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Getting closer to urban and BVLOS operations –reflections from recent flight testing at Cardiff and Heathrow airports – WATCH AGAIN

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 undertaken both landside and airside at Heathrow and Cardiff Airports to measure wind. We will briefly talk about the results on understanding differences in wind measurements using our drone and anemometers, which we presented to the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences meeting in Stockholm in September last year.

Speakers Info:

Chris Daniels, CCO, Flare Bright
Carl Sequeira, Head of Engineering, Flare Bright

Chris Daniels

CCO, Flare Bright

Chris Daniels is a strategic advisor on commercializing start-ups and scale-ups, focused on aerospace & defence and Machine Learning and Big Data Tech.

Carl Sequeira is a Chartered Engineer with
the IMechE since 2015. He is a multi-disciplinary engineer with commercial and academic research expertise spanning aerodynamics, modeling and simulation, design and testing, and device performance.

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Distant Clouds – Drone Flying on a Remote UK Overseas Territory – WATCH AGAIN

Flying a drone in a remote South Atlantic island has its challenges. Ben Sansom will give a talk about the use of drones on the UK Overseas Territory of St Helena and how they are being used to make decisions and to help save the island’s unique habitat.

Speaker:

Ben Sansom

Director, Arctium Ltd

Ben Sansom is a water resource consultant with over 25 years experience and has been using drones for environment projects since 2016.
He is currently working in Kenya, Barbuda and St Helena with colleagues from the RSPB, UK Met Office, UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, FCDO and the Governments of St Helena and Antigua and Barbuda.

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March 24 2023 Drone Related Jobs

Disclaimer: All jobs posted here are from LinkedIn and other job sites including member and non-member organizations.

HexCam is looking to hire for the position of Business Administrator / Junior Drone Pilot.

ISS Aerospace is looking to hire Graphic Designer & PR/Branding Specialist.

Dronamics is hiring for the position of Engineering Director.

Altitude Angel is hiring for the following positions:

Customer Success Manager
Senior Systems Engineer

Pix4D is hiring for the position of Business Development Executive.

StreetDrone is hiring for the position of Design Engineer.

WRc, part of RSK Group is seeking an Inspection Engineer to join their Non-Destructive Testing & Inspection team (NDTi).

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Stuart Keenan made Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society

We are pleased to announce that our previous Chair ARPAS-UK, Stuart Keenan, of ARPAS-UK Member Frazer-Nash Consultancy has recently been awarded the grade of Fellow by the Royal Aeronautical Society (RAeS), the highest grade attainable by the organisation.

Stuart said, “It is a great honour to be recognised by the RAeS for my achievements, particularly around the excellent cutting-edge drone development work my team has been involved with over recent years. This includes the development of novel UAS concepts as well as enabling future drone use cases by pushing the boundaries of regulation whilst remaining acceptably safe.”

Congratulations Stuart on this fantastic achievement!

Stuart is the Head of Unmanned Air Systems at Frazer-Nash Consultancy, and his vision is for drones to be commonplace in a way that safely benefits society. Stuart’s area helps organisations to make the most of drones, with 2 key focus areas: drone consultancy services, and the manufacture of bespoke drone systems for niche customer use cases.

Stuart is a CAA qualified SUAS pilot, and the SUAS Accountable Manager for his company, as well as being the UAS technical expert for safety and regulation. Under Stuart’s leadership, the Frazer-Nash drone business has grown in under 5 years from very little to a turnover of £multi-millions, and he is now leading activity to allow Frazer-Nash’s expertise to benefit the exciting growth areas of UAM and UTM.

Stuart has a background in aviation safety, developed during his 16-year career as an RAF engineer officer, which culminated in him designing, developing and introducing the Air Safety Information Management System (ASIMS) across the whole of the UK military air domain – ASIMS has become the tool which has underpinned significant increases in air safety performance standards across Defence aviation.

