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Last week, the EASA High Level Conference on Drones took place in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, as part of the Amsterdam Drone Week. At the «grand opening» of this event, Cora van Nieuwenhuizen, the Dutch Minister of Infrastructure & Water Management, and Violeta Bulc, European Commissioner of Transport, gave very lively and positive opening speeches. Continue reading
Automated drone startup Airobotics announced that it is the first company in the United States to receive a Certificate of Waiver (CoW) from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) that combines three elements: flying Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) for automated drone operations, over human beings, with a visual observer that is not required to keep a visual line of sight on the drone. Continue reading
Jay Merkle
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced that Jay Merkle, Deputy Vice President for the FAA Air Traffic Organization’s Program Management Office, will become the new head of UAS Integration. Continue reading
RPAS CivOps 2019, the 7th Annual European Civil RPAS Operators & Operations Forum, is taking place in Madrid, Spain on 23 & 24 January 2019. This event is coordinated with & hosted by AESA (The Spanish Aviation Safety & Security Agency). The RPAS CivOps 2019 web site has been redesigned & updated, and is now online. Continue reading
The number of requests for drone flights in Russia will skyrocket almost 16-fold against the level of 2015, chief executive of the State ATM Corporation of Russia Igor Moiseenko said last Friday at a meeting on digital development of the transport segment, chaired by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. Continue reading
Kenyan filmmakers will be allowed to use drones, Information Communication Technology Cabinet Secretary Joe Mucheru has announced. Mucheru says the move is part of government’s partnership with development partners to boost investment in the country’s film industry. Continue reading
Vantage Robotics has announced that the FAA has granted another waiver for using Snap in commercial operations over people. The Part 107.39 waiver granted to Rutherford County, Tennesee is a landmark first for a county government in the United States. Continue reading
