ARPAS-UK runs a BVLOS (Beyond Visual Line of Sight) Technical Special Interest Group (SIG) for its Members. It is evident that there is no one solution and the SIG will explore various ideas and topics relating to BVLOS and how it might work in the UK from an industry point of view.
ARPAS-UK is also involved with the NATS BVLOS Forum, an industry led group convened by NATS. We attend to represent all members who wish to fly BVLOS in the future, but also as a means to support future Associate members with dissemination of discussions and to feedback members’ viewpoints.
BVLOS SIG
Information, news and events specifically relating to the ARPAS-UK BVLOS Special Interest Group.
- Protected: ARPAS-UK BVLOS SIG In Person Event: 26 November 2024
- ARPAS-UK BVLOS SIG Manifesto
- Protected: Risk and BVLOS – The Insurers View: WATCH AGAIN
- Protected: Our response to CAA’s consultation on Detect and Avoid policy – MEMBERS ONLY
- Protected: ARPAS-UK launches BVLOS SIG Manifesto and SIG Launch Event
- Introduction to Risk Quantification Summary & BVLOS SIG next steps: watch again
- ARPAS-UK supports the introduction of Atypical Air Environments to unlock BVLOS opportunities.
- Navigating the Future of BVLOS Operations: Insights and Advocacy from the Heart of London
- Risk Quantification Courses Success
- BVLOS Risk Quantification Courses: NOW OPEN
- BVLOS Technical SIG Meeting: Insights and Plans
- BVLOS Technical Special Interest Group Launch: 6 Sept 2023
- Aerofirm & ARPAS-UK successful in Future Flight: Closing the Skills Gap Funding Bid
BVLOS and ARPAS-UK Members
Read more about how ARPAS-UK Members are working on implementing BVLOS operations in the UK.
- BT: Fly smarter: The game-changing impact of 4G on drones
- Protected: Our response to CAA’s consultation on Detect and Avoid policy – MEMBERS ONLY
- uAvionix FlightLine Surveillance Services Demonstrated Within Volant Autonomy’s Integrated Traffic Management
- UK’s first permanent vertiport unveiled at Snowdonia Aerospace Centre
- Project BLUEPRINT trials lay groundwork for open-architecture UK UTM system
- FAA Approves Drone as First Responder Program BVLOS Operations for Oswego City Police Department
- OSC Success Stories: Quantification of ground risk for Overflight with Hexcam at the ARPAS-UK Annual Conference
- Gotonomi and Videosoft partner to simplify UAV live video streaming
- uAvionix Awarded FAA Contract to Advance BVLOS Operations
- Pioneering simulations pave the way for routine drone flights in the UK
- BVLOS Sandbox Trials to make BVLOS an Everyday Reality
- BT Launches UK’s First Drone SIM to Revolutionise UAV Connectivity
- Delivering UAS BVLOS flight in non-segregated airspace using aviation-grade Command & Control: WATCH AGAIN
- BT Group and SkyLift Achieve Milestones in UK Drone Operations: Advanced Communication and Safety Systems for Scalable BVLOS Missions
- Is Detect and Avoid Possible Without Weighing Down Drones with Expensive Sensors? WATCH AGAIN
- sees.ai secures UK-first routine BVLOS permission to carry out aerial inspection of live overhead powerline assets
BVLOS and the wider Drone Industry
Information, news and events relating to BVLOS from the wider Drone Industry.
- CAA BVLOS Roadmap Launched at DroneX 2024
- DfT published the Future of Flight Action Plan: Objective of BVLOS UAS operations in integrated airspace at scale in 2027
- AVSS: Parachute Recovery Systems and Flight Termination Systems as Means of Compliance to fly over uninvolved people or BVLOS: WATCH AGAIN
- CAA: BVLOS Within Atypical Air Environments – podcast & consultation
- CAA Launches New UAS Integration Sandbox
- CAA: New study on Electronic Conspicuity published by aviation regulator
- Protected: NPAS & BVLOS Tender
- Key industry players forming the BVLOS Forum, led by NATS and including ARPAS-UK, call on government to unlock the next generation of aviation
- Protected: NATS BVLOS Forum #7 (MEMBERS ONLY)
- BVLOS Operations Forum Press Release