Stuart is a chartered engineer and a Member of the Royal Aeronautical Society, and has a BEng(Hons) Aeronautical Engineering degree from Loughborough University, as well as a Master of Business Administration degree from Cranfield University.

March 2023

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Engaging with Local Authorities – S4G Drone Services: ARPAS-UK Annual Conference, March 2023

with Mark Elliott of Sparks4Growth and Sunil Budheo, Transport Innovation Manager of Coventry City Council

Mark Elliott, CEO of S4G Drone Services, tells us how they transformed the engagement with an initially uncertain and concerned local council by demonstrating professionalism, safety and demonstrating the value of the data collected and digital output. Mark also shares the challenge of identifying bylaws, and understanding to what extent they are aligned with the RPAS regulations and apply.

Unfortunately we had issues with Sunil’s access on the day, but the presentation is here.

Sunil-Urban-Air-Mobility-AA Download

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DARTeC at Cranfield University: overview and update

Professor Graham Braithwaite, Director, Transport Systems at Cranfield University introduces us to DARTeC and its fantastic facilities.

DARTeC is focused on advancing the application and integration of innovative digital systems technologies within the commercial air transport sector.

DARTeC aims to address the research challenges facing the aviation industry such as:

the integration of drones into civilian airspace;
increasing the efficiency of airports through technological advances;
creating safe, secure shared airspace through secure data communication infrastructures;
increasing the reliability and availability of aircraft utilising self-sensing/aware and self-healing/repair technologies.

ARPAS-UK-Prof-Braithwaite-presentation Download

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Lessons learnt by Consortiq on applying the SORA methodology

Andy Huggett and Chris Janes, Training Managers at Consortiq, explained to us the basics of the SORA methodology, how it can be a very powerful tool for complex operations, and how new PDRAs, possibly following SORA, could be a good way forward for the not-so-complex operations.

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Lessons learnt by Airborne Robotics on BVLOS operations in Austria

Alexander Fraess-Ehrfeld, CEO at Airborne Robotics, walked us through the approval process on a practical flight operation to deliver a defibrillator, following the SORA methodology.

And the presentation:

Airborne-Robotics-BVLOS Download

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March 17 2023 Drone Related Jobs

Disclaimer: All jobs posted here are from LinkedIn and other job sites including member and non-member organizations.

Research Associate to ‘Droned Life: Data, Narrative, and the Aesthetics of Worldmaking’.

An exciting opportunity to join a multi-year interdisciplinary project on unmanned technologies, culture, and aesthetics funded by UKRI, hosted by the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence at the University of Cambridge.

BT Group is hiring a Senior Technology Product Manager – Drones.

Thales is looking to hire UAS Flight Test Engineer.

Animal Dynamics Ltd is hiring for the position of Senior Mechanical Design Engineer.

BATCAM is looking for a Broadcast Engineer.

Callen-Lenz Associates Ltd is looking for a System Engineer.

Archangel Imaging is hiring for the following positions:
UAV Flight Trials Manager
Autopilot Engineer (UAV)

CMS Distribution is hiring for the position of Business Development Manager-Enterprise Drones.

Flare Bright is looking for a Software Engineering Manager.

Celestial is looking for an Animation Supervisor.

Databuzz Ltd is looking to hire Geospatial Data Analyst.

Skyports is looking for Flight Operations Remote Pilot.

Ernest Gordon Recruitment Ltd is hiring for the following positions:

Software Manager – Embedded (Drones, Defence)
Assembly Technician (Drones)
Robotics Engineer (Drones)

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Emergency Drone Responder E-Magazine #2

March 2023 saw the launch of the new Emergency Drone Responder E-Magazine. It is packed full of information for those in the Emergency Services, with articles, thought-pieces, advice and product information.

ARPAS-UK is delighted that Graham Brown, Chair of ARPAS-UK, and Phil Hicks of Pravo Consulting were involved in this first issue. Check out page 15: Cleared for Action

https://emergencydroneresponder.com/issues/march-2023/

1 March 2023