The International Advanced Robotics Programme (IARP) RISE-ER’2013, the 7th international workshop on robotics for risky environments, will take place within the framework of the 6th St.-Petersburg International Innovation Forum in Saint-Petersburg, Russian Fed. on 1-3 October 2013. Continue reading
Author Archives: Peter van Blyenburgh
Spanish CAA Announces its Plans for RPAS Regulation
The third meeting of EUROCAE WG93 on Light RPAS took place in Madrid, Spain on 13 and 14 March 2013 and was hosted by AESA, the Spanish Civil Aviation Authority (CAA). Continue reading
Integrating RPAS into Civil Airspace
On 12 March 2013, a free workshop entitled “Integrating RPAS into Civil Airspace”, that had been organized by UVS International, took place at ATC Global 2013 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The workshop room was nearly filled to capacity and a good number of lively panel discussions took place. Continue reading
Integrating RPAS Into European Civil Airspace
In mid 2013, the European Commission’s European regulatory roadmap relative to the incremental integration of remotely piloted aircraft systems (RPAS) into the current European civil airspace environment will be published. Continue reading
UVS International Announces Board of Director Changes
At UVS International’s General Assembly, which took place at the Royal Military Academy in Brussels, Belgium on 12 February 2013, three new corporate member representatives were voted unanimously onto the association’s Board of Directors. Continue reading
European RPAS Steering Group Work: First Tangible Result-Call for proposals of RPAS Demonstrations
In the framework of the European Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems Steering Group (“ERSG”), established by the European Commission in 2012, there is the need to identify, plan, coordinate, and subsequently monitor the activities necessary to achieve the safe integration of Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (“RPAS”) into the non-segregated Air Traffic Management (“ATM”) environment. Continue reading
UVS International Announces Its RPAS Events for 2013
Within the framework of its Global Access Initiative, UVS International is (co)organizing 5 remotely piloted aircraft systems events in 2013, namely: Continue reading
ENAC Invites Comments on Draft RPAS Regulation
On 24 December 2012, ENAC, the Italian civil aviation authority, published a draft of its RPAS regulation on its web site, and invited the RPAS community and other interested aviation stakeholders to supply their comments on this document. Continue reading