Other ARPAS-UK Posts

ICO: Does your Small Business need a Bespoke Privacy Notice

Short on time but need a bespoke privacy notice for your small organisation? The ICO can help you.  As a sole trader or small organisation you need a privacy notice to let your customers and suppliers, or staff and volunteers, know how you handle their information.  Good news. Creating a bespoke privacy notice for your…

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CHIRP Drone/UAS Feedback Edition 10

Expect the Unexpected! What could possible go wrong? Threat and Error Management (TEM) is a vital part of anticipating problems and ensuring safe operations. Welcome to Drone FEEDBACK Edition 10. I hope you have had some good winter flying for pleasure, gathering data of one sort or another or perhaps doing trials for medical deliveries….

ICO: Tech Horizons Report 2024

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) recently launched their 2024 Tech Horizons Report, including a chapter on the commercial use of drones. Dr Anna Jackman of the University of Reading, an ARPAS-UK Member, was one of the academic experts to be interviewed in relation to this. In their first annual Tech horizons report, published in 2022,…

Royal Air Force Autonomous Collaborative Platform Strategy

The Royal Air Force’s (RAF’s) intent for use of Autonomous Collaborative Platforms (ACP) in the Air domain. The Defence Drone Strategy provides the core reference baseline for the RAF ACP Portfolio ensuring coherence for the introduction of new developments in capability, supported by lessons learnt in our recent past and in current conflicts. Advances in…

Changes Coming at Companies House

The Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act received royal assent on 26 October 2023.   The act gives Companies House the power to play a more significant role in tackling economic crime and supporting economic growth. Over time, the measures will lead to improved transparency and more accurate and trusted information on their registers.   There’ll be…

MOD Defence Drone Strategy

The return of war to Europe has demonstrated the essential requirement for a resilient, robust and agile approach to Defence procurement. The Integrated Review Refresh and Defence Command Paper recognise this challenge and underline the importance of overhauling our acquisition system to ensure operational advantage. The conflict in Ukraine has become a very visible representation…

Women in Aviation & Aerospace Charter

With International Women’s Day – 8 March 2024 – on the horizon, we thought this a good opportunity to remind our members and the wider drone industry of who and what the Women in Aviation and Aerospace Charter is. The Charter was founded in 2018 at the Farnborough International Airshow with over 200 companies committing…

Department for Transport

DfT Aviation Ambassadors Announced 2024-26

The Aviation Ambassadors Group works with the Department for Transport to help deliver a skilled, diverse and sustainable aviation workforce fit to seize the opportunities of the future. This newly announced cohort will be in action for the next two years, rather than one year, as previously. The group helps meet the goals of the Generation…

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CHIRP UAS/Drone Feedback Edition 9

Sometimes it’s easy to get absorbed in the task and lose sight of what’s around Welcome to Drone FEEDBACK Edition 9. Winter is upon us. Whilst the period since our last meeting in July has offered some ideal weather for Drone-based data scanning, as well as Drone transport trials, the winter months will provide some…

Emergency Drone Responder: Issue 6

In this issue EDR offers a wide variety of excellent articles that support EDR’s mission to promote the worldwide sharing of knowledge… They would like to thank The British Transport Police, Vendelin Clicques, DroneSense, The I.E.D.O, Excelerate Group, Dr Anna Jackman, JOUAV, Heliguy™, Venari, DroneControl, Smith Myers, Andrew Black and Scott Mlakar for their invaluable…