace Future Flight Lead Jeremy has a 35-year career in…
Micro Radar are becoming available for Drones, allowing all-weather, long-range detection of obstacles. But there are multiple other uses for these software configurable Radar, High precision measurement of landing pads for autonomous control; finding a journey endpoint within centimetres, without GNSS; and assured positioning while a drone surveys infrastructure. Both technology insights and practical use…
