Iprosurv, the UK’s leading drone survey, inspection and mapping provider and ARPAS-UK Member, has secured Extended Visual Line of Sight permissions from the Civil Aviation Authority for its network of remote pilots. Standard aviation regulations insist that drones remain within the pilot’s sight at all times during flight which has historically limited flight distances to…
A ground-breaking new project announced today (30th July) will build and then demonstrate how Open-Access UTM (Unmanned Traffic Management) capability can support drone operations below 400ft. The Connected Places Catapult is bringing together a national and international consortium to develop a world leading Open-Access UTM framework for drones. The project, commissioned by the Department for…
London, UK: Altitude Angel, the world’s leading UTM (Unmanned Traffic Management) technology provider, today announced it is to join an international consortium comprising of tech start-ups and a world-renowned university research department to establish a corridor in the Midlands to enable medical & other deliveries via drones beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS). Skyfarer’s solution is a…
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ARPAS Member, Paul Cureton, drone pilot and Senior Lecturer in Design at Imagination Lancaster and member of the Data Science Institute, Lancaster University, UK, has published Drone Futures explores new paradigms in Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) in landscape and urban design. UAS or drones can be deployed with direct application to the built environment; this book…
ARPAS-UK is coordinating a National “COVID-19″ Drone Capability Taskforce for the drone industry. Behind the scenes we are working hard to push the capabilities of the drone industry and making sure that Government Departments are reminded of the expertise and capabilities of the Drone community in the UK. Whilst we are considering several areas where…
A pilot drone project to map the fast-growing Milton Keynes area is set to be put in place by the council. According to a report by the MKCitizen, the project has already mapped MK’s crematorium and new development Fairfields and Whitehouse. It reported on how council officers dealing with planning, landscaping, street naming and numbering,…
Regularly operating unmanned vehicles beyond the visual line of sight (BVLOS) of their operator is a key requirement to maximise the benefits that this technology can deliver. This new Innovation Hub guide introduces the fundamental principles of operating safely beyond visual line of sight, and describes the challenges that must be tackled in order to…
